NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1863. 43 



latter having the tarsi, knees and tips of the tibiae more or 

 less testaceous. 



Head nearly as wide and large as the thorax, with the 

 eyes small, the upper surface convex, tkicJibj and distinct!// 

 ■jmnctiu-ed; thorax subquadrate, hinder part rounded, and 

 the surface thickly and distinctly punctured ; elytra depressed, 

 nearly half as long again as the thorax, densely punctured 

 and dull ; abdomen glossy, the basal segments sparingly 

 punctured, the fifth very sparingly, and the sixth hardly at 

 all, the apex more or less pitchy. The posterior tarsi are 

 short. 



13. HoMALOTA MARiTiMA, Watei'house, MSS. ; G. R. 

 Waterhouse, Proc. Ent. Soc. 2 Feb. 1863, Zool. 

 8453 (1863). 

 HalobrectkaJIavipes, Thorns. Skand. Col. iii. 50, 2. 

 Homalota jmncticepSy Wat. Cat. (nee Ktz.) 

 algce, var.. Hardy and Bold. 

 Found by Mr. Waterhouse and others on the banks of the 

 Thames and Medway at Gravesend and near Strood, and 

 generally more common on the coast than H. puncticepsy 

 next after which it must be placed in our lists. 



It resembles the latter species somewhat in the strong 

 punctuation of the head and fore parts of the body, but is 

 less dark in colour, being pitchy black, with the elytra more 

 inclined to piceous. The legs, antennge, palpi and parts of 

 the mouth are testaceous, the terminal joint of the palpi, 

 apical half of antennae, and the femora and tibias however 

 being more or less fuscous. 



The antennae are rather stouter than in H. pnmcticeps, the 

 head, thorax and elytra less densely punctured, and hence 

 less dull ; the elytra are but little longer than the thorax and 

 the posterior tarsi more elongate. The apex of the abdomen 

 is more or less rufescent. 



