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32. HoMALOTA Thomsoni, Janson, Proc. Ent. Soc. 3 Feb. 

 1862, Zool. 7912 (1862). 

 nigricornis, Thomson, Kong. Yet. Akad. Forli. Stockli. 

 (1850), 142, 42; Kraatz ; (nee Kirby or Steph.). 

 Captured by Mr. E. W. Janson, near Hampstead, in 

 April, 1857. Comes next after S. divisa, Wat. Cat. 



33. HoMALOTA AUTUMNALis, Erichs. Gen. et Spec. Staph. 

 113,66; G. R. Waterhouse, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1 Sept. 

 1862, Zool. 8218 (1862). 

 foveola, Mulsant. 



Taken at Hawkburst, Kent, by Mr. Waterhouse ; also by 

 Dr. Power, and by myself at Coombe Wood. It comes 

 next after H. corriariaj Wat. Cat. 



Concerning this insect Mr. Waterhouse has given me the 

 following remarks : — "When I exhibited to the Entomolo- 

 gical Society a specimen of what I believed to be the Iloina- 

 lota autumnalisy Er., as a species new to England, I was 

 very properly reminded that the insect had already been re- 

 corded in Murray's * Catalogue of Scotch Coleoptera.' I 

 have since found that the species is also recorded by Messrs. 

 Hardy and Bold, in their * Catalogue of the Coieoptera of 

 Northumberland,' &c. ; and indeed it is described in the 

 latter work. Upon referring to my note-books I find that I 

 have had an opportunity of examining the ' H. autiimnaUs' 

 both of jNIr. Murray's and Mr. Bold's collections, and that 

 in both cases the species was represented by H. grecjaria. 

 The description above referred to, however, certainly cannot 

 have been taken from H. gregaria ; and it appears to me 

 almost as certain that it does not apply to the insect I exhi- 

 bited as H. autumnalis." 



