BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 631 



extend to basal half; occasionally they are nob at all depressed; 

 the 3rd interstice and shoulder are sometimes granulate, some- 

 times a few reddish granules are placed near apex; several speci- 

 mens have the elytraj tinged with red; the small apical mucro 

 varies in length and thickness. Several females have a feeble 

 impression on the rostrum between bases of antennae. 



EuTHYRRHiNUS spiNiPENNis Waterh.; Mast. Cat., Sp.No.5513. 



Chcetectetorus spinipennis Waterh.; Euthyrrhinus navicularis 

 Pasc. 



(J. Elliptic, convex, angular. Black, subopaque; base of scape, 

 basal joints of funicle, and claw-joints dull red. Head with 

 brown and ochreous scales intermingled, on basal sides of rostrum 

 becoming almost white. Prothorax with black, blue-black, 

 brown, and ochreous scales intermingled; each side of apex with 

 a fascicle of black scales, these continued behind and gradually 

 widening to about the middle, also continued on the sides but to 

 a less distance, sometimes all continued to base and appearing as 

 four longitudinal stripes; Hanks with patches of ochreous inter- 

 mingled with black scales. Elytra with patches of dark ochreous 

 scales, intermingled with others of a blue-black colour, small 

 subfasciculate patches of black scales irregularly dispersed; each 

 elytron with two moderately distinct patches, one at about one- 

 fourth from base, and one about middle; each side of posterior 

 declivity with a distinct tuft of ochreous scales. Underaurface 

 with soft scales of greyish and blackish colours: longer on meta- 

 sternum, coxje, base of femora and mesosternal receptacle, than 

 elsewhere; ochreous scales on each side of pectoral canal, anterior 

 coxje, sides of sterna, and to a less extent on sides of abdomen, 

 walls of pectoral canal with sparse whitish scales; legs with 

 whitish scaleK. 



Head densely punctate, vertex convex. Rostrum long, flat- 

 tened, straight, widening to base and to a less extent to apex; 

 densely and moderately roughly punctate, punctures suboblong, 

 smaller near apex than near base; a feeble median carina or 

 impunctate line continued from base almost to extreme apex. 



