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the sides gently rounded in front, the disc flat, some- 

 times obscurely depressed, and channelled, rather dull, 

 pretty closely and distinctly punctured. The elytra are 

 brownish, about one-third longer than the thorax, pretty 

 thickly and finely punctured, rendered dullish by a soft 

 pretty close pubescence. The abdomen is black and 

 shining, segments two to four rather finely and not 

 closely punctured, fifth segment sparingly punctured, 

 sixth impunctate. Legs yellow. 



In the male, the third joint of the antennae is much 

 stouter than in the female; the hind margin of the upper 

 plate of the seventh abdominal segment is truncate, and 

 finely crenulate, terminated on each side by a more dis- 

 tinct but small tubercle ; the ventral plate of the same 

 segment is distinctly produced, and much narrower at 

 the apex than in the female. In the female, the ventral 

 plate of the seventh segment is broad at the posterior 

 margin, and gently rounded. 



Abundant all over the country, especially in fungus in 

 the autumn. 



Obs. — There are, I think, still two species confounded 

 under this; the female, in one, has the hind margin of 

 the ventral plate of the seventh segment, distinctly, 

 even deeply, excised; while, in the other, it is rounded 

 as described above; the species with the excision seems 

 to be much rarer than the other, and as I am unable to 

 point out other satisfactory characters to distinguish it, 

 I content myself at present, with calling attention to 

 this anomaly. 



93. Homalota ignohilis. 



Sat convexa, nigra, elytris fuscis, pedibus piceis ; 

 thorace transverse ; abdomine segmentis 2-4 distincte 

 haud crebre punctatis, 5° parce punctate, 6° fere levi- 

 gate. Long. H li^- 



Ma^j abdomine segmento 7° dorsali apice truncate, 

 et obsolete crenulato ; ventrali apicem versus paulo an- 

 gustato, apice ipso rotundato. 



Fern.; abdomine segmento 7° ventrali margine poster- 

 iore dense evidenter ciliato, medio sat profunde excise. 



Allied to H.fungicola; compared with typical examples 

 of that species', a little larger, not so flat, with the front 



