go [March, 



NOTES ON MELANDRYIDAE (8). 



BY G. C. CHAMPION, P.Z.S. 



{Continued from paije 40.) 



8. — Phloeotrya govnelJei, n. sp. 



^ . Elongate, opaque, almost g-labroiis ; nio-ro-piceoiis, the mouth parts, 

 palpi, antennae and legs ferruginous ; above and beneath densely, very finely 

 alutaceous (the surface appearing sericeoi^s), and impressed with exti'(nnely 

 minvite scattered punctvires, the ventral segments 2-5 smootiaer and shining. 

 Eyes prominent. Antennae moderately long, slender, joints 3-10 obconic, 

 gradually becoming shoiter and wider, 2 about as long as 10, 3 nearly twice as 

 long as 2. Maxillai'y palpi serrate, joints 2 and 3 broad, triangular, 4 long, 

 curved, cultriform, longer than 1-3 imited. Prothorax uneven, about as long- 

 as broad, compressed at the sides anteriorly, the latter sharply margined to 

 beyond the middle, and obliquely convergent before the hind angles, the latter 

 obtuse, the base bisinuate and shallowly trifoveate, the proplevira sharply 

 margined anteriorly. Scutellum strongly transverse. Elytra long, a little wider 

 than the prothorax, gradually narrowed from near the base, acviminate at the 

 apex, obsoletely costate. Abdomen margined at the sides ; fifth ventral segment 

 closely punctate posteriorly, arcuato-emarginate at the apex. Legs slender ; 

 anterior tarsi moderately dilated ; posterior tibiae somewhat ci\rved, widened 

 towards the apex, simple ; posterior tarsi with joint 1 very elongate. Length 11^, 

 breadth 3 mm. 



Hah. : Brazil, Itatiaya, alt. 2,400 metres, Eio de Janeiro 

 {E. Gounelle: 2.99). 



One male. Near P. alutacea ; the body nigro-piceous, and the 

 surface so finely alutaceous as to appear sericeous, the scattered punc- 

 tures extremely minute ; the prothorax (which is similarly obliquely 

 depressed on each side of the disc) not sinuate at the sides behind, 

 and with the hind angles obtuse ; the ventral surface smoother and 

 shining. 



Amomphopalpus. 



Amomphopaljms, Fairmaire et G-ermain, Coleopt. Chil., ii, p. 5 

 (I860)*; Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1863, p. 231. 



Dentipalpus, Philippi, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1863, p. 133, pi. 3, 

 figs. 2, 2a-e. 



The types of these genera are A. qnadrijjhiiiatns F. and Gr., and 

 D. pictus Philippi, respectively, both from Chile, and, to judge from 

 the descriptions, apparently the same species. In the Fry collection at 



* This reference is given by Fiiirnuiire and (ierniain in their later paper ; the puVilication has 

 not been seen by me. 



