Capt. P. P. King's South American Coleoptera, 171 



*133. Adelphus geometricus, Perty in Spix 6} Martins, Delect, pi. 12. I. 16 



From St. Paul's. 



134. Prostenus? HIR8UTU8, Curt. 



Nitide aeneus vel cupreus, pilis longtfl vestitos, punctuUtos, Ultetmia ntgrit, 



elytris subcastaneis pnnctato-striatis, femoribtn basi rufis. 

 Length i\ lines, breadth 1}. 



Shining, with long upright hairs: trophi and antenna? black, the latter a little inrrassated, 

 apical joint rather the longest : head and thorax cupreous, strongly punctate, the forma 

 substriated at the base, the latter orbicular; posterior angles acute, with I smooth one 

 down the back: elytra brown, with a slight aeneous tint, each with s distinct ly-puuctun d 

 striae, producing series of long, whitish, upright hairs, and intennedi 

 tures, producing similar but shorter hairs: underside faintly punctured, with whitish 

 depressed hairs: legs the colour of the elytra, but the coxa 1 and bate of the thigfal 

 bright ferruginous. 



A single specimen from St. Catherine's: it is readily recognised by its hairy elytra. 



Family Mordellid;e. 



135. Mordella Tachyporiformis, Curt. 



Nigra, minute et crebre punctulata, supra pube brevi brunnea vestita. 



Length 3 lines, breadth above 1. 



Broad before and very tapering: black, shining, very thickly and minutely punctured all 

 over, and clothed above with a short brown pubescence: 6 terminal joint una 



incrassated ; head large, with a delicate channel down the centre : thorax breeder, 

 transverse, convex, angles all rounded, with a broad obtuse lobe over the scutcl. which 

 is trigonate-ovate: elytra transverse, not so long as the thorax but as wide, the til 

 margin excised and forming a very acute trigonate external angle: wings fuscous, not 

 so long as the body, which tapers and terminates in a straight stout aculeus; the 

 nultimate segment and sides of the 2 preceding sericeous and dirty whitish. 



A specimen from St. Paul's. 



136. Mordella argentipi\\ctat.\, Curt 

 Sericeo-nigra, thoracis margine antico elytrorum basali macutifl 4 aculeisque 



basalibus argenteo-albis. 

 Length nearly 2 lines, breadth |. 



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