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the elytra, much broader than long, nearly straight at the sides, scarcely narrowed 
behind, finely punctate; hind angles obtuse, not rounded. LElytra a good deal longer 
than the thorax, rather closely punctate. Legs sordid testaceous, femora a little 
darker. 
This species has quite the appearance of the European species forming the H. xan- 
thoptera group, and is allied in structure to H. incognita, Shp.; but the middle coxse are 
perceptibly less approximate, and the mesosternal process is more elongate and less 
slender, and therefore less acuminate at the extremity. A single individual has been 
found ; it is possibly a female. 
6. Homalota libera. 
Nigra, capite thoraceque subsnescentibus, elytris fusco-subeneis, antennarum basi pedibusque testaceis ; 
antennis sat clongatis, conspicue pilosellis, articulo quarto haud, decimo leviter, transverso; thorace 
transversim subquadrato ; elytris thoracis longitudine ; abdomine parce punctato. 
Long. 4 millim. 
Hab. Guatemaua, Volcan de Agua 8500 to 10,500 feet (Champion). 
Antenne yellow at the base, becoming dark at the extremity; third joint elongate, 
longer than second; fourth slender, longer than broad; of joints five to ten each is a 
little shorter and broader than its predecessor, so that, though the fifth is longer than 
broad, the tenth is transverse; terminal joint elongate and acuminate, quite as long as 
the two preceding together. Thorax rather large, but not so long as broad; it is 
slightly narrowed behind; the hind angles are very obtuse, the base is about as broad 
as the elytra at the shoulders; it is sparingly punctate. Elytra rather short, about the 
length of the thorax, a little narrowed towards the shoulders, sparingly punctate; hind 
margin not perceptibly sinuate at the outer angle. Hind body only very sparingly 
punctate; the apical segments almost without punctuation. 
The middle cox are in this species very exserted, so that the structure of the pieces 
near them is not very conspicuous; the coxe are nearly or quite contiguous, and the 
mesosternum is scarcely at all produced between them; and thus, although the meso- 
sternum sends off between them a long slender process, it does not reach the metasternum, 
but is separated from it by a considerable space. Only a single individual, in extremely 
decayed condition, has been sent. 
7. Homalota guatemale. 
Rufo-obscura, capite, elytris abdomineque in medio fuscis, antennis rufis, pedibus abdominisque apice testaceis ; 
dense subtilissime punctulata, fere opaca ; capite subtriangulari; antennis mediocribus articulis 4°-10”, 
transversis. 
Long. 2 millim. 
Hab. Guatamata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
Antenne rather short, moderately stout; third joint short, not so long as second ; 
fourth smaller than those following, transverse; fifth to tenth differing but little from 
