60 !Mr. D. Sharp's Cdiitrih^ttions to the 



cate towni'ds llio n]irx, finely and not rlensely punctured, 

 tlieir hind margin ahnost stniight. Hind body rather 

 slender, ])ale yellow at the hase, with the oth and Gth ?e<i;- 

 ments black, the 7th reddish, the a])OX again dark, tlie 

 basal seojnients finely, indistinctly and not closely ])unc- 

 tured, the a])ical ones inipinictate. Le<|;s pale yellow. 



(iarrao; three individuals found in fungus on the 

 11th November, 1874, by Dr. Trail. I see no characters 

 from which to inler their sex. 



IIoMALOTA. 



It would not Ijc easy at the ]n-escnt moment to say what 

 the above word represents: to Erichson and Kraatz it 

 represented a vast num])er of si)ecies of minute Stapln/li- 

 rudcB ; to C. J. Thomson a single species, viz. Aleucharn 

 j)lana, Gyll. ; while to Key it appears to have two ditt'crent 

 and yet simultaneous meanings ; first, as representing 

 about forty-five species of French Aleoc/iaridce, and the 

 second, with the affix " vcru^'' as representing only ten of 

 those forty-five sj)ecies. 



As to the species here described, I use the word in the 

 general sense of Kraatz and Erichson ; for the first five of 

 the six species here described Avould no doubt have been 

 referred by those authors to the genus Hoinulota ; the 

 other species, hoAvever, //. culpa, is anomalous, inas- 

 much as tlie basal joint of the hiiul tarsus is more elongate 

 than is supposed to be the case with Ilomalota : but, as in 

 the present state of confusion as to the nomenclature of 

 the groups of species of Aleochan'dce, I decline to be 

 responsible for a new generic name, I have had no option 

 but to refer this as well as the other species to the genus 

 Jlo)ualota. 



1. Ilomalota capta, n. sj). Xigra, sat nltida, pedlbus 

 testaceis, antennarum basi fusco-testaceo ; antennis sat 

 brevibus ; ca])ite fere trausverso, vcrtice Icviter imjiresso ; 

 prothorace valde trausverso, dorso minus distincte cum 

 elytris, crebrc sul)tlUter ])unctatis, his illo longioribus ; al)- 

 domine basi sid)tiliter crebrc piuictato, apice fere hevigato. 

 Long. Corp. ^ lin. 



Antenna? rather short, and not stout, black, with the 

 base paler, a little thickened towards the extremity ; 

 1st joint thick, and nuu-h longer than 2nd ; 3rd lather 

 short and stout, shorter than 2nd ; 4th to lOtli scarcely 



