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5. Aleochara inconspicua, Aube, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. 

 cle Fr., ser. 2, viii. 312, 17 ; Ktz. Ins. Deutscbl. ii. 

 107, 28 (?); G. R. Waterhouse, Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 6 Apr. 1863, Zool. 8534 (1863). 



Brought forward by Mr. Waterhouse from the recently 

 dispersed Collection of Mr. Jeakes (probably captured by 

 the late Mr. Squire), with no note however of its locality, 

 further than that the specimen was British. 



As large as a middle sized A. moesta, and remarkable on 

 account of the terminal joint of tbe antennae being equal to 

 the united three preceding joints ; glossy black, and rather 

 densely clothed with very pale ash-coloured pubescence, 

 especially on the thorax and elytra ; legs, palpi and basal 

 joints of antennse pitchy, terminal joint of the palpi and 

 the tarsi testaceous. The abdomen has the transverse grooves 

 on the basal segments strongly and thickly punctured, and 

 tbe penultimate segment with its hinder margin not crenu- 

 lated, but rather indistinctly emarginate in the middle. 



Compared with A. moesta, which it resembles in its slen- 

 der legs, it differs in having the head smaller, the antennae 

 longer and more slender, and the thorax less convex, more 

 contracted in front and more delicately punctured ; also in 

 the transverse grooves of the basal segments, which are 

 more strongly and rather more densely punctured, the basal 

 part of the fifth segment being strongly punctured, instead 

 of smooth as in moesta. 



From A. lanuginosa it differs in having the legs not so 

 stout, and the posterior tarsi longer and more slender. 



This insect appears to agree with A. inconspicua, Aube, 

 in the remarkable structure of its antennse and strong punc- 

 tuation of the transverse grooves of the abdominal segments, 

 but it seems to be too large, and not to have the penultimate 



