206 Arthur M. Lea: 



In appearance it is like a little bit of charcoal, and I venture 

 to suggest for it the '" popular " name of " Goudie's charcoal 

 beetle," the name by which it has been frequently mentioned 

 in corres;pondence. It was taken by Mr. Goudie in a nest of 

 very small ants under a board. 



The punctures are veiy dense, but not net-like as in several 

 species of the genus, nor do they anywhere become striated in 

 appearance. 



Chlamydujisis variolosa, n.sp. (Fig. 21.) 



Dark brown, appendages more reddish ; feebly shining. 



Head immersed in prothorax ; face vertical and with distinct 

 and fairly numerous punctures. Antennae with basal joint 

 large, irregularly triangular in shape, and about two-thirds the 

 expanse of head. Prothorax about twice as wide as the length 

 down middle, front margins narrowly raised and lobed, the 

 lateral margins wider and less raised ; with fairly large and 

 rather dense punctures, the interspaces with smaller and dense 

 ones. Elytra about as long as wide ; with a wide irregular 

 transverse depression near base, the depression scarcely punc- 

 tate, but not highly polished ; each side of suture at base with 

 an obtuse densely punctate tubercle ; between this and shoulder 

 a large, subtriangular, raised, densely punctate space, its inner 

 apical margin somewhat irregular ; each shoulder divided from 

 the medio-basal space by an oblique line, from the apex of which 

 proceeds a small and thin pencil of hairs, its apex widely 

 notched and sides irregularly ol^liquely striated, the striae all 

 converging to the notch ; behind medio-basal elevation on each 

 side with an obtuse tubercular elevation ; the surface elsewhere 

 feebly undulating and with punctures much as on prothorax. 

 Under surface and py- and propy-gidium with punctures as 

 on pronotum, except that tJie larger ones are rather deeper and 

 smaller. Prosternum feebly lobed in front, not depressed or 

 carinated along middle. Metasternum slightly longer than pro- 

 and meso-stemum combined, with a deeply impressed median 

 line. Abdomen with basal segment about half the length of 

 metasternum. Legs long, femora narrowly grooved ; tibiae 

 strongly inflated near Ijase, and thence regularly narrowed to 

 apex ; tarsi long and thin. Length 2^ mm. 



