BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 



505 



continuous from base to apex; apex rounded, not much narrower 

 than base. Scutellum absent. Elytra ovate, base depressed, 

 .shoulders obsolete, small tubercles on ■2nd, 5th and 7th interstices; 

 the 2nd about the middle of posterior declivity with large conical 

 tubercle conjoined at base ; apex rounded. Femora scarcely 

 reaching base of posterior tubercles; 3rd tarsal joint moderately 

 bilobed. 



P. FASCICULATUS, n.sp. — I think this species should be 

 referred to Foropterus though at first sight it has more the 

 appearance of a Tragopus. Tt may be easily identified on account 

 of its smooth almost impunctate surface; elytra with four distinct 

 and several smaller fascicles of blackish elongate scales or setaj; 

 claw-joint densely covered with minute scales, &c. 



PoROPTERUS MORBiLLOSUS, Pasc. ; Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 5432. 



Very densely clothed all over with roundish or moderately 

 elongate light bro^v?l scales, densest on head and prothorax, where 

 also (except in middle of latter) they are paler; punctures with a 

 larger and paler scale; under surface with denser, paler and not 

 much more elongate scales than pr6thorax; tibiae with darker and 

 elongate scales; rostrum — except basal third — almost bare. 

 Ciliation almost microscopic, silvery. 



ConA^ex, subcylindric, tubercles small and irregular. Head 

 slightly convex ; ocular fovea invisible; eyes coarsely granulate, 

 produced in front ; rostrum long, almost straight and parallel, 

 densely punctate, with traces of feeble carina? between scapes; 

 antenni^ long; scape inserted at about one-third from apex, pass- 

 ing muzzle for a considerable distance; 2nd joint of funicle almost 

 twice the length of first, and as long as three following combined, 

 7th feebly transverse; club free, elongate. Prothorax longer and 

 deeper than wide; apex produced, rounded; extreme apex about 

 one-fourth the width of base, obliquely widening to basal two- 

 thirds, which are parallel; ocular lobes feeble; constriction feeble, 

 continued as a shallow depression across summit; without visible 

 median carina but a median line continuous to base and apex, 

 with traces of transverse rows of obtuse tubercles, apex with a 

 ridge on each side. Elyira parallel to near apex, slightly wider 



