Homalota.] STAPHYLiNiDa:. . ' 1]:'. 



tes/e H. R. AV.). A rather broad, eloiigatOj parallel, flat species, 

 distinguished by the strongly channelled head and thorax in male, and 

 the comparatively elongate eleventh joint of the antennae in both sexes ; 

 black, anterior parts dull, elytra fuscous, or dark yellowish brown ; head 

 subquadrate, plainly channelled in male, finely puucturc'd ; antennai 

 rather slender, fuscous with lighter base, third joint not quite so long as 

 second, fourth rather small about as long as In-oad, 5-10 slightly 

 transverse, eleventh proportionally long about three times as long as 

 tenth ; thorax distinctly transverse, rounded in front, finely and closely 

 punctured, channelled, the channel in the male being entire, in the 

 female more or less abbreviated in front ; elytra plainly longer than 

 thorax, finely and rather thickly punctured; hind body with segments 

 2-4 finely, and rather closely, punctured, fifth more sparingly punctured, 

 sixth nearly impunctate ; legs light yellow. L. 2| mm. 



Male as above, with the dorsal plate of seventh segment of hind body 

 with thickened margin, feebly emirginate and very obsoletely crenulate ; 

 female with forehead and thorax rather finely ciliated on their central 

 line. 



In fungri, moss, dead leaves, dead animals, &c. ; rather widely distributed, hut rare ; 

 Darentli Wooil, St. Mary Craj', Gravesenil, Woottou, Tonbriilge, Richmond, 

 Wcybridse, Mioklehain, Putney, Esher, Shirley, Tilirate Forest; Deal; Hastings; 

 Wincliester; Biruiin<rhain district (under bones, &c.) ; Bewdley Forest; Manchester; 

 Holy Island (J. J. Walker). Scotland, local, Forth and Solway districts; Ireland, 

 near Waterford (Power). 



K. nigricornis, Thorns. {Thomsnni, Jans., Atlieta mgricorvis, 

 Thorns., Trcmma'cia nigricornis, Muls. et Rey). Allied to H. dicisa, but 

 distinguished by its somewhat broader form, especially in female, and 

 darker colour, especially of the elytra, and also by the shorter list joint 

 of antennae ; black, with elytra fuscous black, finely and indistinctly 

 punctured, head finely punctured, in male more or less depressed, but not 

 channelled ; antennae rather long, slightly thickened towards apex, 

 black, with the basal joint pitchy, joint-'. 2-3 about equal, fourth about 

 as long as broad, fifth slightly, 6-10 evidently transverse, eleventh 

 nearly twice as long as tenth, thorax about half as broad again as long, 

 with sides rounded in front, and scarcely narrowed behind, male with a 

 broad depression on disc, female sometimes, but not always, Avith an 

 abbreviated channel before scutellum ; elytra longer than thorax, finely 

 and closely punctured ; hind body with segments 2-4 finely and 

 moderately thickly punctured, fifth segment very sparingly and finely 

 punctured, sixth nearly impunctate ; legs pitchy yellow, femora darker 

 than tibiae. L. 2| mm. 



Male with the posterior margin of the dorsal plate of the seventh 

 abdominal segment slightly excavated. 



At sap of felled trees, in vPffetable refuse, fungi, &c. ; not uncommon, bnt local and 

 not abundant; Darenth Wood, Shirley, Ksher, Weybridge, Richmond Park, 

 Mickleham, Strcatham (in Cossns-burrows) ; Tonbriilge ; Glanvilles Wotton; New 

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