TACHYPOBID.E. — ALEOCHARA. 149 



antennse nearly as long as the thorax, rather stout, pitchy-black, with the 



base slender and rufous, the terminal joint longer, ovate-acute : palpi 



rufous. 



Taken near " Ipswich by the Rev. R. Sheppard."— ^ir&2/ MSS. 



Sp.l26. erosa. Nigra, obscuriuscuJa, subsericea, corpore dilatato, pedibus fuscis, 

 tarsis pallidis. (Long. corp. IJ — 1§ lin.) 



Al. erosa. Kirby MSS.—Steph. Catal.266. No. 2721. 



Black, or fuscous-black, depressed, broad, with a delicate, decumbent, slightly 

 sericeous, obscure pile, smooth : head inflexed, narrower than the thorax, 

 orbiculate: thorax very wide, subtruncate, with a fovea in the middle 

 behind : elytra nearly as wide as, but longer than, the thorax, with the 

 apex of the hinder margin obliquely notched towards the exterior angle : 

 abdomen twice the length of the elytra, depressed-conic, strongly margined, 

 with the penultimate segment whitish at the apex, the latter terminating in 

 two processes : legs fuscous, with pale tarsi : antennae piceous. 



I possess one specimen captured by myself near London ; and a 

 second taken in Norfolk. 



-f-Sp. 127. melanocephala. Fusco-picea, obscura, capite nigricante, antennis 



pedihus anoque dilutioribus. (Long. corp. 1§ lin.) 

 Al. melanocephala. Kirbi/ MSS. — Steph. Catal. 266. No. 2T22. 



Piceous, clothed with a very short, obscure pile : head narrower than the 

 thorax, suborbiculate, nearly black : thorax transverse, broad, subquadrate, 

 with the angles rather acute, very delicately punctulated, the posterior 

 margin rounded, anteriorly somewhat circular, posteriorly with an obsolete 

 transverse line : elytra transverse, nearly as wide and as long as the thorax, 

 somewhat irregularly and minutely punctulated, rufo-piceous, with a notch 

 behind towards the hinder exterior angle : abdomen thrice as long as the 

 elytra, acute, iAmzng-, the base rufo-piceous, the apex Jlavescent : legs duL 

 ferruginous : antennae shorter than the thorax, rufo-piceous, with the base 

 and apex yellowish, rather thickened exteriorly, the apical joint oblong- 

 obtuse. 



"■ Taken in the spring, on fir wood, by Mr. Sheppard." — 

 Kirhy MSS. 



Sp. 128. brevicornis. Nigra, elytris anoque picescentibus , pedihus pallidis, 



antennis thorace hrevioribus. (Long. corp. 1 J lin.) 

 Al. brevicornis. Kirhy MSS.—Steph. Catal. 266. No. 2723. 



Black, somewhat obscure: head triangular-orbiculate, very minutely punc- 

 tured: thorax transverse, somewhat quadrangular, very minutely and 

 thickly punctured : elytra longer, Ijut scarcely wider than the thorax, 

 fuscous, thickly punctulated : abdomen thrice as long as the elytra, subconic. 



