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than its predecessor, and distinctly transverse, penulti- 

 mate joints strongly transverse; eleventh joint large, as 

 long as the two preceding. Mandibles and palpi yellow. 

 Head black and shining, narrower than the thorax, rather 

 long in proportion to its width, moderately convex above, 

 without impression, impunctate, but with a slight pubes- 

 cence. Thorax quadrate, not quite so long as broad, the 

 sides nearly straight, scarcely perceptibly narrowed be- 

 hind, of a pitchy colour, almost impunctate, and with a 

 delicate pubescence. Elytra about a fourth longer than 

 the thorax, yellowish or brownish in colour, not entirely 

 impunctate, but with the sculpture scarcely visible, pubes- 

 cence sparing. Abdomen pitchy in the middle, paler at 

 the apex, and with the fifth and sixth segments rather 

 darker than the preceding ones, shining and impunctate. 



The three specimens of this species I have seen, are, 

 I think, all females ; they have the posterior margins of 

 the upper and under plates of the seventh abdominal seg- 

 ment gently rounded. 



Very rare. I have captured a specimen in the chalk- 

 pit at Charlton, in May, and it is also in Mr. Crotch's 

 collection. These specimens accord with an example of 

 H. splendens sent by Kraatz to the British Museum. 



59. Homalota cegra. 



Nitidula, subtilissime pubescens, vix visibiliter punc- 

 tata, picea, capite abdomineque nigro-piceis, pedibus 

 piceo-testaceis ; thorace transversim subquadrato, elytris 

 hoc longioribus. Long, vix 1 lin. 



n. cegra, Heer, Faun. Col. Helv. 595 ; Kr. Ins. Deutsch. 

 ii. 249 ; Wat. Cat. 



A small, dark-coloured, shining, almost impunctate 

 species, with delicate but distinct pubescence. Antennae 

 pitchy in colour, moderately stout, a little thickened to- 

 wards the apex; joint three not so long as two, four 

 about as long as broad, five to ten transverse, the first of 

 them slightly so, the last of them distinctly; eleventh 

 joint rather short and broad, not quite so long as the two 

 preceding together. Head black, with the mandibles and 

 palpi pitchy, a little narrower than the thorax, shining, 

 impunctate, and with a delicate pubescence. Thorax a 

 little narrower than the elytra, one-third broader than 



