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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES, &c., OF BBACHELYTRA. 
BY E. C. RYE. 
HoMALOTA Saundeusi, nov. spec. 
Nigra, nitida ; antennis validiorilus,7iiffro-piceis, hasifuscls ; clijtris 
fuseo-testaceis ; pedlhus rufo-testaceis ; tlwrace transversa, ccquali ; ah- 
domine supra segmentis (2-4) anterior ihus parce subtiliterque puncfatis, 
posterioribus (5-6) Icsvigatis. 
^. Ahdomitiis supra segmentum sesctum medio dentihus duohus 
latis, incurvatis, apice quasi truncatis, spindque utrinque validd, actitd, 
intus curvatd, paulo ultra denies medianos porrectd, instructum. 
Long. Corp., \\ tin. 
Two male examples of this apparently undescribed species were 
taken in a sand pit near Eeigate by Mr. J A. Brewer ; in deference to 
whose wishes I have dedicated it to Mr. "W. "W. Saunders, of that town, 
whose claims to entomological distinction are well known. 
It is very closely allied to H. dilaticornis, Kraatz ; the general 
structure of the two insects, and especially that of the antennae (except 
that the apical joint is a trifle longer in R. Saundersi), being almost 
identical ; it differs, however, from that species in its rather larger size, 
darker colour, and more strongly punctured elytra, and in the sexual 
characters. In the male of H. dilaticornis the sixth abdominal segment 
has a very slight spine on each side, and on its upper-surface (as de- 
scribed by Kraatz) two medial tubercles, which are, as it were, continued 
and flattened behind into two discs (which, meeting in the middle of 
the hinder margin, form a gentle emargination), the whole reaching 
further backwards than the apex of the lateral spines. In certain 
lights (and this appears to me the more correct description) the two 
tubercles appear to be situated at some distance within the hinder 
margin of the segment, which is flattened, and exhibits an ordinary 
slight central emargination. It is to such an aspect that the " G''^"""- 
segment eclianchre'''' of Fairmaire, Faun. Ent. Fr., p. 419, must be re- 
ferred, — though ^n'mo visu at variance with Ki\iatz. 
In a. Saundersi the two medial tubercles assume the form of wide 
and apically truncated tooth-like elevations, projecting beyond the 
apical margin. The lateral teeth, also, are longer and more robust, 
reaching, at their points, slightly beyond the middle elevations. 
HoMALOTA ATEICILLA, Er. 
Herr Scriba (Berlin Ent. Zeit., 10 [18GG], p. 289) points out that 
H. puncticeps, Thorns., is distinct from this species; and that Herr 
