Capt. P. P. King's South American Coleoptera. 471 



*133. Adelphus geometric us, Perty in Spix ^ Martins, Delect, pi. 12. f. 16. 

 From St. Paul's. 



134. Prostenus ? HiRsuTus, Curt. 



Nitide eeneus vel ciipreus, pilis longis vestitus, punctulatus, antennis nigris, 



elytris subcastaneis punctato-striatis, femoribiis basi rufis. 

 Length 2| lines, breadth 1|. 



Shining, with long upright hairs : trophi and antennae black, the latter a little incrassated, 

 apical joint rather the longest : head and thorax cupreous, strongly punctate, the former 

 substriated at the base, the latter orbicular ; posterior angles acute, with a smooth line 

 down the back : elytra brown, with a slight aeneous tint, each with 8 distinctly-punctured 

 striae, producing series of long, whitish, upright hairs, and intermediate lines of punc- 

 tures, producing similar but shorter hairs : underside faintly punctured, with whitish 

 depressed hairs : legs the colour of the elytra, but the coxae and base of the thighs are 

 bright ferruginous. 



A single specimen from St. Catherine's : it is readily recognised by its hairy elytra. 



Family Mordelud^. 



135. MORDELLA TaCHYPORIFORMIS, Curt. 



Nigra, minute et crebrfe punctulata, supr^ pube brevi brunne^ vestita. 

 Length 3 lines, breadth above 1. 



Broad before and very tapering : black, shining, very thickly and minutely punctured all 

 over, and clothed above with a short brown pubescence : 6 terminal joints of antenna; 

 incrassated ; head large, with a delicate channel down the centre : thorax broader, 

 transverse, convex, angles all rounded, with a broad obtuse lobe over the scutel, which 

 is trigonate-ovate : elytra transverse, not so long as the thorax but as wide, the hinder 

 margin excised and forming a very acute trigonate external angle : wings fuscous, not 

 so long as the body, which tapers and terminates in a straight stout aculeus ; the pe- 

 nultimate segment and sides of the 2 preceding sericeous and dirty whitish. 



A specimen from St. Paul's. 



. 136. MoRUELLA ARGENTIPUNCTATA, Curt. 



Sericeo-nigra, thoracis inargine antico elytronim basali maculis 4 aculeisque 



basalibus argenteo-albis. 

 Length nearly 2 lines, breadth |. 



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