NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1869. 67 



founded with H, analisy from which it may be known by 

 its rather longer elytra and more densely punctured and less 

 shining abdomen, and by the absence of the notch in the 7t]i 

 abdominal segment always found in that insect. From JS". 

 soror its rather smaller size, more finely punctured abdomen, 

 un-notched 7th segment, and brighter legs, antennae and 

 apex will serve to distinguish it. 



57. HoMALOTA vALiDiuscuLA, Kr., Ins. Deutschl., ii, 261 ; 

 D. Sharp, 1. c, 182. 



Found in numbers in a ditch, among dead leaves, early in 

 spring, on the Braid Hills, Edinburgh. 



Allied to H. exilis, from which it differs in its less parallel 

 form, differently shaped head, and more distinct punctuation 

 and pubescence. Also close to H. palleola, but a trifle 

 larger, not so depressed or parallel, with darker abdomen, 

 rounder and narrower head, and more distinctly punctured 

 and pubescent anterior parts. 



58. HoMALOTA EXARATA, Sharp, 1. c, 186 (described). 



A few specimens found by Dr. Power and Mr. Brewer, in 

 Tilgate Forest, in nests of Formica fuliginosa, are all that 

 have come under the describer's notice. 



It is allied to S. hepaticttf but is smaller, narrower, and 

 lighter than that species, with more slender antennae and 

 shorter thorax. 



Dr. Sharp remarks that all the specimens of S. hepatica 

 that he has seen are females. I have a finely developed 

 male in my collection, from the London district; there is 

 one other (at least) in Mr. Waterhouse's collection ; and Mr. 

 E. A. Waterhouse has taken the male (more than once, if 

 I mistake not) in the court-yard of the British Museum. 



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