46 COLEOPTERA. 



Its place is next before palleola in our lists, but it is in the 

 same section as analis 'dud gemina, having the thickly punc- 

 tured abdomen of the former, and the depressed appearance 

 of the latter, but it is decidedly smaller than either of the 

 latter species ; from the description it appears to be a linear, 

 nigro-fuscous insect, with the antennte and legs testaceous, 

 and the abdomen very closely and delicately punctured, the 

 male having a longitudinal groove on the forehead. 



17. HoMALOTA Fusco-FEMORATA, Waterhouse, MSS. ; 

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

 Zool. 8453 (1863). 

 Atheta picipes, Thomson, Ofv. af Yet. Ac. Forh. 1856, 

 99, 20 J Skand. Col. iii. 81, 30. 



A single specimen taken long since by Mr. Waterhouse, 

 who has no note of its locality, and has proposed the name 

 above given for the species, on accountof there being another 

 picipes in the genus Homalota. 



Its place is next to H. nigritula, Grav., in our lists. 

 From Thomson's work, loc. cit., it appears to be 11- lin. in 

 length, linear elongate, somewhat depressed, shining, very 

 delicately alutaceous, sparingly fusco-pubescent, black, palpi 

 and legs pitchy-testaceous ; the thorax transverse sub-qua- 

 drate, rather narrower than the elytra, and foveolate at the 

 base J the elytra pitchy black, longer than the thorax ; the 

 abdomen with the first four segments sparingly and delicately 

 punctured. 



The male has the 2nd, 3rd and 4th joints of the antennjB 

 thickly clothed with white pubescence on the inner side, and 

 the penultimate segment of the abdomen with a distinctly, 

 but delicately, crenulated and almost angular emargination. 



