NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. < / 



the back with a very obsolete longitudiual depression. Elytra 

 considerably longer than the thorax, above not quite flat, broadest 

 at the apex, concolorous. Abdomen rather short, not quite of 

 the length of the anterior part of the body, finely punctulate, 

 more distinctly pubescent, slightly narrowed at the apex, the 

 apex piceous, edges of the segments beneath, concolorous. Legs 

 piceous, tibi^ and tarsi more dilute. 



Darker than Erichson's description would lead us to infer, but 

 appears to difier in no other respect. Wooler, South Shields, and 

 on the Team, near Ravensworth, — /. H. March. 



167. HoMALOTA, Mannerheim. 



1. H. GRAMINICOLA, GvClV. 



Erlchson, Gen. et Spec. Staph., 81, — Bolitochara graminicola 

 Stepli. Manual, No. 2785. 

 Under moss and rubbish, in damp places. In the marshy woods 

 on the Team, below liavensworth. — J. H. January — March. 



2. H. NIVALIS : Sub-linearis, nigra, nitida, suhdepressa; antennis 



nigris, articulo primo piceo ; tliorace coleop)teris latitudine 

 suhcequali, ad basin obsolete foveolato ; abdomine segmentis 

 tribus 2^rimis crebre, ceteris sparsim punctatis; pedibus 

 piceis. Long. 1^ lin. 

 H. nivalis, Kiesenwetter, secund. Exampl. penes me. 

 Beneath stones in mossy soil, towards the summit of Hedge- 

 hope. — /. H. 



Allied to H. graminicola, but considerably smaller, and having 

 the antennjB somewhat differently constructed; black, shining, 

 sub-depressed, sub-linear, with a thin dark griseous pubescence; 

 antennae about the length of the head and thorax, less gracile 

 than in H. graminicola, the joints rather closely set, and con 

 siderably thickened towards the tip, the thickened joints short 

 cup-shaped, the terminal one larger, slightly lengthened-ovate, 

 scarcely as long as the two preceding, the tip acuminate, black, 

 the first joint piceous or nearly concolorous; palpi black, the 

 minute apical joint piceous; head somewhat rounded, narrower 

 than the thorax, very finely punctulate, with, in some specimens. 



