70 COLEOPTERA* 



notata, but not so well marked in colour, the parts usually 

 black being pitchy, and the elytra obscure yellow, with in- 

 distinct markings. Its chief point of separation, however, 

 seems to be in the antennas, which are rather more slender, 

 even less thickened towards the apex, and with the terminal 

 joint longer. The apex of the 7th dorsal plate in the male, 

 moreover, is truncate, but not crenulate. Apart from this 

 sexual character, its shorter and more transverse thorax, and 

 broader and less parallel form, will distinguish it from the 

 next species, to which it is allied. 



66. HoMALoTA XANTHOPUS, Thomsou, 1856; G. R. Crotch, 

 Cat. Brit. Col., Ed. 1 {xanthopa) ; D. Sharp, 1. c. 

 sublinearisj Kr. ; Wat. Cat. ; G. R. Crotch, Cat., 

 Ed. 2. 



67. HoMALOTA FUNGicoLA, Thomson ; Kraatz ; G. R. 

 Crotch, Cat. Col., Ed. 1 & 2; D. Sharp, 1. c, 

 199. 

 nigricornis, Wat. Cat. 



The prior Stephensian name is here again deposed. 



Dr. Sharp notes that, in his opinion, there are still two 

 species confounded under this name ; in one of which the 

 female has the hind margin of the ventral plate of the 7th 

 segment excised, whilst in the other it is rounded. 



68. HoMALOTA iGNOBiLis, Sharp, 1. c, 200 (described). 



Allied to H.fungicola^ but a little larger, not so flat, with 

 the front parts not so dull, the base of the antennae dark, the 

 head narrower, and the hind margin of the ventral plate 



