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Mucli resembling the preceding, but smaller, and still more 

 linear, sub-depressed, of a deeper black, and less shining. Antennae 

 about the length of the head and thorax, thin, slightly thickened 

 exteriorly, joints 4 — 10 very short, nodose, the last oblong-ovate, 

 of the length of the two preceding, sub-acuminate, black. Palpi 

 black. Head a little narrower than the thorax, rotundate, thickly 

 but indistinctly punctate, a slight channel on the front above 

 Thorax as in the preceding, sides not pilose. Elytra longer than 

 the thorax, rather flat, thickly and finely punctate, black. 

 Abdomen rather parallel, the sides scarcely pilose, thickly and 

 very finely punctate throughout. Legs fuscous or black, tarsi 

 yellowish, tibiae, and the base of the femora, occasionally more 

 dilute; bristles on the tibiae imperceptible. 



Common, in company with H. cauta. 



18. H. LONGicoRNis, Grav. 



Ericlison, Gen. et Spec. Staph, 129. — Heer, Fn. Col. Helv., 

 i., 323. — Aleochara longicornis, Steph. Illust, Mand., v., 

 114. 

 Var. Aleochara consimilis, Kirhy, Steph. Illust, Mand., v., 116. 

 H. longicornis, var. a., Heer, Fn. Col. Helv., i., 323. 

 Not very common. Ravensworth, Gibside, and South Shields. — • 

 J. H. Long Benton.—^. J, B. March— June. 



The tibiae are furnished with two long bristles, and the sides 

 of the thorax, and abdomen, and the apex of the latter are pilose. 

 The elytra and femora are often nigro-piceous. 



19. H. LiviDiPENNis, Mannerh. 



Erichson, Gen. et Spec. Staph., 129. — Oxypoda lividipennis, 

 Steph. Illust, Mand., v., 432. 

 Not common. Bamburgh, Beadnell, Wooler, above Swalwell, 

 and at South Shields. — /. H. Hartley and Long Benton. — T. 

 J. B. March— May. 



20. H. HYGROPHILA : Fusifovmis ; nigra, nitidula, creberrime 



punctulata; thorace transversa, suhorbicidato, cumqice 

 elytris pariter minus convexis; his fusco-piceis vel nigris; 



