British Species of Homalota. 269 



of H. inconspicua are two of this species ; the punctua- 

 tion of the head certainly resembles that of H. inconspicua, 

 but the sculpture of the elytra is very diflFerent. The 

 position of the species in the genus is not very easy 

 to determine. 



157. Homalota notha. 



Brevissima, fusca, antennarum basi pedibusque rufis^ 

 distincte pubescens ; thorace brevi^ elytris hujus longi- 

 tudinis ; abdomine lateribus fere rotundatis^ supra parce 

 et obsolete punctato. Long. 1 lin. 



Mas; elytris angulo suturali tuberculo elevate in- 

 structo ; abdomine segmento 7° dorsali apice medio 

 anguste emarginato. 



R. notha, Er. Gen. et Spec. Staph. 126; Kr. Ins. 

 Deutsch. ii. 323. 



The most discordant species of the genus ; very broad 

 and short,, and having the appearance of a Gyrophcena 

 as much as of a Homalota. The antennae are moderately 

 long, distinctly pilose, thickened towards the apex, the 

 basal joints reddish, the apical ones infuscate; joint 

 three finer and a little shorter than two, four also 

 slender, longer than broad, five about as long as broad, 

 the following ones transverse, the tenth distinctly trans- 

 verse; eleventh joint shorty stout and pointed, about 

 twice as long as the tenth. The head is broad, but much 

 narrower than the thorax, black and shining, indistinctly 

 but not altogether finely punctured. The thorax is 

 nearly as broad as the elytra, very short, more than 

 twice as broad as long, transversely convex, narrower at 

 the anterior than at the posterior angles, finely and in- 

 distinctly punctured, with rather long, distinct, some- 

 what scanty pubescence. The elytra are about as long 

 as the thorax, pretty closely and distinctly punctured, 

 pubescence distinct and rather long, the sides with a 

 few distinct outstanding sette. The abdomen is flat 

 above, dilated and convex beneath, the sides rounded 

 and furnished with outstanding setae, the margins of the 

 segments finely and indistinctly punctured and pubes- 

 cent. The legs are reddish-yellow, the tarsi rather 

 stout. 



