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postice hand angustato; elytris hoc paulo longioribus; 

 abdomine supra eequaliter dense subtiliter punctate. 

 Long. 1^ lin. 



Mas; abdomine segmento 7° ventrali pavilulum pro- 

 ducto ; capite evidenter feveolato. 



Fern. ; segmento 7° ventrali apice medio anguste sed 

 distincte exciso. 



H. luteipes, Er. Kiif. Brand, i. 320; Gen. et Spec. 

 Staph. 88 ; Kr. Ins. Deutsch. ii. 224 ; Wat. Cat. Dilacra 

 luteipes, Th. Sk. Col. iii. 32. 



Somewhat like a small H. elongatula, but not so de- 

 pressed, and narrower in front. Antennae pitchy, 

 elongate, rather slender, slightly thickened towards the 

 apex ; joints two and three of about equal length, 

 slender ; four much shorter than three, five longer than 

 four; five to ten differing but little in length, and each 

 very slightly broader than the preceding one, none of 

 the joints transverse ; eleventh joint rather long, ovate, 

 half as long again as the tenth. Head narrower than the 

 thorax, not much more than half the breadth of the 

 elytra, with a fovea in the middle, indistinct in the 

 female, distinct in the male, finely and pretty densely 

 punctured. Thorax narrower than the elytra, sub- 

 quadrate, its length about equal to its breadth, not nar- 

 rowed behind, even a little narrowed towards the front, 

 closely and finely punctured, not channelled, with a very 

 small and indistinct fovea in front of the scutellum. 

 Elytra ferruginous, darker towards the base ; a little 

 longer than the thorax, closely and finely punctured. 

 All the segments of the abdomen above are very closely 

 and finely punctured, the sixth not at all more sparingly 

 than the others. The legs are bright yellow. 



In the male the antennee are a little more slender than 

 in the female ; the fovea on the head is more distinct, 

 and the seventh segment of the abdomen underneath is 

 a little produced, with its apex rounded; while in the 

 female the hind margin of this segment is, in the middle, 

 narrowly but distinctly emarginate. 

 Rare. Horning and Hammersmith. 

 Obs. — The dense punctuation of the abdomen, together 

 with the structure of the head and thorax, easily distin- 

 guish this from all other species. Thomson remarks that 

 it bears a little resemblance to Oxypoda longiuscula. 

 Specimens sent by Kraatz to the British Museum agree 

 entirely with our English ones. 



