128 Dr. Sharp's Revision of the 



28. Homalota vestita. 



Nigra, elytris ferrugineis, antennarum basi plus mi- 

 nusve pedibusque testaceis, corpore antice pube flaves- 

 cente sat dense evidentius vestito ; capite et thorace sat 

 fortiter distincte punctatis, hoc basin versus evidenter 

 angustato ; abdomine supra basi parce punctato. Long. 

 If lin. 



Mas; abdomine segmento 7° ventrali vix producto,, 

 apice rotundato. 



Fern. ; segmento 7° ventrali haud producto, apice 

 medio late haud profunde emarginato. 



Pcederus vestitus, Grav. Mon. 140 ; H. vestita, Er. Gen. 

 et Spec. Staph. 84 j Kr. Ins. Deutsch. ii. 208; Wat. Cafc. 

 Thinohcena quisqtiiliarum, Th. Sk. Col. iii. 59. 



This species is distinguished from its allies by the 

 punctuation of its head, thorax, and elytra, which is 

 more distinct and sparing than usual. The pubescence 

 with which it is clothed is yellowish, and like the 

 punctuation, is more conspicuous, though less dense, than 

 in the neighbouring species. 



The antennae are moderately stout, but little thickened 

 towards the apex, varying in colour, but with the basal 

 joints yellow, and rather paler in colour than the apical 

 ones ; joints two and three of nearly equal length ; four 

 to ten differing but little in length, the first of them 

 longer than broad, the last not quite so long as broad; 

 eleventh joint half as long again as the tenth. The 

 head is narrower than the thorax, black and shining, 

 distinctly but not closely punctured, the punctures not 

 covering the central part. The thorax is narrower than 

 the elytra, its length about equal to its breadth, distinctly 

 narrowed behind, with a central longitudinal channel 

 varying in distinctness, rather coarsely, but not close- 

 ly punctured. Elytra obscurely brown, or yellowish- 

 brown, a little longer than the thorax, and moderately 

 closely and coarsely punctured. The abdomen is black 

 and shining, with the apex obscurely paler, the basal 

 segments are sparingly punctured, the fifth even more 

 sparingly than the fourth, sixth nearly impunctate. The 

 legs are of a yellowish colour, the posterior tarsi rather 

 long and moderately stout, with the claws more deve- 

 loped than usual. 



