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The elytra have scarcely any traces of the minute striae which 

 distinguish the two preceding species, and have only three costae on 

 each ; the interstices being broad and quite free from punctures or 

 elevated lines. The upper edge of the truncature of the elytra is 

 subdentate. 



4. EUDEOMUS EMARGINATUS, PutzeyS. 



I have received from Dr. Baden a pair of a small and very distinct 

 species under the above name, but I have not been able to find a pub- 

 lished description of it. It measures 13 lin. The thorax has traces 

 of transverse striae, especially behind, but is otherwise smooth and 

 polished ; it is more quadrate in outline than the other species, and 

 the hind angles are more obtuse. The elytra are minutely strigose 

 only in the interstices ; the costse, six in number, besides a slender 

 7th or submarginal one, are narrow, the 1st, 3rd, and 5th, however, 

 become obsolete before reaching the apex, and the latter, in the ? , is 

 strongly tridentate. The soles of the tarsi are clothed with long, 

 reddish, stiff hairs. 



Bartholomew Road, Xentish Town, N.W. : 

 December, 1878. 



DESCEIPTIOlSr OF A NEW SPECIES of SIDEEODACTYLUS, INJURIOUS 

 TO GRAPE YINES (IMPORTED FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE) 

 IN THE ISLAND OF ASCENSION. 



BY r. P. PASCOE, F.L.S. 



SiDEEODACTTLUS OKISTATUS, n. SJJ. 



Head and rostrum rather broad and depi'essed, speckled with small golden-green 

 scales ; antennae long and very slender, the second joint of the fanicle more than 

 twice as long as the first ; prothorax round, convex above, black, the anterior margin 

 and sides densely covered with yellowish metallic scales, two large oblong spots com- 

 posed of similar scales behind ; elytra copper-brown, depressed, widest behind the 

 middle, the apex rounded, longitudinally punctured, and, when viewed sideways, 

 transversely wrinkled, the outer margin posteriorly with golden-green scales ; anterior 

 femora glossy black, tibia and tarsus passing gradually into pale brown, the former 

 curved and having six or seven well-marked denticles on its inner border ; intermediate 

 and posterior legs testaceous ; all the tarsi pubescent ; body beneath black, the sides 

 speckled with golden-green scales. Length, 43 lines. 



Siderodactt/lus is amongst English genera most allied to Tani/me- 



