BY EDWARD NEWMAN. 489 



with minute punctures in irregular lines : the legs are rather less 

 elongate than in T. striatus, brown, with the basal portion of the 

 femora and the entire tibiae dusky ferruginous. 



Inhabits New Holland. Presented by the Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Sp. 4. Tany. gibbicollis. Niger, concolor, pilosus: protkorax 

 (jfibbosm, crebre punctatus punctis confluentibus : elytra striata, 

 strics basim versus interrupt w,punctorum elongatorum compositw, 

 apicem versus integral profundce, interstitiis elevatis, pu7ictis 

 minutis subseriatim impressis: pedes mediocres concolores. 

 (Corp. long. '5 unc. ; lat. '2 unc.) 



Inhabits New Holland. Presented by Mr. Imeson. 



Genus. — Melolontha, Fabricius. 



Melo. nummicudens. Rufo-picea; undique sqiiamidis subrotun- 

 datis argenteis plus minusve tecta. (Corp. long. I'Sunc. ; 

 lat. '6 unc.) 



This insect, which exceeds Melolontha vulgaris in size, is of a pitchy 

 red colour, and is clothed more or less thickly in every part with 

 nearly circular silvery scales : towards the apex of the elytra, on 

 the podex, and on nearly the entire under surface of the insect, 

 these scales are more closely crowded together ; while on the head, 

 prothorax, anterior portion of the elytra, and legs, they are more 

 sparingly scattered. 



Inhabits the East Indies. I have received it from Singapore. 



Natural Order. — Carabites, Newman. 



Genus. — Trimorphus, Stephens. 



Trim. Erro. Nigra, prothorace supra elytrisque nigro-ceneis 

 nitidis: pedes picei: antennarum articidus V\ basi et apice 

 2"'. apice tantum albidi: elytra striata. (Corp. long. '2 

 unc. ; lat. "075 unc.) 



The antennae are long, slender, and nearly black, the apical portion 

 paler and somewhat downy, as usual in the family ; the basal joint 

 is elongate, and is nearly white both at its base and apex ; the 

 second joint is pale at the apex only : the head is black and 

 smooth : the prothorax is nigro-aeneous, obcordate, narrow, and 

 truncated posteriorly, having a deep longitudinal median line, 

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