NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 87 



ahdomine punctulato, segmentis ultimus vix Icevioribus; 



ultimis duohus interdum piceo -testaceis ; a7itennis rufo- 



testaceis, apicibus vix fuscescentihus ; palpis pedihusque 



pallide testaceis. Long. corp. lin. 1^. 

 JBomalota hygrophila, Hardy, MSS. 

 Under rubbish by the sides of streamlets ; banks of the Team, 

 Wooler water, &c. — J. H. 



Spindle-shaped ; black, shining ; head sub-triangulate, consider- 

 ably narrower than the thorax, finely punctulate, not impressed ; 

 antennas rather long and slender, longer than the head and thorax, 

 gradually thickening outwardly, the last joint about the length 

 of the two preceding, and not thicker than they, oval, and slightly 

 pointed, rufo-testaceous, sometimes duskier towards the tips; 

 palpi pale testaceous; thorax sub-orbicular, slightly transverse, 

 all the angles rounded, the posterior sub-depressed, only slightly 

 convex above, very finely and closely punctulate, the base not 

 impressed ; elytra sub-quadrate, a little broader behind, not much 

 longer than the thorax, and, excepting the depression down the 

 suture, nearly of the same degree of convexity ; very thickly and 

 more distinctly punctate, and less shining than the thorax, black 

 or fusco-piceous, in the latter case deepest tinted towards the 

 base, shortly griseous pubescent; abdomen gradually tapering 

 from the base to the tip, black, shining, the apex of the penulti- 

 mate, and the terminal one entirely sometimes testaceous or 

 piceous ; closely and thickly punctulate throughout ; the base of 

 the two last scarcely more obsoletely or sparsely; a few black 

 hairs at the lateral margins of the segments and several around 

 the apex; legs pale-testaceous. 



168. Phloeopora, Erichson. 

 1. P. REPTANS, Grav. 



Erichson, Gen. et Spec. Staph., 77. — Steph. Manual, No. 



2774. — Aleochara reptans, Gyll. Ins. Suec, ii,, 389. — 



Aleochara confinis, Steph. Illust., Mand., v., 127. 



Not common. Under bark of Scotch fir, at Eavensworth, of 



the willow, above Swalwell, of a dead elm, near Dunston hill, and 



of paling, at Gibside. — J. H. Gosforth. — T. J. B. Jan. — Aug. 



