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and noticeably punctate only at base, without median carina; the 

 antennae are longer and thinner and are inserted about one-third 

 from apex ; the basal segment of abdomen is without discal 

 impression and the anterior femora are edentate, the teeth of the 

 four posterior very small. A male recently captured at Donny- 

 brook has the elytra of a dark piceous-brown colour. 



This species agrees with Pascoe's diagnosis of Tetitheria, but is 

 certainly not his T. insciilpta. I do not think the claws soldered 

 at the base should be considered generically important, in this 

 part of the subfamily at least, and I can find nothing else in 

 Pascoe's diagnosis to warrant the separation of T. insculpta from 

 Melanterius. In the species described above the femoral teeth 

 are invisible when viewed from above, and in the supposed 

 female are traceable with extreme difficulty only, 



Melanterius tristis, n.sp. 



9 (?). Elliptic-ovate, shining, moderately convex. Dark casta- 

 neous ] antennae dull red. Prothoracic punctures with minute 

 hairs, becoming very indistinct on elytra; under surface and legs 

 with moderately distinct, short whitish hairs. 



Head densely and somewhat obsoletely punctate; eyes subreni- 

 form, coarsely faceted, separated for the width of rostrum between 

 antennae; a transverse depression between eyes with very feeble 

 ocular fovea. Rostrum long, thin, curved, feebly increasing to 

 base; base densely punctate and obsoletely grooved, elsewhere 

 feebly punctate. Antennae inserted about two-fifths from apex of 

 rostrum; scape passing apex; basal joint of funicle about one- 

 third the length of scape and as long as 2nd-3rd combined, 3rd- 

 5th globular, 6th-7th transverse; club briefly ovate. Prothorax 

 feebly transverse, sides oblique; emargination feeble; ocular lobes 

 almost absent; densely punctate, punctures round, nowhere con- 

 fluent; without median line. >S'c?<ieZ/«/« oblong, punctate. Elytra 

 cordate, distinctly wider than prothorax and not thrice its length; 

 shoulders rounded, feebly impinging on prothorax, each with ten 

 rows of elliptic punctures set in grooves ; interstices flattened, 

 wider than rows of punctures near base, near apex raised, narrow 



