British Species of Homalota. 205 



mine segmentis 2-4 subtiliter haud crebre punctatis, 

 5 et 6 fere leevigatis. Long. 1^ lin. 



Mas ; thorace disco impresso ; abdomine segmento 7° 

 dorsali margine apicali utrinque denticulo prominulo 

 terminato, et medio leviter emarginato. 



H. coriaria, Kr. Ins. Deutsch. ii. 282 ; Wat. Cat. 



Not very closely allied to any other species; rather 

 broad and convex. The antennse are moderately stout, 

 rather short, a little thickened towards the apex, blackish, 

 with the two or three basal joints paler; joints two and 

 three rather short, of about equal length, four small, 

 about as broad as three, not quite so long as broad, five 

 broader than four, from this to the tenth transverse, but 

 not strongly so ; eleventh joint moderately stout, about 

 as long as the two preceding together. The head is 

 rather broad, but considerably narrower than the thorax 

 and elytra, black and shining, finely and indistinctly 

 punctured, rounded behind the eyes. Thorax strongly 

 transverse, its breadth twice its length, a little narrower 

 than the elytra, the sides gently rounded, rather narrower 

 at the anterior than at the posterior angles, extremely 

 finely punctured and pubescent; in the female with a 

 small fovea in front of the scutellum, in the male with a 

 more or less distinct large impression on the middle. 

 The elytra are about a third longer than the thorax, of 

 an obscure brownish colour, finely and closely punctured. 

 The abdomen is black and shining, segments two to four 

 rather sparingly punctured, fifth segment very sparingly 

 and finely punctured, sixth almost impunctate. Legs 

 pitchy-yellow. 



In the male, the thorax is impressed on the disc ; and 

 the seventh segment of the abdomen has a small notch 

 in the middle of the hind margin, and the lateral margin 

 on each side is produced into a small sharp tooth, be- 

 tween which and the central notch can generally be seen 

 one or more indistinct smaller teeth, which, however, 

 are sometimes quite absent. 



Not common. In Cut grass, &c. Thornhill, and near 

 London, 



98. Homalota sodalis. 



Convexa, nigra, nitidula, elytris nigro-brunneis, an- 

 tennis piceis, basi pedibusque rufo-testaceis ; thorace 



q2 



