264 F. p. PASCOE 



prothorax subeonicus, postice paulo rotundatus, antico minus protensus, 

 a])ico latior et hilobatus, pone a]ncem longitudinaliter )ii- postice loviter 

 tri-impressus ; elytra utrinque rotundata, tuberculata, tuborculis minusculis, 

 granulis vage adspersa; tibioB mediocres. Long. 7 mm. 



Ilab. Yule Is., /.. M. D'Alberlis. 



Allied to the last , but the two basal joints of the funicle 

 equal, the prothorax broader at the apex and less produced, 

 and the tubercles or callosities on the elytra not so prominent. 

 In one specimen the scales are of a pale ashy colour. 



!2'J5. P. ordinarius, n. sp. Ellipticus, omnino obscur!_'. ailaceo-sqnamii- 

 losus, granulis parvis conico-eh^vatls sat confertim vcstitus; rostrum ro- 

 bustum ; antennas ferruginoiB ; prothorax oblongus , utrinque rotundatus , 

 basi paulo , antice multo angustior , granulis versus apicem fere obsolotis ; 

 elytra oblongo-cordata , in medio jn'othorace jiaulo latiora, granulis nume- 

 rosis, apice setigeris, irregularitor instructa, interstitiis jilus minusve exca- 

 vatis ; tibiai olongatae. Long. 10 mm. 



Hab. Is. Faor (N. Guinea), L. M. D'Alberlis. 

 A commonpliice-looking species, but not to be approximated 

 to any of its congeners. 



A.\yoro\\ot\xs. 



Poroptero forsan aifinis, sed corpus olongatum depressum; tibiae breves, 

 compressa;; prothorax basi Ijisinuatus, etc. 



Poropterus as defined by Schonherr and Lacordaire has no cha- 

 racters as a genus, not liable to exception, and in any attem})t 

 to divide the species into genera it would, as it appears to 

 me, be undesirable to depend on a single character. Schonherr 

 knew only four species, in the Munich Catalogue there are 

 eight, in my collection there are 68, many still undescribed. 

 I separate Aporonotus as it is too unlike any form of Po- 

 7'opterus to be satisfactorily referred to that genus. 



22G. A. simplex, n. sp. Anguritus, niger , obscure silaeeo-squamosua; ro- 

 strum breviusculum, versus apicem vix dilatatum, squamosum; antenna; fer- 

 rugincae articulus l)asalis funiculi secundo longioro, cjBteris transvei'sis ; 

 prothorax in nit'dio rotundatus, confertim jmnctatus, regione scutcllari 

 paulo impressa; elytra prothorace baud latiora, apice singulatim rotundata, 

 btriato-punctata , puuctis oblongis majusculis , Interstitiis 3-5-7 elevatis; 



