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KEY TO SPEC FES OF IIOMALOTA. 



a. Abdomen obviously narrowed towards the top. Same 

 appearance as tbe acuminate Oxj/poda ; elytra almost 

 entire, anus and feet a testaceous red, sordida. 



h. 1 — Abdomen parallel. Corselet strongly transverse ; 

 bead sunk into it ; the fourtb joint of antennae 

 transverse ; body broad, short, not bronzy, coriaria. 

 2 — Abdomen parallel. Corselet not at all or very little 

 transverse ; bead sunk into it. The fourth joint of 

 antennae a little transverse ; head, corselet, and 

 elytra more or less brilliant, not shagreen ; size 

 medium or rather small. Corselet almost glossy or 

 obsoletely dotted. politula. 



H. sordida, Marsh, Ent. Brit., 514; Fau vol, II., p. 112. 



Same appearance and colour as Ox\]j)oda llvidipennis ; mucli 

 •smaller, fusiform, rather convex, black, rather opaque ; mouth, 

 antennae, margin of the segments, anus and feet red ; the tarsi 

 •and elytra testaceous, the latter dusky about scutellum ; with 

 very dense brown pubescence ; the anterior parts of the body 

 Tery frequently punctate very densely, the abdomen less 

 opaque, thickly, finely, and equally punctated ; antennae very 

 stout, elongated, the fourth joint slightly transverse, fifth to 

 tenth subquadrate, the eleventh longer than the two preceding 

 ones ; the thorax convex, obsoletely furrowed, somewhat trans- 

 verse, anteriorly pretty narrow, the posterior extremities very 

 obtuse, the base a little curving, elytra a little broader and 

 longer ; in male the seventh segment subemarginate at the top, 

 underneath conical, very much elongated ; female underneath 

 slightly elongated, deeply emarginate. 



Length. — 3-3i mill. 



Localities — Japan, Persia, Europe, America, Adelaide. 



Ohs. — This species appears to be cosmopolitan. 



H. coriaria, Kraatz., Xat., 282 ; Fauvel, Fn. Gall., Khun., III., 71o, 

 pi. VIL, fig. 11, et loc. cit., L, p. 115. 



In shape broad, short, convex as in IL. succicola and trmotata ; 

 the body, and especially the head and thorax, nitid ; these 

 latter being very densely punctate obsoletely, the elytra often 

 very finely, the second to fifth abdominal segments finely but; 

 sparsely punctate, the sixth nearly smooth ; Ijlack ; base of an- 

 tennae, elytra, and feet dirty testaceous ; the former dark brou ii 

 on the upper extremities ; the antennae stout, short, fourth and 

 fifth joints, and especially sixth to tenth strongly transverse ; 

 head and thorax broad, the latter very short, in the male 

 widely hollowed, in the female foveolate and slightly grooved, 

 the sides anteriorly rather narrow ; posterior extremities 



