1865.] 401 



legs and anus testaceous; thorax suborbicular, slightly convex, basal 

 fovea transversely impressed. Length ij — 1 line. 



Var. — Thorax and elytra rufo-piceous. 



Hab. — Europe and North America. 



Narrow, subdepressed, linear, clothed with a very fine grey pube- 

 scence. Antennae shorter than the head and thorax, scarcely thickened 

 towards the apex, joints 4 — 10 somewhat turbinate, the last joint ra- 

 ther large, ovate, apex somewhat acuminate; testaceous. Head almost 

 as broad as the thorax, rounded, profoundly constricted at base, inserted 

 on the thorax, as it were, by a short peduncle, very closely and finely 

 punctured, black or piceous; mouth testaceous. Thorax not narrower 

 than the elytra, half again shorter than broad ; the sides, base and an- 

 gles rounded, slightly convex above, very closely and finely punctured ; 

 the basal fovea deeply and transversely impressed; piceous. Elytra rather 

 longer than the thorax, finely and densely punctured, piceous. Abdomen 

 finely and densely punctured, black; apex testaceous. Legs testaceous. 



Varies by the thorax and elytra being piceo-testaceous. — Erichson. 



15. Homalota lividipennis, Mann. 



Oxypoda lividipennis, Mann. Brachel. p. 70. 2. 

 Aleochara lividipennis, Sahib. Ins. Fenn. i, p. 388. 77. 

 Homalota lir>ida, Erich. Col. March, i, p. 337. 39. 

 Homalota lividipennis, Erich. Staph, p. 129. 108. 



Black, opaque, densely and finely punctured, with sericeous pube- 

 scence ; antennae long, thick, piceous; legs and elytra testaceous, the 

 flatter infuscated about the scutellum. Length If line. 



Hah. — Europe and North America. 



Head black, opaque, very closely and finely punctured, clothed with 

 a thin, greyish-sericeous pubescence. Antennae longer than the head 

 and thorax, thick, third joint a little longer than the second, joints 4 — 

 10 cylindrical, the two penultimate joints longer, elongate-cylindrical, 

 acuminate ; black or fusco-piceous. Head much narrower than the 

 thorax, rounded, deflexed ; front convex ; palpi fuscous. Thorax at 

 base as broad as the elytra, narrowed anteriorly, one-half shorter than 

 broad posteriorly, base and sides rounded, apex subemarginate, angles 

 obtuse, deflexed anteriorly, slightly convex, the base with a slight 

 transverse impression, obsoletely channelled. Elytra scarcely longer 

 than the thorax, the apex and exterior angles slightly sinuate ; pale 

 testaceous, with a triangular, dusky mark about the scutellum. Ab- 

 domen conspicuously attenuated towards the apex, the margins a little 

 pilose, the apex and margins of the segments obscure testaceous. Legs 

 testaceous. 



