OMALIDjE. OMALIUM. 347 



testaceous-redj the penultimate eegment dusky : legs lafO'testaceous : an- 

 tennae the same. 

 The abdomen is sometimes entirely pitchy ; and the elytra are oecasionally 

 dusky at the suture, or nearly black. 



Taken near London ; also in Norfolk and Suffolk. 



Sp. 3. concinnum. Nigrum, nitidiusculum, punctulatum, subpuhescens, antennisy 

 ore, elytris pedibusqueferrugineis. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 



Sta. concinnus. Mar sham. — Om. concinnum. Sieph. Catal. 297 . JVo. 3257 . 



Black, rather shining, slightly pubescent, thickly punctured : head with a fovea 

 on each side between the eyes : mouth rust-coloured : thorax slightly convex, 

 the hinder angles acute, the disc with an obscure fovea: elytra dull ferru- 

 ginous, thickly punctured : abdomen black, shining : legs ferruginous : an- 

 tenncE short, also Jerruginous. 



Taken within the metropolitan district; also in Norfolk and Suffolk, 

 and in other parts of the country, apparently not very common. 

 " Not uncommon on the sand-hills (near Swansea.)"" — L. W. Dill- 

 wyn, Esq. 



Sp. 4. brunnipes. Nigrum, nitidum, subtilissime punctulatum, abdomine piceo, 

 segmentorum marginibus anoque rufo-piceis, pedibus brunneis. (Long. corp. 

 1^ lin.) 



Om. brunnipes. Steph. Catal. 297. No. 3258. 



Black, shining, very finely and thickly punctured : head broad, distinctly fo- 

 veated between the eyes : mouth pitchy : thorax with the disc slightly con- 

 vex, and with a faint dorsal channel, the hinder angles rounded, not promi- 

 nent : elytra deep black, very finely, but thickly punctured : abdomen pitchy, 

 with the margins of the segments and the apex pitchy-rec?, the latter palest : 

 legs brown : antennae dusky-brown, with the base pale. 



!My specimens were taken near Dover in June. " In boleti, 

 Oakhampton, Somersetshire." — Dr. Leach. 



Sp. 5. moniliconie. Nigrum, depressum, antennis extrorsum monilijbrmibus 

 basi, ore pedibusque rufis, thorace bifoveolato, elytris piceis. (Long. corp. 

 li lin.) 



Om. monilicorne. Gyllenhall. — Steph. Catal. 297. No. 3259. 



Depressed, black, shining, glabrous: head rather sparingly punctured, with 

 four larger excavations placed tetragonally; eyes black: mouth and palpi 

 testaceous: thorax with the hinder angles straight, the lateral margins ex- 

 panded, the disc flat, pitchy, thickly punctured, with two oblong, nearly 

 parallel, obscure, fovea: in the middle, towards the hinder margin : chjlra 



