192 Dr. Sharp's Revision of the 



In the male, the last joint of the antennas is longer 

 than in the female, the seventh segment of the abdomen 

 has the hind margin of the upper plate quite straight in 

 the middle, but not visibly crenulate ; the ventral plate is 

 also more produced, and its posterior margin more round- 

 ed, than in the female. 



Rare. Rannoch, Edinburgh, Inverness-shire, Thornhill. 



Ohs. — This species is in some respects intermediate 

 between H. xanthoptera and valida ; it is distinguished 

 from H. valida by its more obscure colour, paler anten- 

 nae, less coarsely punctured elytra, and the non-crenulate 

 seventh abdominal segment of the male. 



86. Homalota valida. 



Nigra, nitidula, antennarum basi pedibusque testaceis, 

 elytris brunneis, crebre evidenter punctatis ; thorace 

 transverse, basi impress© ; abdomine supra segmentis 2-4 

 parce punctatis, 5 et 6 fere Igevigatis, ano obscure brun- 

 neo. Long. 2 lin. 



Mas; abdomine segmento 7° dorsali medio crenulato. 



H. valida, Kr. Ins. Deutsch. ii. 274. 



A fine large species, the smallest specimens equal in 

 size to H. icanthoptera. Antennas pitchy, with the three 

 basal joints dark yellow, rather long and stout, slightly 

 thickened towards the apex, with a sparing exserted 

 pubescence; joint three rather longer than two, four to 

 ten each slightly broader than its predecessor; in the 

 male each longer than broad, in the female about as long 

 as broad; the terminal joint is elongate and pointed, 

 rather more than the length of the two preceding. The 

 head is black and shining, finely and sparingly punctured. 

 Thorax a little narrower than the elytra, nearly half as 

 broad again as long ; black and shining, rather finely and 

 not closely punctured, with a broad shallow impression 

 in front of the scutellum, and sometimes with a fine in- 

 distinct channel. Elytra about a fourth longer than the 

 thorax, shining brown, a little darker about the scutellum 

 and towards the external angles, strongly and closely 

 punctured, and with a well marked pubescence. The 

 abdomen is black and shining, scarcely paler at the ex- 

 tremity, segments two to four sparingly but rather coarse- 

 ly pvinctured, five and six nearly impunctate. Legs 

 yellow. 



