IlomaJoia.] staphylinid.e. 129 



npar Biniiiiisliaiu (uiuU'i' bones) ; Norfcliumberlaiid district, Wallingtoii (Power) ; 

 Scotluiid, local, Solway, Tay, and SJoray districts. 



K. cinnamoptera, Tlioms. (AtJieta cinnamo2^tera, Thorns., Homa- 

 h)ta (Dimefrofn) putrida, Kraatz (Muls. et Key 1 )). Black Avith the 

 front parts dull, elytra brown ; head and thorax sometimes with a very 

 slight brassy reflection; head somewhat large and coarsely punctured; 

 antenna? rather long, longer than head and thorax, pitchy, with lighter 

 base, joints 2-3 rather long, 4-9 as long as or longer than broad, tenth 

 transverse, eleventh as long as the two preceding together ; thorax; trans- 

 verse, distinctly, closely and somewhat roughly punctured, with a few 

 plain exserted seta?, channelled in middle, the channel extending the 

 whole length of thorax or ablireviated ; elytra longer than thorax, 

 distinctly and somewhat rugosely punctured ; hind body black and 

 shining, segments 2-4 finely and rather closely punctured, fifth more 

 sparingly, sixth very finely and sparingly, punctured, sides and apex 

 with distinct exserted set?e ; legs yellow, middle and posterior tibiae, with 

 two seta?, one near the knee, another nearer tarsus, the latter longer. 

 L. 2| mm. 



Male with the hind margin of dorsal plate of seventh segment of 

 hind body with external angles less rounded than in female. 



In dung, carcases, decaying fungi, &c. ; local; Hampstead, Slieoruess, A^htead, 

 Esher, Leith Hill, Shirley, Richmond Park; Tonbridge; Birmingham district; 

 Needwood Forest ; Dean Forest ; Northumberland district, Wallington (Powei) ; 

 Scotland, common, Solway, Forth, Dee, Tay, and Moray districts. 



K. fuscipes, Heer (fimorum, Eris., Colpodota (SoJetu'a) fmonwi, 

 Muls. et Eey, sub-gen. Acrotona, Thorns.). This species comes very 

 near the preceding, but is smaller, darker, rather more sparingly punc- 

 tured, and with shorter antennae ; head rather sti-ongly punctured ; 

 antennae slightly thickened towards extremity, pitchy, with the base 

 sometimes obscurely lighter, third joint almost as long as second, fourth 

 small, 6-10 slightly, but not strongly, transverse ; thorax as broad at 

 base as elytra, broader than long, rather distinctly punctured, with a 

 fovea before scutellum, and a more or less distinct central channel ; 

 elytra a little longer than thorax, fomewhat rugosely punctured, obscurely 

 brown or reddish ; hind body shining, finely and rather thickly punctured 

 towards base, sparingly punctured or almost smooth at apex ; legs testa- 

 ceous, intermediate and posterior tibiae with two exserted setae, one nenr 

 middle, and one a little above it. L. 21 mm. 



Very raie ; taken by Mr. Crotch, probably in Norfolk ; in France it is rather 

 common in dry fungi md dung-heaps in the middle of fields, near Lyons, and nlso nenr 

 Paris. 



According to ]\rulsant and Eey it difi"ers from //. snhmmata by the 

 obscurely testaceous colour of its elytra, and by having tlie posterior 

 angles of thorax a little less pronounced, and from H. clientnln l)y its 

 thorax being always furrowed, and by the dark l)ase of the antennae ; 



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