244 Dr. Sharp's Revision of the 



again as its length, the sides gently rounded, slightly nar- 

 rowed in front, rather finely and not closely punctured, 

 the pubescence rather long, the sides with a few distinct 

 long outstanding hairs. The elytra are brownish-yellow, 

 darker about the scutellum and towards the sides, closely 

 and rather strongly punctured, a little longer than the 

 thorax. The abdomen is black, strongly narrowed to- 

 wards the apex,which is pitchy, densely and evenly punc- 

 tured, the sides and apex with distinct outstanding hairs. 

 The legs are dark yellow, with the femora infuscate, the 

 middle and posterior tibise each with two long exserted 

 hairs, one a little below the knee, the other a little be- 

 yond the middle, they are also pretty closely furnished 

 with short cilia both on the inner and outer sides. 



In the male, the apex of the dorsal plate of the seventh 

 abdominal segment is indistinctly emarginate, the ventral 

 plate rounded. 



In the female, the ventral plate has the hind margin 

 furnished with short parallel cilia, and is distinctly emar- 

 ginate in the middle. 



Extremely abundant in dung, all over the country. 



135. Homalota macrocera. 



Nigra, sat nitida, crebre subtiliter punctata, elytris 

 fuscis, pedibus piceo-testaceis ; antennis longioribus, arti- 

 culo ultimo oblongo, elongate ; thorace leviter transverse, 

 obsolete canaliculate ; abdomine apicem versus angustato, 

 supra segmentis 2-4 crebre subtiliter punctatis, 5° minus 

 crebre, 6° parce punctate. Long. 1 lin. 



H. macrocera, Th. Ofv. Vet. Ac. Forh. 1856, p. 106; 

 Atheta macrocera, Th. Sk. Col, iii. 96. 



A rather narrow species, with evidently pointed abdo- 

 men. Antennae rather long, not (or scarcely) thickened 

 towards the apex; joints two and three of about the same 

 length, four smaller than five, longer than broad, five to 

 nine differing but little from one another in length and 

 breadth, each distinctly longer than broad, ten about as 

 long as broad; eleventh joint elongate, oblong, quite as 

 long as the two preceding together. The head is a little 

 narrower than the thorax, pretty closely and finely but 

 distinctly and rather roughly punctured, sometimes with 

 an indistinct channel. The thorax is a little narrower 



