NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1869. 79 



for some time endeavoured to persuade myself it was a 

 species intermediate between the two; and, therefore, the 

 more readily incline to think Dr. Sharp not far from the 

 truth in suggesting that clientula may probably itself be only 

 a variety or depauperized form olfangi, 



100. HoMALOTA orphana; Er., Col. March., 1, 340; id., 



Gen. et Spec. Staph., 133; Kr.; Thomson (J.cro- 



tona); D. Sharp, 1. c, 267. 



Allied to H.fungij but much smaller and proportionately 



broader and shorter ; with the apex of the antennse pitchy 



and the second joint almost longer than the third, duller 



elytra, and the sides of the abdomen more sparingly pilose. 



Single specimens have occurred at Hammersmith marshes, 

 and elsewhere near London. 



101. HoMALOTA CRiBRATA, Kr., lus. Dcutschl., ii, 288; 



D. Sharp, 1. c, 268. 

 This small species, distinguished by its short broad form, 

 and comparatively strong punctuation, and by being nar- 

 rowed both before and behind, seems as rare here as abroad ; 

 Dr. Sharp has taken one specimen near Croydon, and there 

 is another in Mr. G. R. Waterhouse's collection. Dr. Sharp 

 rightly states this insect is difficult to locate; it seems to me 

 closely allied to H. ohlita, 



102. Myll^na glauca, Aube, Ann. dela Soc. Ent. de Fr., 



1850, 342; Kraatz, Ins. Deutschl., iii, 1057; Fauvel, 

 L'Abeille, vi, p. 152; E. C. Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vi, 159. 



elongatttj Kr. (1853), nee Matthews, ( 1838). 

 Some time ago, I took in Sphagnum^ on Wimbledon Com- 



