318 ^Ir. 1). Sharp's Coutrihiitiuns to the 



18. TcBiiodcmn lurida, n. sp. Nigra, supra opaca, 

 flense punctata, cinereo-pubescens, antcnnarum l)a?i pal- 

 pisque rulis ; ])edibus piceis, auterioribus ruf'escentibus. 

 JLong. Corp. 4 lin. 



Antenna3 thickened towards tlie cxti'emity ; the two 

 basal joints yellow ; the 3rd pitchy, the following ones 

 nearly black, 10th strongly transverse. Palpi yellow, the 

 basal portion of the last joint infuscate ; mandibles red. 

 Head very densely and coarsely punctured, bearing a pale 

 pubescence ; a narrow transverse space in front of the 

 vertex, smooth and shining. Thorax ti-ansversely convex, 

 about as lonfj as broad, slio-htlv rounded at the sides and 

 slightly narrowed behind, coarsely and very densely punc- 

 tured. ]<21yti'a slightly longer than the thorax, densely 

 punctured ; the suture and the basal portion bearing a pale 

 pubescence, as also the inllexed side, but the larger portion 

 of the hind ])art of each elytron with a fine dark pubescence. 

 Hind body black, with the extremity pitchy red; the seg- 

 ments coarsely and closely punctured, the hind margins 

 smooth and shining in the middle ; the 6th and 7th seg- 

 ments more finely punctured than the basal ones ; the 

 basal segments are clothed with some fine white hairs, and 

 these become more dense and distinct on the 6th and 7th 

 segments, but the hind margin of this latter is cpiite 

 smooth and shining. Anterior legs reddish, middle ones 

 pitch}- red, with the tibia) darker ; hind ones nearly black, 

 with the trochanters red ; under surface shining, hind body 

 coarsely and evenly not densely })uncturcd. 



St. Paulo ; a single individual, which I believe to be a 

 female ; the ventral plate of the 7th segment of the hind 

 body is slightly elongate. 



This species is closely allied to T. tecta; it is a little 

 more slender and less depressed, the antenna^ are slightly 

 longer, the \)ix\v pubescence of the u])i)er surlhce is less 

 conspicuous, and is absent from a larger portion of the 

 elytra. 



PiNOPlIILUS. 



This genus, as at present understood, consists of about 

 fifty species, inhabiting the warmer ])arts of the Old and 

 New Worlds in about equal pro])ortions: it is probable, 

 however, that the S])ecies are really more niunerous in the 

 New World than in the Old; for while in Europe the 

 genus is only represented by an eastern species that has 



