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and rather strongly punctured ; shining, but with a well 

 marked pubescence. The abdomen ia black and shining, 

 with the segments two to four distinctly but not densely 

 punctured ; fifth segment very sparingly punctured, sixth 

 almost impunctate. Legs yellow. 



In the male, the ventral plate of the seventh segment 

 of the abdomen is narrower and more produced than in 

 the female, its apex forming as it were the half of an oval. 



Rare. Found at Shirley Common near London, and in 

 moss in different parts of Scotland; Dumfries, Strath 

 Cannich. 



The remarkable terminal joint of the antennae of this 

 species, should prevent its being confounded with any 

 other of this section. 



Ohs. I. — I am indebted to Herr Scriba for an opportu- 

 nity of examining Herr Fuss's type of H. silvicola ; it is 

 undoubtedly a female of the present species, with longer 

 thorax and longer antennae than the average of specimens, 

 the latter are also less thickened towards the apex than 

 usual in this species. 



06s, II. — H. silvicola must be closely allied to H. mi- 

 cans, Muls. {hijiinoriim, Kies.) to which species indeed I 

 formerly referred a very large and fine female specimen, 

 found by me in Inverness-shire. I have never had an 

 opportunity of examining an authentic example of H. mi- 

 cans or liyiynorum, all the specimens I have seen named as 

 that species being varieties of the present insect. Thom- 

 son's description of Lioghita hypnormn seems to me also 

 clearly to point to the species I have described above. 



32. Homalota vicina. 



Nigra, nitida, elytris fuscis disco testaceis, pedibus 

 fusco-testaceis, femoribus obscurioribus, subtiliter punc- 

 tata; thorace transversim subquadrato ; abdomine supra 

 parce subtiliter punctate, segmento 2° dorsali medio 

 tuberculo parvo. Long. If lin. 



Mas; abdomine segmento 2° tuberculo evidentiore, 

 7° dorsali subtiliter granulate, margine apicali medio 

 obscure acuminate. 



Fe7ti. ; abdomine segmento 2° tuberculo minore, 7° 

 ventrali medio late obsolete emarginato. 



