\22 [November, 
Baudi's remark, quoted by Dr. Kraatz (ib., 1 [1857], p. 75), as to the 
Ericbsonian description being from a not fully coloured specimen, is 
correct. Dr. Kraatz (loc. cit., and in Ins. DeutschL, ii, p. 1060) lias 
erroneously stated that S. atricilla and H. puncticeps were specifically 
identical, on the authority of a fully coloured example of the former 
received from Herr Baudi, and that the latter name should be sunk. 
Mr. Waterhouse, in his Catalogue (p. 18), has remarked this Kraatzian 
decision ; but his inversion of the two names, and the note of excla- 
mation following atricilla, sufficiently indicate his opinion on the point. 
Herr Scriba also points out that H. fiavipes, Thorns, (which Dr. 
Kraatz, Berl. Ent. Zeit., v., 1861, p. 219, mentions as being allied to, 
if not identical with H. puncticeps), is identical with H. atricilla; and 
I think there can be no doubt but that he is correct in this opinion, as 
the differences pointed out by me in Ent. Annu.al, 1864, p. 43, between 
H. puncticeps and H. onaritima (a name given by Mr. Waterhouse to 
Thovaf^ovi ^flavipes, on account of Gravenliorst's prior use of the latter 
specific appellation) are entirely in accordance with Herr Scriba's ob- 
servations with regard to these insects. 
Their synonymy will, therefore, now stand as follows : 
HoMALOTA PUNCTICEPS, Tlioms. ( Halohreclitlia) ; Kraatz ; 
Waterh. (but not of Cat.). 
atricilla, Ktz., nee Er. 
algcB, Hai'dy and Bold. 
anihracina, Eairm. 
algicola, WolL, M.S. (teste Dom. Scriba). 
HOMALOTA ATRICILLA, Er. 
maritima, Waterh. (Proc. Ent. Soc). 
fiavipes, Thoms., nee Erav. 
algcE var., Hardy and Bold. 
puncticeps, Wat. Cat., nee Thoms. 
HoMALOTA PICE A, Mots. 
This species, attributed to Britain only in De Marseul's Catalogue 
(as mentioned by me in Ent. Annual, 186G) , and unknown to English 
coleopterists, is thus characterized by Motschulsky in the Bull, de la 
Soc. Imp. des Nat. de Mosc., 1858 (vol. 31, pt. 2), p. 254, 222. 
" • Voisine de la H. ohlita^ Aube [? Erichs.], mais plus etroite 
" et de couleur plus foncee. Noire, corselet, elytres et pattes rem- 
" brunies, tarses et genous d'un testace sale. Tete arrondie, convexe, 
" lisse et luisante. Corselet plus large que la tete, transversale, arrondi 
" surles cotes, finement ponctue. Elytres un pen plus larges que le 
