62 COLEOPTERA. 



41. HoMALOTA Halobrectha, D. Sharp, 1. c, 139. 



Dr. Sharp adopts for the species known to us as H, ma- 

 ritima the name proposed by Thomson for the genus founded 

 by him to include that insect and the alUed puncticeps; 

 and which genus, with many other similar divisions of 

 Homalota by the same author, Dr. Sharp refuses to adopt. 

 Confusion of name seems to have followed this insect from 

 its original description to the present time. Scriba states it 

 is atricilla, Er. (immature), on the authority of the type in 

 the Turin Museum, as alluded to in a former ^'Annual ;" but 

 Dr. Sharp considers the description of that insect inapplic- 

 able, and will not adopt the name. Hardy and Bold con- 

 fused both it and punctice2)s under their H. algcB. Thomson 

 discriminated between the two, but called this owe flavipes, a 

 name long before occupied in the genus. Mr. Waterhouse 

 re-named it maritima, which appellation appears also to be 

 pre-occupied ! 



42. Homalota princeps, Sharp, 1. c, 142 (described). 

 Described from four specimens, taken in the Isle of Wight. 

 These are larger than the largest H. Halobrectha or pu?ic- 

 ticepsj and are intermediate in colour between the two ; from 

 the latter they are distinguished by their coarser punctuation, 

 and from the former by their longer elytra. The penulti- 

 mate joints of their antennae appear to be not so broad in 

 proportion to their length as in the other two species. 



43. Homalota fungivora, Thorns., Sk. CoL, ix, 260; 



D. Sharp, 1. c, 144. 



Extremely closely allied to H. occulta; and, perhaps, as 



Dr. Sharp observes, not really distinct from it. Dr. Sharp 



has only seen a male and female of true occulta (the male is 



