138 ■ STAPH YLiNiDiE. [^Homolota. 



joint pitchy, moderately short, but not stout, joints 2-3 rather long 

 about equal, 4-10 each very slightly broader than the preceding, but the 

 last of them are only slightly transverse, eleventh stout, about as long as 

 the two preceding together ; thorax at base about as broad as elytra, 

 half as broad again as long, narrowed in front, rather closely and finely 

 punctured, obsoletely channelled ; elytra not much longer than thorax, 

 closely and distinctly punctured ; hind body with segments 2-4 rather 

 closely and distinctly, 5-6 more sparingly, punctured ; legs pitchy 

 testaceous, intermediate tibiae each Avith a short outstanding seta in the 

 middle. L. 2-2 1 mm. 



Male with the ventral plate of seventh segment of hind body a little 

 produced in middle, female with the same part broadly emarginate, and 

 furnished with distinct black cilia. 



In moss and dead leaves, generally in the spring; not common; Notting Hill, 

 Caterham, Micklebam, Birch Wood, Hampstead, Shirley, Cowley, Esher; Lit- 

 tlington, Sussex ; Smallheath and Knowle, near Birmingham ; Scotland, scarce, Forth 

 district only. 



K. montivag'ans, "WolL (puJchra, Kr., Colpodota pul('Jira,'M.n\s. et 

 Rey, sub-gen, Acrotona, Thoms.). Black, with the thorax fuscous, 

 paler at sides, elytra testaceous with a large indistinct patch around 

 scutellum, and the parts towards apical angles more or less broadly 

 infuscate, apex of hind body pitchy or yellowish ; head black and 

 shining, indistinctly punctured ; antennae rather slender, yelloAvish, 

 first joint stout, 2-3 of about equal length, 4-10 nearly equal in length, 

 the last slightly transverse, eleventh about as long as the two preceding 

 too-ether ; thorax at base as broad as elytra, more than half as broad 

 again as long, narrowed in front, sparingly punctured, very indistinctly 

 impressed in middle of base ; elytra plainly longer than thorax, 

 rather coarsely but shallowly punctured ; hind body black and 

 shining, moderately narrowed behind, segments 2-4 sparingly but 

 distinctly punctured, fifth more sparingly punctured, sixth almost 

 impunctate, very long; outstanding setae of segments distinct; legs 

 yellow, tibiae without setae. L. 2| mm. 



Sexual differences obscure ; male with ventral plate of seventh 

 segment of hind body narrowed and rather more produced than in 



female. 



In moss, haystack refuse, dead leaves, &c. ; rare ; Sheerness, Charlton (Kent), 

 Eo'ham (Surrey), Red Hill, Hanwell, Cowley (in a cow-house), Birdbrook (Essex) ; 

 The Holt, Faruham ; Littlington (Sussex) ; Horning Fen; Knowle, near Birmingham 

 (cow-shed refuse) ; Scotland, rare. Forth district (Braid Hills, Edinburgh). 



As Wollaston's name has the priority over Kraatz's (as Dr. Sharp has 

 pointed out, Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. 230), it must be retained ; in the catalogue 

 of Heyden, Reitter, and Weise it is not even mentioned as a synonym 

 of pulchra, under which also H. Sharpi is included as synonymous with 

 it : as however, Dr. Kraatz considered H. Sharpi to be quite distinct 

 from H. pulchra after having himself examined Mr. Rye's specimen, 



