under the name of Feronia , in which he has been followed by 
Dejean. 
The individuals which Omaseas comprises that are found in this 
country are the following : 
1. aterrimus Fab . — Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 15. <J . 
Shining black ; 2 deeply impressed parallel lines on the forehead arid another 
down the centre of the thorax, the posterior angles of which are rounded and 
a little reflexed, with a large punctured fovea on each side ; elytra with very 
finely punctured strise, and an abbreviated one at the base, between the 1st and 
2nd, with 3 foveolae on the latter, 2 at the centre and another nearer the apex, 
and on the 3rd stria is another foveola towards the base ; wings ample. 
This fine species was unknown as an inhabitant of Britain until 
it was discovered in Norfolk by my lamented friend the late Joseph 
Hooker, Esq. of Norwich. Mr. Sparshall afterwards found a spe- 
cimen at Horning in the same county, which had just settled upon 
a plant in the marshes, the wings being at the time unfolded; and 
in January 1822 he was so obliging as to take me to the same neigh- 
bourhood, where I had the pleasure of finding 2 specimens secreted 
in crevices in the bark of pollard willows by the side of the river : 
they did not appear to be much affected by the cold at the time, 
although the tranquil waters which covered the surrounding country 
were frozen over ; for one of them made its escape, and failing into 
the river, which had overflowed its banks, it sunk, and must have 
attached itself to the grass at the bottom, for after the most diligent 
search w 7 e could not find it : at the end of November in the same 
year we went again, when we found a considerable number appa- 
rently in their natural habitations, the decayed stumps of trees that 
had been cut down by the sides of ditches which frequently over- 
flowed them : we dug many out of the trees, so completely enveloped 
that it is difficult to imagine how they could have come there, unless 
they had resided in the wood in the larva state : it is evidently a 
very local species, attached to damp situations, and able in warm 
weather to fly with celerity. It has also been found at Whittlesea 
Mere and at Bottisham Fen by the Rev. L. Jenyns in April and 
June, basking in the sun on the soft mud at the edge of turf-pits. 
Specimens have also been taken near Cork which were said to have 
been found in an ant’s nest. 
2. Orinomum Lea. — Ste.pl. 7 ./. 3. — Bulweri Ste. pi. 7.f. 2. 
Male shining metallic black ; thorax cordate, the base truncated, scarcely an- 
gulated, a strong elongated fovea on each side, surrounded by punctures : 
elytra with 5 foveolae on the 2nd and 3rd striae, tibiae and tarsi deep chestnut. 
Female ; thorax less narrowed behind, the elytra duller : 5i, 5 -§- lines long. 
7th June, under stones, and running in the sunshine near the 
summit of Redskrees near Ambleside, and on the 5th of July one 
live and many dead under stones towards the top of Skiddaw. Also 
on the banks of the Tees in March, at the base of Ben Lomond and 
near Belfast, Mr. Haliday. 
3. Anthracinus III. — Dej. Icon. Col. Fur. pi. 134./. 5. 
Shining black, thorax very little narrowed behind, angulated, with a large 
punctured fovea on each side having an elevated rid^e externally and a large 
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