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with a thickened posterior margin, and the sides also 

 towards the apex elevated, the outer angles project a 

 little, so as to give the hind margin a slightly concave 

 appearance. 



In moss in wet places, generally distributed in England 

 and Scotland, but nowhere common. 



Ohs. — The comparatively elongate terminal joint of the 

 antennee in this species, is its most notable character. 



101. Homalota mgricornis. 



Subdepressa, crebre subtiliter punctata, subopaca, 

 nigra, antennis elytrisque nigro-fuscis, pedibus fusco- 

 testaceis ; thorace transverse ; abdomine supra segmentis 

 2-4 subtiliter sat crebre punctatis, 5° parce punctate, 

 6° fere Igevigato. Long. Ij lin. 



Mas ; capite prothoraceque disco impressis ; abdomine 

 segmento 7° dorsali apice late indistincte emarginato. 



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

 Kr. Ins. Deutsch. ii. 281 ; Atheta nigricorms, Th. Sk. Col. 

 iii. 86. 



Allied to H. divisa, but readily distinguished by its 

 darker elytra, and the shorter terminal joint of the an- 

 tennge. The antennae are moderately long, slightly thick- 

 ened towards the apex, pitchy-black, the basal joint pitchy ; 

 joints two and three moderately long, of about equal 

 length, four rather small, about as broad as three, and 

 about as long as broad, five rather stouter than four, 

 slightly transverse, six to ten transverse, the first of them 

 indistinctly, the last of them distinctly so; eleventh joint 

 nearly twice as long as the tenth. The head is black, 

 narrower than the thorax, finely and indistinctly punc- 

 tured; in the male the disc is more or less depressed. 

 The thorax is a little narrower than the elytra, about half 

 as broad again as long, the sides a little rounded in front, 

 then scarcely narrowed behind, finely and closely punc- 

 tured ; in the male the disc has a broad impression, and 

 in the female there is sometimes a short channel in front 

 of the scutellum. The elytra are fully a third longer than 

 the thorax, black or pitchy-black, finely and closely 

 punctured. The abdomen is black, segments two to four 

 finely and moderately densely punctured, fifth segment 

 very sparingly and finely punctured, sixth nearly im- 

 punctate. Legs pitchy-yellow, the femora being darker 

 than the tibiae. 



