BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 601 



A small dingy species entirely without tuberosities and with a 

 much smaller claw-joint than usual; at first sight it might readily 

 be mistaken for a species of Syarhis. From the description of 

 O. arctatus it differs in the colour of its scales and in the inter- 

 stices. From the description of G. tnrhidus in the head not 

 profoundly excavated between eyes, length of rostrum, (fee. 



OXYOPS MULTIDENTATA, n.Sp. 



Entirely dull red. Upper surface with straw-coloured scales, 

 sparse on head except about eyesj on prothorax only noticeable 

 under a lens; scutellum densely covered; moderately dense on 

 elytra but having three almost bare patches, a transverse one 

 near base widening to suture, a subbilunulate one about middle, 

 and an irregular patch on posterior declivity. Under surface 

 densely clotlied with rather elongate spatulate scales, paler on 

 abdomen than on sterna; gullet with elliptic closely adpressed 

 scales. 



Head noticeably punctate, a deep elongate impression between 

 eyes; eye large, prominent, almost round. Rostrum short, thick, at 

 apex fully as wide as base of head; densely punctate, carinate 

 from ocular impression to insertion of antennae. First joint of 

 funicle about half the length of 2nd, obtriangular, 1st and 2nd 

 combined longer than scape ; club paler than apical joints of 

 funicle. Prothorax densely and coarsely punctate, a feeble 

 median carina on basal two-thirds, apex constricted. Scutel'um 

 suboblong, punctate, not at all raised. Elytra gradually decreas- 

 ing in width to apex; striate-punctate, punctures large, oblong, 

 decreasing towards apex and sides, ten rows in all; interstices 

 convex, granulate; near suture narrower, near sides wider than 

 punctures, 3rd raised throughout, but more noticeably at base;, 

 shoulders oblique, scarcely outwardly prominent. Under surface 

 densely punctate. Abdomen flattened at base; intermediate seg- 

 ments bare in the middle, with the sutures there suddenly 

 enlarged. Metasternum with a distinctly triangular and granulate 

 coxal process. Mesosternal process rather short, triangular and 

 distinctly pointed. Femora feebly notched near apex ; four 



