[January, 



ON A NEW SPECIES OF THINOBIUS, KIES. 

 BY E. A. KEWBERT. 



The interesting little S/.p%»« described below l,as been in m, 

 hand, for over a year, owing to the diffienlty of -"^'-'"y '^ ; 

 taintythafc it was new. I have snbu,itted spee.men to M Fau el 

 and to Captain Sainte Claire DeviUe. to both of who™ ,t ,s nnlu.o.n. 



Thtnobius pallidus, nov. spec. 

 Li.«.a.,.,,»Wt.,,»«„„s, wiU,thea„te„.<.an<Ue., ,t,U ,»U. .,. blacky 

 r,„„ton,eaa .„„ a„i»l .eg........ of" abdomen more o, 1... '""'^''^■JX\ 



,„„,„ „.., t„. „e.a ..,d tW, t„.e«,er ;^^-' ^ -^t; ^^e Xd.r 

 long as broad, club-.l.aped i 2 obeomc, 1, time, as loo, „„„,.„ the 



.ha' 1 1 S obconic, abont a. long a. broad ; 4 «r, small, t™.svei,e, o™' ^' '"^J 

 others, 5 globular I 6 a lUtle shorter than 5 and 7, '"f^y ''''''' ^ J^^Z 

 almost globular, but e.eh slightl,, larger than the preceding J"'."^ "/°™" " 

 ;„« al, bluutl, pointed at .be „,K. P.lpi with penultimate ,oi„ ^^^^^^ 

 aoieal ioi.it minute. Head rather .hining, rery closel, punetured, seal eel; pilose, 

 Zwt^uadrate, rather broader than long, anterior angles not P--'. In- 

 terior an.le. well marled , eon.tricted at base .0 form a neet, wliie i is ,i..bl. whe 

 tie head-is .verted, Thoi-a. Iians.erse, ahout i broader tban 1».>^.; - - ' 

 ■hining and more olosel, punetured than the bead, seareel, 1" <>». « ^ "^^^^ 

 hind the anterior angles, and from thenee ■>-<>"••> '»''- >»»"■" 7^';;-;' ' 

 are but little marled ; a short bristle is plaeed at the sides, near tlie anl.r or angW 

 base eurved Seutellnm small, triangular. Elytra about twiee as long as thoraz 

 Tat " nger than broad, dull, flnel, alutaeeous, hearing .hree short, pr„,eetu,g 

 ;!, esoneLside, distinetly, elo.el,. and e.eulv pub.seent, "*i^eu -Pe. 

 Abdomen linear, very elo.ely pnnetnred at the base, gradual), and le»s e o.el, «, 

 twarf the ap ., the last three or four segment, iutuscate posteriori, ■, mo'e 

 :„ ntt n the rest of the upper side, with some longer hail, .«-™- ^ > ^^^ 

 a„e puheseeneei Bth visible .eg.ueut niueh longer than 5,h, seareel, ^^^^ 

 Witliminuteso.ttcredgrauulatioos,.heape.-Uhdis,inetblaeliseta,. Length l,mm. 



Differs from all the other British species of the genus b, its in. 

 variable pale eolour and the structure of the antenna ; the sexes at 

 present are not distinguishable. 



The specimens described were found at Great Salkeld Cumber 

 hnd by Mr. H. Britten, to whom we are already indebted for several 

 xlove'lties. He has taken it very sparingly, both in spring and autumn, 

 under stones on a gravel bed, at the sides of a stream. 



13, Oppidan's Road, 



Primrose Hill, N.W. : 

 December I6t7i, 1908, 

 [It may not be out of place to note here that T. angmticeps, Eauv. 



