468 Mr. Curtis's Descriptions of 



* 126. Nycterinus rugiceps, Curt. 



Obscure niger, capite punctulato ad basin granulato, tboraee lsevi, elytris 

 punctato-striatis 



Length 8 lines, breadth 3. 



Dull black, long and narrow: antennae and palpi rusty piceous ; labrum and clypeus finely 

 punctured : head oval, strongly punctured, the base or neck thickly granulated : thorax 

 convex, twice as broad, orbicular, a little broader before than at the base, the former 

 slightly concave, the latter truncated ; collar of elytra granulated ; scutel shining, very 

 broad and short, with a few punctures: elytra elongate-ovate, not much broade°r than 

 the thorax, with 9 strongly-punctured striae on each, somewhat in pairs, deepest at the 

 apex, and an abbreviated one next the scutel: underside thickly and minutely punc- 

 tured : legs stoutish, scabrose, pitchy-ferruginous. 

 Two specimens from Valparaiso. 



Taxicornes. 



Family DrAPERioi:. 



* 127. Oplocephala quadrituberculata, Curt. Neornida, Def. % Sturm s 



Catalogues. 



Piceo-nitida, trophis antennis pedibus subtusque ferrugineis, capite 4-tuber- 



culato. 

 Length 3| lines, breadth If. 



Elliptical, convex, piceous, very smooth and shining: antenna, snhferrnginous, basal joint 

 stout obovate, 2nd small, 3rd elongate-ovate, truncated, remainder incrassated and 

 perfoliate: tropin ochreous: head semicircular, punctured, the clypeus castaneous and 

 defined at the base by a semicircular impression. Male with 4 small tubercles in 

 fron and one on each side, on the inner margin of the eye : thorax slightly tnmsverse, 

 a httle narrowed before, and finely and indistinctly punctured, with a faint dorsal line; 

 antenor margm castaneous as well as the scutel occasionally: clyt ra scarcely broader 

 than the thorax and thrice as long, finely punctured, with 8 clearly-punctured hues 

 on each; apex w.th two foveas: underside castaneous, thicklv punctured: legs bright 

 ferruginous. 6 



A pair were taken at St. Paul's. 



This insect approaches the Oplocephala armata of M. de Laporte's Mono- 

 graph ; but the male has only 2 tnbercles on the crown of the head instead of 



