OPA 
were entirely — ae None of them appeared 
6’. E. long. 21 
to be tattooed. 
OPATCHIN, a os of Kamt{chatka ; 30 miles from 
sae fk. 
PATOW, a town of Poland, in bi palatinate of 
Pits 3; 16 miles W.N.W., of Sando 
O RUM, in Entomology, a_genus a infe€is of the 
order Coleoptera, the generic charaCter of whichis: Antenne 
moniliform, thicker towards the tip; the head is projecting 
rom a Cavity in the thorax ; the thorax is a httle re paaii 
and margine ed; thells emarginate, longer than the abdo 
There are twenty- eight {pecies fcattered over the cis, 
of which only is common to our own country, to Harpe 
at large, and a America. 
ae 
3 fhells with three 
It res tah, and is larger 
Griseum. Cinereous; thor 
raifed lines, toothed behind. 
— in as fum 
Gre rey; thorax plane ; thells grooved, with 
riled black dots between the grooves. It inhabits Bar- 
the fhells have 
It 
sum. This is a brown infe& ; 
three indented raifed li ane the thorax is emarginate. 
inhabits Europe and Americ 
Grssum. Black ; thells ne numerous obfolete raifed 
It inhabits Sweden, on fand banks. 
. Black; the fhield is pitchy before; the 
fhells are fubftriate. It inhabits New Holland 
Crenatum. Black; thorax with a crenate edge, th 
fore angle projeGting, the hind one fpinous ; a7 with cre- 
nate ftrie. It inhabits Paha on fandy plains. 
{mooth and 
GLABRATUM. 3 thorax an 
cinereous. oa is found i in the Eaft Indies, and is the fize of 
the Sabulof 
RENARIUM. Grey; fhells ftriate. It is found at the 
Cape of Good Ho 
oe 
LATHRATUM. Black; fhells with punctured ftrie. It 
inhabits Cayenne. 
LAGUM. Dept refled, black, opaque; fhells ftriate, 
{mooth. It inhabits Siberia 
RANULATUM. Black; edge of the thorax fomewhat 
refic&ted ; the fhells have three raifed lines, the interftices 
pun red ed. ES _ the fandy plains of Barbary. 
Cinereous ; ae and fhells rugged; fore- 
thanks diated, Gane ‘It is found in the fandy plains 
of 
Tis Black; fhells punétured, a little rugged ; fore 
thanks eo at the bafe. 
OPE 
emarginate, poe at the corvers behind; the fhells are 
ery Imooth; the tarfi are three-jointed. It inhabits Ger- 
ue and like the Melinum is of a doubtful gen 
ONILICORNE. Brown; thorax and fhells villous. 
inhabits —— 
ILPHOIDE. Black, {mooth ; thorax dilated backwards s 
thells as punctured trie 2 nd two fulvous bands. It is 
found on the oak fun 
It 
» hairy; thorax fub-cylindric, 
emarginate with a 2 ho llow a the middle; the two laf 
joints of the Te diftant and larger: 
IPU UM. ; thorax fab- cylindric, emar- 
oe ate, with a hollows; the two laft joints of the an- 
tennz diftant and larger 
Terstaceum. This teftaceous infect; the eyes, 
thorax, fhells, and met are brown, the latter rufous at 
the bafe and tip; fhells with a large teftaceous lunule at the 
bafe; thorax with two imprefled dots. It inhabits Europe; 
fhells ss and ftriate. 
Brunneum. Reddifh-brown with yellow down; fhells 
tap: punelured ftriate, with fix yellow {pots; antennz 
and legs hee yellow. 
ELSCHOW, in Geography, a town of Norway, 
nee the nie ae of Drontheim ; eight miles S.W. of Dron- 
theim. 
OPDAL, a town of sue in the province of Dron- 
theim; 54 miles S. of Drontheim 
OPE Lanp, in Agriculture, provincially ground that is 
oofe or open, from its being ploughed up every year, or 
kept in conftant tillage. 
OPECKON, in a a creek of America, in Vir- 
ginia, the blag of whic damage into the Patowmac 
river. t. 39° 30! ong. 77° 
OPEGINSKAIA, tow of Ruffia, i in the government 
m Novgerod, on the river Mota; 60 miles Fr. of Nov- 
oro: 
®"OPEGRAPHA, i in Botany, {o named from own, a chink 
or cleft, and yeaQw, to write or si uaa in allufion to the na- 
ture of the frudtification, ve nat mere es ris oot or 
Oriental characters on a white ce one 
pecies, and indeed many long rants madera it, obtained 
the od see n of Lichen feriptus, from Linneu 
follow: ft. Annal. fafc. 11. 
Met ichenogr. 244. Sm. in Engl. Bot. 1753.— 
Clafs ihe nes Crypegami Alga. "Nat . Ord. Alge, Linn. 
Jufl. Lichenes, 
. See asi in black, linear, feffile, fimple or branched, 
bordered clefts, in an uninterrupted cruft 
nus among the whole tribe of Lichens, now become 
Acricota. Black ; fore fmooth ; Pa ftriate. It ‘ana ia order, can be more clearly diftin& than this. The 
inhabite Germany, and is a very {mall in vlefis. technically fo called, area peculiar fort of fru@ifica- 
Cinereous; thorax oak. fhells with four tion, differing from the fhields or tubercles of a Lichen, in 
UM. 
raifed lines. It is found in Sweden, and is very {mall. 
Pusittum. Cinereous, thorax seas lg fhells with many 
ftrie. Itis fmall and inhabits Hun 
QuisquitiaRuUM. Black; cee caudate {mooth in 
the middle; fheils very incon: 
CINEREUM. is 1 
fhells have punétured grooves. 
Ochraceous, {mooth; thorax and hells 
faintly Suncrared. me is > und in Germany, and is thought 
not to belong to this 
CINETERIUM. Bry, eee fhells flat, very {mooth. 
It inhabits Pomera 
Brew; Grccariae. “Ferruginou 
This alfo is found in Pomeran 
Liryoruitus. Black, beneath {carlet; thorax fearlet, 
fhells faintly grooved. 
apna from 
in ee either membranous or chalky, moftly white or 
pale, with a border more or lefs diftin€@tly marked. 
cruft {preads in patches, generally over the {fmooth bark of 
trees, tu which it is clofely united, being rarely found on 
ftones or walls, 
be pe {pecies of Opegrapha are defined m the Pro- 
sof Acharius, as a fection of the great genus Lichen ; 
in a Methadys, where Opegrapha, like the rett ze thofe 
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