NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE, 



Vol. I. SEPTEMBER, 1894. No. 4. 



ON ANTHBIBIDAE IN THE MUSEUM OF THE HONOUE- 

 ABLE WALTER EOTHSCHILU. 



By DK. K. JORBAN. 



I. 



IF()LL(_)\V ill tlii.s paper Lacordaire's classitication of Antliribulne, tliougli in 

 future considerable alterations in the position of man}' genera will have to be 

 made. A relatively enormous number of uncharaoterised species and genera of this 

 family existing in collections, an attempt of a new classification must be a failure 

 at present. Some of the hitherto unknown species contained in the Tring Museum 

 are described in this paper, mostly Indo-Australian and African forms. Fortunately 

 enough, the Natural History Museum at .South Kensington is in possession of the 

 Pascoe Collection, so that I was able to compare our specimens with Pascoe's types. 

 To the descriptions of new genera and species some synonymical notes are added. 



1. Phloeopemon depressum sp. nov. 



? . P. nigrum, dense albo-cinereo-tomentosum ; supra parum lutescens, 

 lateribus (margine extremo elytrorum albo-cinereo) subnigrum, albo-cinereo- 

 guttulatum. 



Rostrum medio longitrorsum fortiter impressum, hac impressione in apice 

 triangulariter dilatata, carinam in apice distinctam, in medio ob.soletam, in frontem 

 capitis continuatam ubi sat altam, includente ; carinis dorso-lateralibus intra antennas 

 flexuosis approximates, versus frontem obsoletis ; sulcis anteocularibus multo minus 

 quam in Phi. acuticomi impressis; cum capita rugulosum. Antennae cinereo-albo- 

 pubescentes, clava nigra caeteris articulis vix crassiore. 



Prothorax latitudine paulo longior, retrorsum leviter ampliato-rotundatus, 

 maxima latitudine ante basim, fortiter transverse rugatus, dorso antice et postice 

 modice impressus ; impressione antica transversa, postica majore ; linea mediana in 

 medio parum profundata densius pubescente ; carina praebasali in medio interrupta 

 gradatim antrorsum curvata, lateris medium non attingente. Elytra elongata, ad 

 suturam longitrorsum sat fortiter impressa, granoso-punctato-striata, interstitiis 

 primo, tertio, quinto subalbis nigro-maculatis, maculis duabus elongatis postmedianis 

 et duabus minoribus anleapicalibus in interstitiis tertio et quinto sit is con- 

 spicuoribus. 



Pvgidiuui ai>iee impressiun. subtruncalum. aiigulis levissime roflexis. 



Prosternum rugato-puuctatum ; metasternum et abdomen lateribus fortiter sed 



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