British Species of Homalota. 199 



Scarce. Croydon, Darenth, Chatham, Brighton. 



It is remarkable that this species has two very distinct 

 habitats, viz., at the sap of trees, and under sea- weed on 

 the coasts; I have never found it except under these 

 conditions, and can find no difference whatever between 

 the specimens from these different localities. Kraatz 

 mentions it only as a coast species. 



Ohs. — This species is allied to H. .vanthopns, but is 

 larger and broader, has the base of the antennae black, 

 and the triangular patches on the elytra much more dis- 

 tinctly marked. 



92. Somalota fungicola. 



Nigra, antice haud nitida, antennarum basi pedibusque 

 testaceis, elytris brunneis ; thorace transverso ; abdomine 

 segmentis 2-4 subtiliter vix crebre punctatis, 5° parce 

 punctato, 6° fere lasvigato. Long, circiter 1^ lin. 



Mas J antennis articulo 3° incrassato ; abdomine seg- 

 mento 7° dorsali apice truncate, et creniilato ; ventrali 

 producto, apicem versus paulo angustato. 



Fern.; abdomine segmento 7° ventrali haud producto, 

 apice lato, leviter rotundato. 



H. fungicola, Th. Ofv. Vet. Ac. Forh. 1852, p. 142; 

 Kr. Ins. Deutsch. ii. 274; Atheta fungicola, Th. Sk. Col. 

 iii. 76. H. nigricoDiis, Wat. Cat. H. socialis, Er. Gen. 

 et Spec. Staph. 102 {ex parte) . 



Rather flat, the fore parts dull, the antennae stoutish, 

 and the elytra brown ; but a very variable and puzzling 

 species. The antennas are rather stout, two or three 

 basal joints yellowish, gradually thickened from the fourth 

 to the eighth joint, but not after that; joint three dis- 

 tinctly longer than two, slender in the female, stout in 

 the male; four comparatively small, scarcely or not at 

 all broader than three, five considerably broader than 

 four, from this to the seventh or eighth each slightly 

 stouter than its predecessor, five to ten distinctly but 

 not strongly transverse; eleventh joint rather pointed, 

 about as long as the two preceding together. The head 

 is narrower than the thorax, broad and short, dullish, 

 finely and not closely punctured. The thorax is but little 

 narrower than the elytra, fully half as broad again as long, 



