British Species of Homalota. 265 



B. orhata, Er. Kaf. Brand, i. 339; Gen. et Spec. 

 Staph. 132; Kr. Ins. Deutsch. ii. 322; Wat. Cat.; 

 Acrotona orhata, Th. Sk. Col. iii. 39. 



Closely allied to H. fungi, but with darker antennge, 

 rather longer thorax, which is also more delicately punc- 

 tured and pubescent, and with brownish elytra. The 

 antennae are blackish or pitchy, pretty distinctly pilose, 

 slightly thickened towards the apex ; joints two and 

 three of about equal length, four rather longer than 

 broad, five to seven about as long as broad, eight to ten 

 scarcely transverse; eleventh joint moderately stout, 

 about as long as the two preceding together. The head 

 is rather small, much narrower than the thorax, black 

 and shining, very finely and indistinctly punctured. The 

 thorax is black, the sides sometimes pitchy, as broad as 

 the elytra, about one-half or one-third broader than long, 

 the sides rounded, narrower at the anterior than at the 

 posterior angles, transversely convex, very finely and 

 not closely punctured. The abdomen is black and 

 shining, narrowed towards the apex, which is sometimes 

 paler; segments two to four distinctly and pretty closely 

 punctured, five a little more sparingly, six sparingly 

 punctured ; the outstanding setge of the sides and apex 

 are numerous and distinct. The legs are yellow, the 

 tibiae without exserted setae. 



The male is only to be distinguished by the ventral 

 plate of the seventh abdominal segment being narrower 

 and longer than in the female. 



Rare ; and in this country found only in sandy places 

 on the coast. Deal, Weymouth, Aberlady, Arbroath. 



153. Homalota fungi. 



Nigra, sat nitida, antennis pedibusque testaceis ; illis 

 sat tenuibus, subtiliter pilosellis, articulis hand trans- 

 versis ; capite thorace multo minore ; hoc transverse, con- 

 vexiusculo, asquali, vel obsolete canaliculate, elytrorum 

 fere longitudinis ; abdomine segmentis 2-4 crebre, 5° et 

 6° parcius punctatis. Long. \\ lin. 



Var. — H. duhia. Antennis apicem versus subincras- 

 satis, articulo penultimo fere transverse ; thorace breviore. 



Aleo char a fungi, Gvsbv. M-on. 157; H. fungi, Er. Gen. 

 et Spec. Staph. 131; Kr. Ins. Deutsch. ii. 321; Wat. 

 Cat. ; Acrotona fungi, Th. Sk. Col. iii. 38. 



