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Common in moss in the hilly districts of Scotland. 



Ohs. — As H. Auhei is in some respects intermediate be- 

 tween eremita and gemina, I have associated the three 

 species together in the present position, as being, per- 

 haps, the one least open to objection for them. The 

 transverse and broad thorax separates H. eremita from 

 the elongatula group; the stouter and more developed 

 antennae, the flatter and more parallel form, from H. fungi. 



65. Homalota Auhei. 



Nigro-fusca, antennarum basi pedibusque sordide tes- 

 taceis; capite canaliculate, thorace multo minore; hoc 

 transverse, canaliculate ; abdomine supra segmentis 2-5 

 confertim subtiliter punctatis, 6° parce punctate. Long, 

 li lin. 



H. Auhei, Brisout, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1860, p. 389. 



A good deal like H. gemina, but twice the size, and with 

 the thorax channelled, and the fifth segment of the ab- 

 domen punctured. Also much like some of the varieties 

 of H. volans, but with shorter and broader thorax, and 

 more closely punctured abdomen. Antennae longer than 

 the head and thorax, slightly thickened towards the apex, 

 of a pitchy colour, with the two or three basal joints paler ; 

 two and three of nearly equal length, four to ten differ- 

 ing but little in length, four rather slender, longer than 

 broad, five to nine also each longer than broad, ten about 

 as long as broad ; eleventh joint half as long again as the 

 tenth. Head much smaller than the thorax, round, a 

 little wider behind the eyes, finely and indistinctly punc- 

 tured, with a distinct longitudinal channel, sometimes 

 short and sometimes longer (the male probably); man- 

 dibles and palpi pitchy. The thorax is but little narrow- 

 er than the elytra, nearly half as broad again as long, the 

 sides gently rounded, almost more narrowed in front than 

 behind, at the base in the middle with an obscure im- 

 pression, from which proceeds a central longitudinal 

 channel, fine and not very distinct; closely and finely 

 punctured. Elytra about one-third or fourth longer than 

 the thorax, closely and finely punctured. Abdomen with 

 segments two three and four finely and densely punc- 

 tured, fifth segment rather more sparingly punctured, 

 sixth very sparingly punctured. Legs dirty testaceous. 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1869. — -PAKT II. (mAY). 



