Oxytelus. ¥ * 795 



gustatus, lateribus et basi leviter rotundatus, antice late leviter emarginatus, 

 angulis anterioribus acutis, posterioribus obtusis, subrotundatis, subdepressus, 

 confertim rugoso -punctatus, dorso trisulcatus, sulcis omnibus obsoletioribus, 

 utrinque late leviter irnpressus. Elytra thorace paulo longiora, depressa, 

 confertim punctata, dense longitudinaliter rugulosa, fusca, disco fusco-testa- 

 cea. Abdomen supra densius subtiliter punctatum. Pedes piceo-testacei. 



Abdominis segmentum inferius septimum maris late emarginatum, fe- 

 minae apice medio leviter productum. 



Obs. O. nitidulo magnitudine aequalis, at paulo latior, punctura multo cre- 

 briore, thoracis sulcis omnrbus obsoletis, corpore supra fere opaco drstinctus. 



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* 18. O. nitidulus: Niger, nitidulus, elytris piceis, pedibus tesfaceis, capite 



thoraceque crebrius punctatis, subtililer rugulosis, hoc trisulcalo, fronte 

 antice subimpressa, laevi. — Long. 1 — 1-j lin. 



Grav. Micr. 107. 8. Mon. 186 4. — Lafr. Hist nat. Crust. et Ins. IX. 364. 8. — 



Oliv. Encycl. meth. VIII. 613. 4. — Panz. Faun. Germ. 104. 13. — Gyll. Ins. 



Suec. II 458. 12. — Sahlb. Ins. Fenn. 1. 416. 15. — Zetterst. Faun. Lappon. 



I. 93. 3. Ins. Lappon. 73. 3. — Mannerh. Brachelytr. 48. 7. — Boisd. et Lacord. 



Faun. Ent. Paris. I. 464. 5. — Runde Brachelytr. Hal. 20. 5. — Er. Col. March. 



I. 594. 9. 

 S taph. piceus Schrank Enum. Ins. Austr. 236. 449. Fa&n. Boic. I. 647.885. 

 Staph. piceus, var. pygmaea Payk. Faun. Suec. III. p. 384. 



Oxyt. rugulosus Say Transact. Amer. Philosoph. Soc. Philudelph. Nov. Ser. IV. 

 460. 2. — Harris Transact. Nat. Hist. Soc. Hartfort I. 69. 6. 



Habitat in Europa frequens, in Aegypto, Dom. Prof. Ehrenberg, in 

 America septentrionali, Dom. Zimmermann, in Mexico sec. Say. 



Minutus, niger, nitidulus. Antennae capite sesqui longiores, articulo 

 tertio secundo paulo minore, apicem versus sensiur subincrassatae, articulis 

 ultimis tribus maioribus, nigrae. Mandibulae et palpi picei. Caput maris 

 thoracis magnitudine, feminae eodem paulo minus, minus confertim puncta- 

 tum, longitudinaliter strigosum, fronte inter oculos transversim impressa, 

 clypei spatio impresso, laevi, in utroque latere profundius longitudinaliter 

 impresso vel late sulcato. Thorax coleopterorum prope latitudine, latitudine 

 plus dimidio brevior, basin versus leviter angustatus, lateribus et basi levi- 

 ter rotundatrs, angulis posterioribus obtusis, subdepressus, sat crebre for- 

 titerque punctatus, longitudinaliter subrugulosus, dorso trisulcatus, sulco 

 intermedio sat profundo, integro, exterioribus obsoletioribus, subarcuatis, 

 utrinque late impressus, margine laterali integerrimo. Elytra thorace sesqui 

 longiora, creberrime punctata, longitudinaliter substrigosa, fusco-picea. Ab- 

 douren supra parce subtilissime punctatum. Pedes testacei. 



Abdominis segmentum sextum inferius maris apice leviter emarginatum. 



Obs. Oxyt. pedicellus Grav. Micr. 102. 2. Mon. 185. 2. — Latr. Hist. 

 nat. Crust. et Ins. IX. 362. 2. — Oliv. Encycl. meth. VUI. 613. 2, mihi omnino 

 dubius, forte ab hac specie haud distinctus, at tjpo perdrto nunquam extricandus. 



* 19. O. complanatus: Niger, opacus, pedibus testaceis, elytris fuscis^his, 



capite thoraceque ^ubtilissime longitudinaliter strigosis, thorace trisulcato, 

 angulis anterioribus acutiusculis. — Long. 1| lin. 



Er. Col March. I. 595. 10. 



