Ilomalota.'] staphtltnid-e. 89 



elytra about the length of thorax, and rather more distinctly punctured ; 

 hind body with segments 2-4 sparingly punctured, 5-G almost impunc- 

 tate and sliiiiing ; legs yellow. L. 2f-3 mm. 



Sexual diflerences of hind body hard to distinguish, but the male 

 has the head broadly impressed. 



Under bark of dead trees, in moss on tree trnnks, &c. ; locnl, but not uncommon. 

 London district generally ; Horning Fen and other fen localities ; K w Forest ; 

 Knowle, near Birniingliam ; Cannock Chase; Sherwood Forest; not recurtled from 

 Northumberland district. Scotland, local, Forth district-. 



This species resembles H. ccquafa, but is less robust and smaller, and 

 more shining, and has the hind body more sparingly punctured 



K. pilicornis, Thoms. (pilom, Ivr., Atheta pilicornu^ Thorns., 

 xantliopus, Muls. et Eey. H. E. W., nee u-anthopus, Thoms,). Broader 

 and more robust than the preceding, and with longer elytra ; head black, 

 rather broad and short, shining, sparingly and finely punctured ; the 

 species is easily distinguished by its antennae, which are vcjrticillate 

 pilose, having each of the segments furnished with long projecting 

 hairs, much more so than is usual with memliers of the genus ; their 

 colour is yellowish with basal joints clear yellow ; they are rather stout, 

 and gently thickened towards apex, joints 1-3 elongate, 4-6 about as long 

 as broad, 7-10 transverse, eleventh half as long again as tenth ; thorax 

 nearly as broad as elytra, black or pitchy brown, slightly transverse, 

 not thickly pimctured, with traces of channel in middle ; elytra brownish, 

 or reddish brown, rather longer than thorax, very finely punctured, 

 alutaceous ; hind body black and shining, testaceous at apex, segments 

 2-4 finely and diffusely punctured, fifth more sparingly, sixth almost 

 impunctate, sides and apex furnished with long outstanding hairs ; legs 

 clear yellow. L. 3-|^ mm. 



Male with dorsal plate of seventh segment with apex truncate, pos- 

 terior margin not quite straight, thickened, and indistinctly crenulate. 



Female with the seventh dorsal segment of hind body broadly and 

 obsoletely emarginate at apex, with the external angles acute, seventh 

 ventral segment emarginate in middle. 



Rare ; under bark, in moss, dead leaves, &c. ; Richmond Park, Surrey ; Hamp- 

 stead (Bishops Wood); Highgate ; Tilgate Forest; Needwood Forest (under holly 

 bark) ; Sherwood Forest ; Scotland, rare, under bark, Solway and Tay districts. 



Hi debilis, Er. {Atheta dehilis, Thoms., Hygroecia debilis, Muls. 

 et- Eey.). Eather a narrow species, pitchy black, with the elytra 

 brownish or yellowisli, and the apex of hind body testaceous ; the 

 thorax is sometimes lighter than the head; head short, but rather large, 

 finely and thickly punctured ; antennae testaceous, a little thickened 

 towards apex, joints 1-3 rather long, 4-5 rather slender, sixth about as 

 long as broad, 7-10 transverse, eleventh rounded, rather shorter 

 than usual ; thorax about as broad as elytra, slightly trans- 

 verse, finely and closely punctured, more or less indistinctly 

 channelled ; elytra plainly longer than thorax, finely and rather 



