152 Dr. Sharp's lievision of the 



Thorax but little narrower than the elytra, its length but 

 little less than its breadth, narrowed behind, but not 

 greatly so ; dull, with a broad central longitudinal im- 

 pression, sculpture indistinct. The elytra are not a third 

 longer than the thorax, rather more shining than it, 

 sculpture dense and distinct, consisting of minute granu- 

 lations. The abdomen is moderately shining, segments 

 two to four are closely and distinctly punctured, fifth 

 segment more sparingly punctured, sixth nearly impunc- 

 tate, but with granulations in the male. The thighs are 

 pitchy, the tibiae and tarsi pitchy-testaceous; posterior 

 tarsi short and stout. 



In the male, the sixth segment is sprinkled above with 

 granulations, not very conspicuously, however ; the 

 seventh segment has the hind margin furnished with four 

 small projecting tubercles, the middle ones more dis- 

 tinct than the lateral. 



In the female, the sixth and seventh segments are 

 simple above. 



Found in marshy places, in company with H. inccma ; 

 Horning, Hammersmith, &c. 



47. Homalota cequata. 



Antice opaca, nigra, antennis fuscis, basi pedibusque 

 testaceis, elytris brunneis ; thorace subquadrato, late 

 longitudinaliter impresso ; abdomine segmentis 2-4 crebre 

 punctatis, 5° magis sparsim punctate, 6° fere Isevigato. 

 Long. 1| lin. 



Mas; abdomine segmento 5° dorsali medio granulis 

 elevatis duobus, 6° granulis octo, 7° apice denticulis 4 

 instructo. 



H. cequata, Br. Kiif. Bi'and. i. 323 ; Gen. et Spec. 

 Staph. 92; Kr. Ins. Deutsch. ii. 238; Wat. Cat.; Di- 

 narcea cequata, Th. Sk. Col. ii. 290. 



Antennae rather stout, about as long as the head and 

 thorax, testaceous at the base, pitchy towards the apex ; 

 first joint stout, moderately long, three a little longer 

 than two ; four to ten each a little broader than its pre- 

 decessor, five to ten each broader than long ; eleventh 

 joint quite twice as long as the tenth. Palpi yellow. 

 Head but little narrower than the thorax, flat, quite dull, 

 the front depressed in the male, sculpture indistinct. 



