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A most abundant Eurojiean insect, occurring almost everywhere. In Madeira 

 it is likewise exceedingly common, at low and intermediate elevations, in the 

 dung of cattle. I have captured it both in the north and south of the island, 

 especially in the chestnut-woods of Santa Anna, — where during the summer of 

 1850 I observed it in the utmost profusion. It may be knowTi by its fusiform out- 

 line, elongated and robust limbs, by its shining surface, brownish-testaceous elytra, 

 and by its exclusively stercoraceous haljits. 



429. Homalota lividipennis. 

 H. fusiformis nigra confertissime punctulata subopaca sericeo-pubescens et minus depressa, jn'otlioract- 



amplo postice lato, elytris pedibusque testaceis, antennis robustis piceis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. li-lf • 



Oxypocla lividqjennis, Mann. Brachel. 70 (1831). 



Homalota livida, Erich. Kdf. der Mark Brand, i. 3.37 (1837). 



• lividipennis, Erich. Gen. et Spec. Stapli. 129 (1839). 



— , Eedt. Fna Austr. GGl (184^9). 



Habitat in iisdem locis ac prsecedens, sed paulo rarior. 



H. fusiform (being acuminated both before and behind, though especially the latter), black, most 

 densely punctulated, almost opake, slightly convex, clothed with a fine, sericeous, brownish 

 pubescence, and subdepressed. Prothorax large, wide behind. Elytra testaceous, but more or 

 less obscured about the region of the scutellum and at the lateral margins. Abdomen ferruginous 

 at its apex. Antenna and legs not quite so long as in the last species ; the former very robust, 

 piceous (or fusco-piceous), with their base a little diluted in colouring ; the latter pale testaceous. 



Likewise of exclusively stercoraceous habits, and of very wide geographical 

 range, — occurring throughout the whole of Em-ope, and being reported even from 

 America. It is a species of rather peculiar aspect, somewhat resembling au 

 Oxypocla, — its large, posteriorly-dilated prothorax and apically-acnminated ab- 

 domen giving it an aspect different from the generality of the Komalotce ; never- 

 theless the structure of its tarsi shows it to belong to the present genus. Amongst 

 other .characters, its most densely punctulated and sericeous surface, in conjunc- 

 tion with its very robust antennae, and its testaceous elytra (which are usually 

 only infuscated about the region of the scutellum, and at the extreme lateral 

 edges), will serve additionally to distinguish it. It is found principally in com- 

 pany with the n. loncj'icornis, though not quite so abundantly ; albeit it ascends 

 to a higher elevation, since I have captured it both at the head of the Ribeiro de 

 Joao Delgada and at the Cruzinhas (upwards of 5000 feet above the sea). In the 

 vicinity of Funchal and at Santa Anna it is tolerably common, — especially the 

 former, where, during the autumnal months, I have observed it in the utmost 

 profusion (in the dung of cattle) on the grassy slopes to the eastward of the town, 

 ])efore arriving at the Cabo Gerajao or Brazen Head. 



