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" corselet, et moitie plus longues, earrees, distiuctement ponctuees, et 
" recouvertes d'une pubescence grisatre, peu serree comme le corselet. 
"Abdomen etrangle a la base, luisaut, les bords des premiers segments 
" seulement ponctuees. Antcnnes plus longues que la tete et le corselet 
" reunis ; 2'"" article un peu plus court que le 1", mais le double plus 
" longue que le 4"'' ; les suivants couique, le dernier un peu plus longue 
" que les deux precedents reunis, acumine. 
" Angleterre. 
" Parmi les especes deerites par Stephens il n'y en a pas unc seule 
"que puisse etre rapportee a celle quejeviens de decrire." 
HOMALOTA EREMITA, UOV. SpCC. 
Parallela, nigra iteu piceo-nigra ; ahdominis apice excepto, parum 
nitida ; puhe flavescenti dcpressd vestita ; pedihus piceo-riijls, femorihus 
plerumque infuscatis ; antcnnis picesceniihus, hasi plerumque dllutiorihus ; 
tlwrace transversa, convexiusculo, hasi obsolete foveolato, medioque scepe 
late ohsoleteque canaliculato, capite paulo latiori, elytris longitudine 
cequali ; his depressiusculis, marginisque apicalis medio ohsoletissime scepe 
impressis ; abdomine supra segmentis (2-4) anterioribus confertim sub- 
tiliter, posterioribus (5-6) parcius, ptmctatis. 
Sexus differentia Jiaud conspicua. Long. 1|-1| Un. 
To tbis species (whicb belongs to Thomson's section Atheto) must 
be referred the insects erroneously recorded in former numbers of this 
Journal as ScJiistoglossa viduata, to which it bears great resemblance ; 
differing (apart from generic characters) in its average larger size, wider 
head and thorax, shorter elytra, — which arc, moreover, not quite so 
thickly punctured, — and more elongate antennje. There are, besides, 
no evident male characters, as in that insect ; except, perhaps, a scarcely 
perceptible increase of punctuation on the upper surface of the penul- 
timate abdominal segment. Some specimens, however, exhibit a slight 
depression (only visible in certain lights) in the middle of the apical 
margin of the elytra, and which may possibly be a sexual indication. 
Of our other British species the only one to which it can be 
likened is Homalota tibialis, from which its larger size, longer antennae, 
rather longer elytra, more convex and usually more evidently foveolated 
thorax, and duller appearance, will readily separate it. 
This insect appears to be common in the northern parts of the 
kingdom, especially in elevated districts, as will have been observed 
from the notices of its capture. Mr. Sharp has found it abundantly in 
the Edinburgh district ; and it was not by any means scarce under 
stones, &c., on the sides and summit of " Grayvell" and Cross Craig 
at Eannoch, when I was there in July last. 
