60 ISIr. D. S]iar})'s Contributions to the 



onto towards tlie apex, finely and not densely ])nnctiired, 

 tlieir hind margin almost straiglit. Hind body rather 

 slender, ])ale yellow at the base, -svith the oth and 6th seg- 

 ments black, the 7th reddish, the apex again dark, the 

 ba-^al segments finely, indistinctly and not closely pnnc- 

 tured, the apical ones impunctate. Legs ])ale yellow. 



Garrao; three individuals found in fungus on the 

 1 1th November, 1874, by Dr. Trail. I see no characters 

 from which to infer their sex. 



1 1 OM A LOTA. 



It would not be easy at the present moment to say what 

 the above word represents : to Erichson and Kraatz it 

 represented a vast number of species of minute IStapJiyli- 

 iiidce ; to C J. Thomson a single species, viz. Aleocliura 

 jilana, Gyll. ; Avhile to Key it appears to have two different 

 and yet sinudtaneons meanings; first, as representing 

 about forty-five species of French Aleoc/iarido', and the 

 second, with the affix " vcra,''^ as representing only ten of 

 those forty-five species. 



As to the species here described, I use the word in the 

 general sense of Kraatz and Erichson ; for the first five of 

 the six species here described Avould no doubt have been 

 refen'ed by those authors to the genus Ilouutlota ; the 

 other species, however, //. culpa, is anomalous, inas- 

 much as the basal joint of the hind tarsus is more elongate 

 than is supposed to be the case with Ilomalota : but, as in 

 the present state of confusion as to the nomenclature of 

 the grou|)S of species of Alcocharidce, I decline to be 

 responsible for a new generic name, I have had no option 

 but to refer this as well as the other species to the genus 

 Ilomalota. 



1. Ilomalota capta, n. s]). ^i igra, sat nltida, pedibus 

 testaceis, antcnnarum basi fusco-testaceo ; antennis sat 

 brevibus ; cu))ite fere transverso, vertice leviter impresso ; 

 prothorace valde ti-ansverso, dorso minus distinctc cnin 

 elytris, crebre subtiliter punctatis, his illo longioribus : ab- 

 domine basi subtiliter crebre i)unctato, apicc fere hovigato. 

 ]^()ng. Corp. ; lin. 



Antennju rather short, and not stout, black, with the 

 l)asc ])alcr, a little thickened towards the extremity ; 

 1st joint thick, :uid much longer than 2nd; .'U-d i-alher 

 short and stout, shorter than 2ju1 ; 4th to lUth scarcely 



