44 COLEOPTERA. 



This is the insect referred to as H. puncticeps in Wat. Cat., 

 Mr. Waterhouse having had it returned to him from Dr. 

 Kraatz with that name. 



On account of the existence of the specific name Jiavipes 

 ah'eady in the genus, Mr. Waterhouse has proposed the name 

 maritima for the present species, 



14. HoMALOTA GEMiNA, Erichs. Col. Mar. i. 330, 27 ; id., 



Gen. et Spec. Staph. 112,65; Redt. Faun. Austr. 

 659, 15; Ktz. Ins. Deutschl. ii. 255, 59; G. R. 

 Waterhouse, Proc. Ent. Soc. 2 Feb. 1863, Zool. 8453 

 (1863). 

 This species must be placed in our lists next before aJiallSj 

 and is about the size of large specimens of that insect. 



It is linear, somewhat depressed, black with fuscous elytra, 

 the base of the antennce, legs and apex of the abdomen 

 being testaceous ; the first four segments of the abdomen are 

 thickly and delicately punctured, and the 5th and 6th smooth. 

 Taken by Mr. Waterhouse at Hammersmith marshes, 

 also by Dr. Power; it is also in my own collection. 



15. HoMALOTA SOROR, Kraatz, Ins. Deutschl. ii. 257 ? 



? Aviucha plafi/cepkala, Thomson, Skand. Col. ii. 



294. 

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

 Zool. 8455 (1863). 

 Mr. Charles Waterhouse detected among some specimens 

 of H. analis, taken by him at Hammersmith marshes, a 

 series of both sexes of apparently a distinct species, and which 

 w^ill most probably prove to be that first above mentioned. 

 I have since taken it at the same place, but it appears 7iot 

 to be mixed up with analis in collections, and is probably 

 very local. 



