192 MEMOIRS ON THE COLEOPTERA 



Homalota Mann. 



Epipeda Rey. 



The depressed surface characterizing the species of Homalota, 

 is suggestive of Placusa, but the body is slender and linear in form 

 and the type of male sexual characters is wholly different, though 

 likewise very pronounced. There are many species in our fauna and 

 possibly some one of them may be identical with the European 

 plana Gyll., examples of which I have tried in vain to obtain; 

 the multiplicity of species would, however, tend to show that no 

 one of them can be exactly the same as plana; but, if really described 

 below, the synonymy can easily be announced by those in position 

 to decide. 



Homalota funesta n. sp. Moderately slender, parallel, very depressed, 

 black, the elytra obscure testaceous, triangularly infumate basally, 

 the legs pale; lustre dull, the micro-reticulation small but very strong, 

 larger and feebler on the elytra and abdomen, the latter more shining; 

 punctures close but obscure, fine, asperate and dense on the elytra and 

 abdomen, sparser on the latter posteriorly, the four basal impressions 

 smooth; pubescence rather long, coarse and pale, yellowish; head slightly 

 wider than long, nearly five-sixths as wide as the prothorax, the eyes 

 prominent, at their own length from the base, the tempora rapidly rounded, 

 becoming parallel behind the eyes and distinctly less prominent than 

 the latter; antennae rather long, black, piceous basally, the third 

 joint shorter and narrower than the second, fourth not thicker, as long 

 as wide, fifth and following abruptly and mutually subequally thick, 

 the tenth a third wider than long, the last elongate-oval, as long as the 

 two preceding; prothorax nearly one-half wider than long, widest at 

 or barely before the middle, where the sides are broadly angulate, thence 

 very feebly converging to the apex, which is fully as wide as the base, 

 and rather more strongly converging posteriorly, becoming sinuate 

 before the slightly everted basal angles; surface broadly flattened me- 

 dially; elytra nearly as long as wide, parallel, just visibly wider, the suture 

 nearly one-half longer, than the prothorax, the apices transverse, not 

 at all sinuate; abdomen long, parallel, with rather wide margins, slightly 

 narrower than the elytra, the fifth tergite as long as the fourth, the sixth 

 (cf ) truncate, the truncature limited laterally by feeble projections, 

 the entire surface flat, rugose and depressed be-low the sides, being 

 limited laterally by longitudinal, entire and slightly arcuate vertical 

 walls. Length 2.3-2.8 mm.; width 0.5-0.58 mm. Ohio (Cincinnati), 

 Dury. 



Probably closely related to plana but also closely related to the 

 following, though altogether different: 



Homalota flexibilis n. sp. Less parallel, depressed, dull, the elytra 



