394 [J UNE 



acuminate ; second abdominal segment sometimes with a short, acute, 

 lateral spine, the sixth segment carinated. — Kraatz. 



2. Hoplandria ochracea. Kraatz. 



Hoplandria ochracea, Kraatz, Linn.. Ent. Zeitz. xi, p. 6. 



( )chraceous, somewhat shining, sparsely pubescent; head, the elytra 

 about the scutellum, their apical angles, and the fifth segment of abdo- 

 men, fuscous; thorax transverse, deeply punctured, the basal middle 

 scarcely margined ; abdomen above densely and finely punctured. — 

 Length 1 — 1] line. 



ffab. — Georgia. 



Sparsely pubescent. Antennae a little longer than the head and 

 thorax, fuscous, paler at base ; second joint a little longer than the 

 third, obconic; fourth joint scarcely broader than the third ; fifth dis- 

 tinctly thicker, transverse; 6 — 1 joints a little broader ; the two penul- 

 timate joints of nearly equal length, ovate, acuminate. Head deflexed, 

 narrower than the thorax, scarcely constricted at base, nigro-fuscous, 

 shining, sparsely and finely punctured. Thorax nearly twice shorter 

 than broad, narrower anteriorly ; the sides slightly, and the base 

 strongly, rounded ; apex truncate ; all the angles obtuse, the posterior 

 ones somewhat rounded, and the anterior ones deflexed; basal middle 

 very finely margined ; densely and finely punctured, rufo-testaceous. 

 Elytra a little lunger than the thorax, densely and finely punctured, 

 rufo-testaceous, the exterior apical angles and about the scutellum, fus- 

 cous. Abdomen slightly attenuated towards the apex, densely and 

 finely punctured above ; the fifth segment always, and the anterior mar- 

 gins of the fourth and sixth segments occasionally, nigro-fuscous. Legs 

 testaceous. 



Male. — Interior apical angles of the elytra with an elevated tubercle ; 

 sixth segment distinctly carinated ; third segment occasionally with 

 two minute carinas on the middle. — Kraatz. 



b. Ligula short, bifid: joints of hind tarsi 1 — 4 decreasing in length. 



Genus 4.— HOMALOTA. Mann. 

 1. Homalota plana, Gyll. 



Aleochara plana, Gyll. Ins. Suee. ii, p. 402. 24. Sahib. Ins. Fenn. i. p. 367. 40. 

 Hovialota plana, Erich. Staph, p. 93. 23. 

 Linear, depressed, black; antennas piceous ; legs and anus testaceous; 

 thorax in front transversely subquadrate, channelled ; elytra half again 

 as long as the thorax, brown ; abdomen above sparsely and finely punc- 

 tured. Length 1] line. 



[Hab. — United States and Europe.] 



Black, rather shining, finely and thinly pubescent. Antennas half 



