40 COLEOPTERA. 



is rufo-testaceous, with the head and middle of the abdomen 

 dusky. 



In colour it more closely resembles dark specimens of O. 

 hrachyptera i^ferruginea, Er.), but in the latter the antennae 

 are longer, with the terminal joint fully twice as long as 

 broad, and the elytra are rather longer, with the punctuation 

 more distinct and somewhat rugulose. 



9. HoMALOTA VELOX, Kraatz, Ins. Deutschl. ii. 201, 4 ; 

 G. R. AVaterhouse, Proc. Ent. Soc. 2 Feb. 1863, 

 Zool. 8453 (1863). 

 'palli'pesy Rey (in litt.). 



This species must be placed next after H. debilicornis in 

 our lists. 



It appears to be not unlike H. gregariaj but considerably 

 smaller, with more slender and longer antennas, and longer 

 elytra. It is depressed, nigro-fuscous, with testaceous legs 

 and fuscous elytra, closely and delicately punctured, the 

 elytra nearly half again as long as the thorax, the first five 

 segments of the abdomen thickly and delicately punctured, 

 and the sixth segment smooth. In the male the middle of 

 the upper surface of the sixth abdominal segment is armed 

 with an acute prominent tubercle, and the hinder margin of 

 the penultimate segment is somewhat similar to the same part 

 in H. currax or sulcifronSj except that in velox the middle 

 tubercles are somewhat stronger, whilst the outer little points 

 are scarcely perceptible, and the hinder margin slopes off 

 obliquely from the middle tubercle. 



One specimen taken by Mr. Waterhouse at Brockenhurst, 

 in the New Forest, and another by Mr. Hislop, in Scotland. 



