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narrow depression at its apex ; thinly griseous pubescent, more 

 densely round the apex. Legs elongate, all the femora compressed, 

 the femora fusco-piceous. their tip more dilute, tarsi still more 

 so, the apex lighter, tarsi testaceous ; or gradually paler from the 

 femora outwards; hinder tarsi elongate. 



A single specimen taken near Long Benton, in March. — T. J. 

 B. Among gravel, near the foot bridge over Caer burn, on the 

 way to Langleyford. — J, H. 



Sahlberg describes the last joint of the antennae as obtuse at 

 the apex, and the elytra convex above, which is not the case in 

 our insects. 



The tibiae are usually testaceous, and the tint of the thighs 

 varies from pitchy to black. 



7. T. CARBONARiA, Mamierli. 



Atra, nitida, griseo-puhescens, antennis tenuihus nigris; 

 pedibus geniculis, tibiis apice, et tarsis pallide ferrugineis ; 

 capite subimpresso; tJiorace suhquadrato, postice foveolato. 

 Long. 1^ lin. 



Aleochara carbonaria, Sahib. Ins. Fenn., i., 35 L 

 About the size of T. atra, but more convex, the antennae shorter 

 and less gracile ; also resembling Homalota graminicola, but much 

 more finely punctured. Leaden black, head, thorax, and elytra 

 neatly punctured as if polished, shining, clothed with a rather 

 dense shining griseous pubescence, which makes it duller in 

 certain positions. Antennse rather short, somewhat longer than 

 the head and thorax, thinish, slightly thickened towards the 

 apex, the joints short, obconic, 9th and 10th slightly thicker, 

 not transverse, the last oblong ovate, about the length of the 

 two preceding, and slightly thicker, slightly acuminate ; entirely 

 black. Palpi black, the base scarcely piceous. Head a 

 little narrower than the thorax, sub-orbiculate, rather convex, 

 slightly longitudinally foveolate on the front, very thickly and 

 finely punctulate. Thorax short, scarcely longer than broad, 

 somewhat narrower than the elytra, subquadrate, neither narrowed 

 at the base nor the apex, the sides and the angles slightly rounded^ 

 sub-convex above, with a distinct fovea before the scutellum, 



