78 SUBFAMILIES CtPHALElNJE AND CNODALONIN^E. 



any sexual character. It differs from all described species in its 

 small size, and comparatively coarser sculpture, which combined 

 with its red legs and nitid colour, will enable it to be readily 

 identified. In one specimen, the colour is greenish, with its 

 punctures cuprescent and fiery. Type in the author's Coll. 



Platyphanes parallelus, n.sp. 



Oblong, nitid black; antennae, oral organs, coxae and tarsi red; 

 apex and underside of tibiae, parts of sternum piceous. 



Head and prothorax finely and very closely punctate, with 

 labrum piceous and emarginate, epistoma evenly and widely 

 rounded, suture clearly denned, canthus little raised, eyes partly 

 concealed by prothorax and separated by a distance about half 

 the transverse diameter of one eye: antennae not reaching the 

 base of prothorax, joint 3 longer than 4, 8-11 considerably 

 widened and nearly round, 11 scarcely longer than 10. Pro- 

 thorax(S x 4 \ mm.) more convex than in the two preceding species, 

 not much wider at base than at apex, widest at middle, apex 

 with middle part subtruncate, anterior angles strongly advanced 

 but widely rounded, sides rounded anteriorly, rather straightly 

 narrowed posteriorly, posterior angles obtuse, disc with two small 

 impressions near base; the whole narrowly bordered throughout. 

 Scutellum equilaterally triangular, punctate. Elytra parallel, 

 very little convex longitudinally, slightly gibbous at shoulders, 

 humeral angle obtuse, apex bluntly rounded, very narrowly 

 margined and channelled; lineate-punctate, with about twelve 

 lines of punctures, besides a short scutellary row, the punctures 

 increasing in size outwards, unequally spaced, the rows closer 

 than in P. minor, the lateral punctures much coarser than in P. 

 ellipticus or P. cyaneus, and at least as large as in P. minor, the 

 lines on the flanks quite confused, the punctures there coarse and 

 irregular; at apex the lineate punctures very small but distinct. 

 Abdomen finely punctate and striolate; metasternum and its 

 epimera sparsely punctate, mesosternal cavity and intercoxal 

 process triangular; prosternum finely rugose, its process sharply 

 carinate, produced and narrowly rounded behind; tarsi as in the 

 two preceding. Dimensions, 14 x 6| mm. 



