.'524 ^Ir. D. Sharp's Contributions to the 



Antennae red, scarcely so long as head and thorax, 

 rather stout, not thinner at the extremity ; 3rd joint a 

 little longer than 2nd. Head small, shining, dark reddish, 

 with a very few pimctures. Thorax longer than broad, 

 about as broad as the elytra, qiiite straight at the sides, 

 shining red, with a few fine punctures, viz., four distant 

 ones in a row on each side of the middle, and five or six 

 on each side near the margin. Elytra a little longer than 

 the thorax, iui'uscate, rather finely and sparingly punctured, 

 but slightly shining. Hind body dull, infuscate, reddish 

 at the extremity, the punctuation indistinct, moderately 

 close. Legs yellowish-red ; extremity of hind body simply 

 rounded. 



The male has only a very shallow notch at the extre- 

 mity of the ventral plate of the 7 th segment of the hind 

 body. 



8. Pinopliilus distnns, n. sp. Xlger, fere opacus, an- 

 tennis, palpis, pedibusque testaceis, abdomine apice rufo ; 

 vertice dense punctate ; thoracc oblongo, elytrisque dense 

 minus fortiter punctatis. Long. corp. 63 lin. 



Mas : abdomine segmento 7° ventrali fere simplice, apice 

 obsolete emarginato. 



Antenna3 yellow, slender, moderately long; 3rd joint 

 a little longer than 2nd. Palpi pale yellow ; mandil)les 

 pitchy. Head with the vertex densel}- punctured ; in front 

 of this with a transverse, quite sliining space, the anterior 

 part Avith coarse punctures on each side, and two mode- 

 ratclv large punctures on the front edge of the clypeus in 

 the middle. Thorax one-fourth longer than broad, (piite 

 straight at the sides, densely, moderately coarsely and 

 evenly piuictured, the })unctures covering the whole sur- 

 face and leaving no smootli spaces. Elytra scarcely longer 

 than the thorax; their punctuation very similar to that of 

 the thorax, their hind margin obscurely red. Hind body 

 modei'ately coai'sely and not closely punctured, the extre- 

 mity broadl}' red. The legs are pale yelloAV ; the anterior 

 tarsi extremely broad. 



The male has the ventral ]jlate of the 7th segment 

 almost simple ; it is not produced, and only very obsoletely 

 eniarginate at the extremity; the ventral ])late of the 8th 

 segment is visible and rather broad, and remains part of 

 the sheath, it not being modified to form part of tlie intro- 

 mittent organ ; the form of the latter is very peculiar. 



Amazons; a single male individual, without more special 



