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35. Homalota flavicauda. (Tab. V. fig. 10.) 
Ferrugineo-testacea, parum nitida, minus tenuiter pubescens, abdomine setulis exsertis parcis nigris, prothorace 
valde transverso, basi utrinque versus angulum posteriorem subsinuato ; elytris quam prothorax multo 
longioribus, crebre punctatis ; abdomine apicem versus attenuato, crebre equaliter punctato. 
Long. 37 millim. 
Hab. GuateMALa, Senahu in Vera Paz (Champion). 
Antenne not elongate, a good deal thickened towards the apex; third joint shorter 
than second, fifth to tenth differing little from one another in length, but each a little 
broader than its predecessor, tenth slightly transverse, terminal joint as long as the 
two preceding together. Head very short and broad, scarcely visibly punctate. Thorax 
very transverse, more than twice as broad as it is long, rather narrower at the anterior 
than at the posterior angles, at the latter as broad as the shoulders of the elytra, the 
base rounded and very distinctly margined, on each side near the posterior angles a 
little sinuate, so that the angles are visible although obtuse; the surface extremely 
finely punctate. Elytra much longer than the thorax, and more distinctly punctate 
and pubescent. Hind body with the apical segment pale yellow, all the segments 
equally punctate. 
The species is a peculiar one, and makes some approximation in form and appearance 
to Oxypoda and Polylobus; but I can place it nowhere but in Homalota. The anterior 
tarsi are pretty certainly only four-jointed, the middle and posterior having each five 
joints, the basal joint of the latter scarcely longer than the second; the fourth and fifth 
joints are very slender, and the division between them obscure. ‘The intermediate cox 
are not quite contiguous; and the mesosternal process is greatly prolonged between 
them as a very slender process, which meets the slightly produced middle of the meta- 
sternum ; the middle and posterior tibiz each bear externally a conspicuous exserted 
seta placed above the middle. Only a single individual has been found. 
86. Homalota brevis. 
Homalota brevis, Sharp, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1876, p. 62°. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion).—SovutH America, Amazons !. 
Mr. Champion has found only one individual of this minute insect; but I believe it 
is conspecific with those found by Prof. Trail at Garrao in fungus. 
37. Homalota leticula. 
Minuta, subparallela, subtiliter punctata et pubescens, testacea; antennis parvis, articulis 5°-10™ transversis ; 
prothorace fortiter transverso, transversim convexo, basi et lateribus rotundatis, antrorsum angustato ; 
abdomine parce punctato. 
Long. 1? millim. 
Hab. Guatemaa, Capetillo (Champion). 
Antenne quite short and not stout, a little thickened outwardly; third joint much 
