NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1863. 41 



10. HoMALOTA OBLONGA, EHcbs. Gen. et Spec. Staph. 



101, 40; Redt. Faun. Austr. 662, 36; Ktz. Ins. 



Deutschl. ii. 205, 8 ; G. R. Waterhouse, Proc. Ent. 



Soc. 2 Mar. 1863, Zool. 8480 (1863). 



This species must be placed next before H. jiagana in our 



lists ; it has been taken by Mr. Waterhouse near London, 



and I have also received it from Mr. Morris Young of 



Paisley. 



It is 1| lin. in length, somewhat similar to H. vestita in 

 build, pitchy black and shining, the elytra and antennae 

 entirely pitchy, and the legs fusco-testaceous. 



The thorax is somewhat widely and faintly impressed ; the 

 first four segments of the abdomen are sparingly punctulated, 

 and the fifth and sixth smooth. 



11. HoMALOTA PLANiFRONS, Watcrhouse, Proc. Ent. Soc. 



1 June, 1863, Zool. 8667 (1863), (described). 



Four specimens of this new^ species were taken by Mr. 

 Waterhouse in the corridor of the Crystal Palace at Syden- 

 ham, and a fifth by one of that gentleman's sons in the court- 

 yard of the British Museum. 



In size, form, colouring and structure of the antennas it 

 very closely resembles H. grecjaria, but may be readily dis- 

 tinguished from that species by the larger size of the head 

 (which is also subquadrate and depressed), by the parts of 

 the mouth being more produced and the fifth abdominal 

 segment being punctured, though rather sparingly. 



The male characters are moreover very different, nearly 

 resembling those of S, sulcifronsy from which it differs in 

 being smaller and narrower, in the form of the head, and in 

 having the anterior abdominal segments rather less thickly 

 punctured, and the fifth segment somewhat sparingly punc- 

 tured. 



