British Species of Honialota. 183' 



punctured and pubescent, with a short, indistinct, central 

 longitudinal channel behind. Elytra a little longer than 

 the thorax, punctuation and pubescence distinct but fine. 

 Abdomen black, with the apex paler, the basal segments 

 very finely and indistinctly punctured, the apical ones 

 smooth. Legs yellow. 



The male has a small fovea on the middle of the head, 

 and the seventh segment of the abdomen has the ventral 

 plate rather longer and narrower, and its apex more 

 rounded, than in the female. 



On one occasion, I found this species in numbers on 

 the Braid Hills, Edinburgh, in a ditch among dead leaves 

 early in the spring. I have not seen any other British 

 specimens. 



Obs. — I have not seen a specimen of H. validiuscula 

 named by Kraatz ; though there are several discrepancies 

 when compared with his description, I think the species 

 above described will prove to be identical with Kraatz's. 

 Its less parallel form, differently shaped head, and more 

 distinct punctuation and pubescence, readily distinguish 

 it from H. exilis. 



78. Homalota parallela. 



Nigra, antennis pedibus anoque testaceis, elytris 

 brunneis, confertim subtiliter punctata, tenuiter pubes- 

 cens ; thorace transverse, elytris hoc paulo longioribus ; 

 abdomine basi parce subtiliter punctate, apice Isevigato. 

 Long, vix I lin. 



Mas; abdomine segmento 7° supra et infra margine 

 posteriore magis rotundato. 



Bolitochara parallela, Man. Bull. Mosc. 1844, p. 173 

 {teste Kraatz); H. parallela, Kr. Ins. Deutsch. ii. 262; 

 Wat. Cat.; Amidohia parallela, Th. Sk. Col. ii. 295. 



Likely to be confounded only with H. analis, but 

 smaller than the smallest specimens of that species, and 

 readily distinguished by its differently shaped head, and 

 impunctate and shining extremity of the alDdomen. The 

 antennse are yellowish, rather stout, a little thickened 

 towards the apex; joint two longer than three, four 

 nearly quadrate, five to ten transverse ; eleventh not so 

 long as the two preceding together. Thorax a little 

 narrower than the elytra, about a third broader than 



