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36. Hoonalota Halohrectha. 



Fusco-nigra, pube flavescenti distincte vestita, sat 

 nitida, antennis, ore, pedibus, anoque rufo-testaceis ; 

 capite distincte punctulato ; tliorace subquadrato, basin 

 versus ang'ustato ; elytris thorace longioribus, confertim 

 distincte punctatis ; abdomine supra segmentis 2-4 parce 

 punctatis, 5 et 6 fere laevigatis. Long. 1^-1^ lin. 



Mas ; abdomine segmento 7° dorsali apice obtuse acu- 

 minato, ventrali apice rotundato. 



Fern,. ; segmento 7° ventrali apice latiore, medio fere 

 emarginato. 



H. atricilJa, Scriba, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1866, p. 290 {nee 

 Er. Gen. et Spec. Staph.) . H. algce, var.. Hardy, Cat, 

 Col. North. & Dur. p. 116. H. maritima, Wat. Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond. 1863, p. 138. Halohrectha flavipes, Th. 

 Sk. Col. iii. 50. 



Var. — Minor, elytris thorace paulo longioribu.s, thorace 

 lateribus antice magis rotundatis. 



Of an obscure blackish or pitchy colour, with the 

 elytra browner, the legs, extremity of abdomen, antennae, 

 and mouth, yellowish; the anterior parts with a distinct, 

 moderately dense, depressed, fine, but rather rigid, yel- 

 lowish pubescence. The antennas are about as long as 

 the head and thorax, gently thickened towards the apex, 

 with a moderately distinct exserted pubescence, reddish- 

 yellow, a little infuscate towards the apex ; joints two 

 and three long and slender, three not quite so long as 

 two ; four to ten, each one a little shorter and broader 

 than its predecessor, the first of them is longer than 

 broad, the last of them (eight to ten) broader than long. 

 The head is scarcely narrower than the thorax, suborbi- 

 culate, with the upper surface convex, blackish, with the 

 palpi and parts of the mouth yellow, distinctly and rather 

 coarsely, but shallowly and moderately densely punc- 

 tured, the punctures being real depressions ; with a fine 

 yellowish pubescence. The thorax is considerably nar- 

 rower than the elytra, its width rather greater than its 

 length, the sides rounded in front, then slightly but dis- 

 tinctly narrowed behind, moderately closely punctured, 

 and with a yellowish pubescence, the punctuation finer 

 than that of the head. The elytra are a third or fourth 

 longer than the thorax, of a brownish or pitchy-black 



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