78 COLEOPTERA. 



36. HoMALOTA LEPiDA, Kraatz, Ins. Deiitschl. ii. 310, 120; 



G. R. Waterhouse, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1 Sep. 1862, 

 Zool. 8219 (1862). 

 va r. excavata, ^v'lchs.', Redt. ; Heer. 

 Taken by Mr. Andrew Murray in Scotland. Comes next 

 after I£. palustrisj Wat. Cat. 



37. Oligota apicata, Erichs. Gen. et Spec. Staph, 182, 6; 



J. A. Power, Zool. 7530 (1861); Wat. Cat. p. 107 

 (1861). 

 granaria, Wat. Cat. p. 19 (not of Erichson). 

 Distinguished from its British congeners by the two last 

 joints of the abdomen and legs being clear fulvous-yellow, 

 and by the two first joints of the antennae being of the same 

 length, and relatively longer than any of the succeeding 

 joints. 



Taken in April, 1861, by Dr. Power from debris of fern, 

 at the Holt Forest, Hants, and subsequently in numbers at 

 the same place. The species granaria, Erichs., must be 

 erased from our lists, having been introduced erroneously, 

 on the authority of a specimen of apicata originally taken : 

 by Dr. Power. 



38. Gyroph^na pulchella, Heer, Faun. Col. Helv. i. 



310, 1 ; Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xv. 185. 4, Insect. 



Deutschl. ii. 356, 3; G. R. Waterhouse, Proc. Ent. 



Soc. 6 Jan. 1862, Zool. 7905 (1862), Trans. Ent. ^ 



Soc. vol. i. 3rd Series, pt. iii. 



Readily distinguished from most other British species by 



its long antennae ; differing from G. ajpnis, Mann., the only 



other long-horned species, in its generally paler colour and 



more glossy surface, also in having the thorax and elytra 



