OMALID/E. OMALIUM. 351 



Sta. floralis. Paykull—Om. florale. Staph. Catal. 297. No. 3267. 



Pitchy-h\ac^, glabrous, shining : head narrower than the thorax, punctured, 

 with four larger punctures between the eyes, which latter are prominent : 

 mouth red: thorax of a cordate-subquadrate form, the sides slightly mar- 

 gined and the disc very finely punctured : elytra about twice as long as the 

 thorax, finely punctured, the punctures faintly disposed in strice, and beneath 

 the lens somewhat rugged, on the suture a common depression : abdomen as 

 long as the elytra, faintly punctured: legs reddish: tarsi slighilj dilated : 

 antennae black : palpi black. 



Elytra sometimes pitchy or brown : and the apex of the antennae occasionally 

 testaceous. 



Common within the metropolitan district, near Hertford, Ripley, 

 &c.; also in Suffolk, Norfolk, Devonshire, Somersetshire, &c. "Not 

 unfrequent (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dillwyn^ Esq. " Cramond." 

 Rev. W. Little. 



Sp. 15. Viburni. Nigrum nitidum, ore pedibusque ftiscescentibus, thorace suh~ 

 foveolato, elytris nigricantibus autfuscis. (Long. corp. If lin.) 



Om. Viburni. Gravenhorst, Mi. 117. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 108. 



Black, shining, punctured: head finely punctured, with four larger impressions, 

 placed two between the eyes and two between the antennae : mouth reddish : 

 eyes prominent, black : thorax slightly convex, finely punctured, with two 

 obsc7ire foveae at the base, opposite to the scutellum : elytra dusky or brown, 

 sometimes pitchy, punctured, the punctures somewhat ruggedly impressed : 

 abdomen short, obtuse, finely punctured : legs ipitchj-testaceous, with the 

 femora dusky : antennae black. 



Found in Battersea-fields ; also in Devonshire. 



Sp. 16. Salicis. Nigrum, nitidum, subdepressum, profunda punctatum, antennis 

 pedibusque rufo-testaceis, thorace bijbveolato, elytris punctato-striatis. (Long. 

 Corp. 1^ — 2 lin.) 



Om. Salicis. Gyllenhall— Steph. Catal. 297. No. 3268. 



Black, shining, slightly depressed, rather deeply punctured : headless deeply 

 punctured, with two oblique foveae on the crown and two oblong curved 

 ones between the antennae, nearly united to the former: mouth rufous: 

 thorax rather widest in front, moderately convex, with the lateral margins 

 sometimes pitchy ; the disc with two rather deep, slightly henifovew, placed 

 before the scutellum : elytra twice as long as the thorax, slightly convex, 

 somewhat x&g\x\&x]j punctate-striute, especially towards the suture: abdomen 

 finely punctured, the margins broadly elevated: legs ferruginous ; antenna; 

 the same ; rather dusky at the apex. 



