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jeiy strongly striate-pimctate, seventh stria absent. Leo-g 

 ferrugmous-red, slightly brownish on the thicrhs, which have 

 a faint aeneous tint."— J"«c^.Z>i^^-«y,7,. cit. ix. 507,22(1851). 

 3. Haploglossa rufipennis, Kraatz; E. W. Janson, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. 6 Feb. 1860, Zool. 6937 (1860) \ 

 H. S. Gorham, Proc. Ent. Soc. 4 June, 1860, Zool' 

 7094(1860). 

 Haploglo^m rufpennh, Kraatz, Naturgesch. d. Ins 

 Deutschl. ii. 81, 3 (1856). 

 Very nearly allied to H. jndla, Gyll, but differing in its 

 more parallel form, closer and much finer punctuation, and 

 the colour of its elytra, which are rufo-testaceous, with a 

 dark triangular patch in the region of the scutellum and at 

 the outer posterior angles. 



Found by Mr. Wolfaston, in sand-pits, on Reigate common 

 on the 26th June, 1857 ; by myself, in the same locality, by 

 brushing, on the 6th July, 1859; and more recently by 

 Mr. Gorham, in sand-pits near Addington, Surrey. 

 4. HoMALOTA SUBTERRANEA, Mulsaut ; E. W. Janson, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. 2 July, 1860, Zool. 7152 (1860). 

 Homalota suhterranea, Mulsant et Rev, Opu^c Ent 

 ii. 40, 4 (1853); Kraatz, Naturgesch. d. Ins.* 

 Deutschl. ii. 291, 99 (1856). 

 Head pitchy-black ; thorax rufo-testaceous ; elvtra and 

 abdomen reddish-brown, of the latter the fourth and fifth 

 segments and the base of the sixth pitchy-black; antenna 

 brown, their base and the legs rufo-testaceous. 

 Length 1 1- lin. 



Nearly allied to S. hnspita, Maerk., but considerablv 

 smaller and relatively narrower; abdomen with segments 2^ 

 5 minutely and sparsely punctate, the sixth nearlv^'smooth. 



I captured a single male individual of this prettv and well 



