8'4 CATALOGUE OF THE INSECTS OF 



black, shilling, with very indistinct pubescence. Antennae a little 

 longer than the head and thorax, rather slender, slightly thickened • 

 at the apex, 2nd and 3rd joints sub-equal, the rest short, obconic, 

 7 — 10 slightly transverse, the last scarcely thicker, elongate ovate, 

 moderately acuminate, black or nigro-fuscous, the basal joint, and 

 the bases of the 2nd and 3rd piceous, or several of the basal joints 

 testaceous. Palpi testaceous at the base, the tip fuscous. Head 

 rotundate, sunk into the thorax, and narrower than it, rather 

 convex, very finely punctulate, obsoletely longitudinally impressed. 

 Thorax not quite of the breadth of the elytra, sub-quadrate, scarcely 

 so long as broad, sides before the middle slightly rounded, scarcely 

 narrowed behind, anterior angles rounded, posterior obtuse, sub- 

 convex, an impression at the base connected with an elongate 

 channel, which is sometimes obsolete anteriorly. Elytra consider- 

 ably longer than the thorax, nearly equal in length and breadth, 

 flattish, depressed down the suture, thickly and exceedingly finely 

 punctulate, nigro-fuscous. Abdomen parallel, narrowed at the 

 tip, which is piceous, above with the first four segments closely 

 and thickly punctate, the two last segments more shining, sparingly 

 punctate, with the punctures in one sex raised into granulations. 

 Legs testaceous, posterior tarsi short. 



In marshy situations, not uncommon. On the Team, at 

 Ravensworth, Gibside, Marsden, Hartley, Long Benton, Dunstan- 

 borough Castle, banks of Wooler water, and of the Till. January — 

 October. 



14. H. ANALis, Grav, 



Erichson, Gen. et Spec. Staph., 114. — Bolitochara analis 

 Steph. Manual, No. 2793. — Aleochara inquinula, Kirby 

 Steph. Illust, Mand,, v., 128. — A. foveolata, Ih. I.e. — A. 

 nigro fusca, Ih. I.e., 129. 

 In moss, and at the roots of grass, common. 



lo. H. ANGUSTA, Steph. 



Aleochara angusta, Steph. Illust., Mand., v., 139. 

 Under sea-weed and stones, at South Shields, and Marsden. — 

 J. H. March. 



