APPENDIX 



TO 



THE ZOOLOGIST 



FOR 1855. 



Art. XXX. — Descriptions of Two Coleopterous Insects new to the British 

 Fauna. By T. Vernon Wollaston, Esq., M.A., F.L.S. 



The following two insects appearing to be hitherto undescribed, not merely 

 in our own country but on the Continent at large, I subjoin the accompanying 

 brief diagnoses, which may serve to characterize them. 



Family — Staphylinid^e . 



Genus — Homalota. 



Homalota camerica. 



Angusto-linearis, depressa, fusco-picea, subnitida, pubescens ; elytris paidlo dilu- 

 tioribus ; pedibus pallido-testaceis ; antennis gracillimis, fuscis. (Long, 

 corp. lin. \\.) 



Narrow, linear and depressed ; of a brownish piceous hue, slightly shining, 

 and pubescent. Head roundish quadrate and very slightly narrower than the 

 prothorax, finely and rather sparingly punctured, flattened on the forehead, and 

 with an almost obsolete longitudinal foveolet, which vanishes posteriorly. Pro- 

 thorax a little narrower than the elytra, and rather more evidently punctured 

 than the head ; subquadrate, and very slightly narrowed behind ; obsoletely 

 channeled down the disk. Elytra somewhat more diluted in colouring than the 

 head and prothorax, and a little more pubescent. Abdomen linear, rather 

 shining, sparingly punctured, and diluted at its extreme apex. Antenna? rather 

 longer than the head and prothorax, fuscous, and extremely slender ; their ter- 

 minal joint ovate. Legs likewise slender, pale testaceous. 



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