330 Mr. D. Sharp's Cuntribiitiuus to the 



and a little emarginatc, shining find impunctatc towards 

 the extremity. 



Ega, a single specimen ; also withont special locality 

 two other specimens, male and female, which 1 suspect 

 represent a closely allied species, but may perhaps l)e a 

 variety of this species ; they have the thorax more sparingly 

 punctured, and the male has the antenna with the joints 

 a little differently shaped, but this may possibly depend on 

 a slight shrivelling of these delicate structures. P. yal- 

 matus, Er., is evidently a closely allied species. 



17. Pinopliilus aberrnns, n. sp. Niger, nitidus, an- 

 tennis, palpis, pedibusque testaceis ; thorace elytrisque 

 crebre fortiter punctatis ; antennis articulo ultimo pra?- 

 cedenti longiore. Long. corp. 6 — 6| lin. 



]\Ias : antennarum articulo ultimo Aalde elongato ; 

 abdomine segmento 7° ventrali producto, apice angusto, 

 obsolete emarginato. 



Antennfe yellow, rather slender ; 3rd joint distinctly 

 longer tlian 2nd. Palpi pale yellow ; mandibles pitchy. 

 Head shining black, with two or three coarse piuictures im- 

 mediately behind the labrum, then a small impunctate 

 space, then across the middle a space with coarse pimc- 

 tures, behind this another impunctate space; the vertex on 

 each side punctured, the hind angles didl. Thorax about 

 as long as broad ; the sides nearly straight, and not nar- 

 rowed till near the hind angles, when they become much 

 narrowed, so that the base is a good deal narrower than the 

 front; transversely convex, rather coarsely and moderately 

 closely punctured, the punctures wanting on a small space 

 near the front angles, and at the hind angles, and some- 

 times more sparing along the middle. Elytra fully one- 

 third longer than thorax, rather coarsely but not closely 

 punctured. Hind body rather slender, sparingly punc- 

 tured. Legs pale yellow. 



In the male the terminal joint of the antennae is nearly 

 as long as the three preceding joints together ; the ventral 

 plate of the 7th segment is produced and naiTowed at the 

 extremity, where it is scarcely emarginato ; the apical 

 portion is smooth and impunctate. In the female the last 

 joint of the antonn.'o is only about one and a half times the 

 length of the lOlh joint. 



Ega ; one i , four ? indinduals. 



