1875.) 219 



Ent. Fr., 18G2), the present Gymnetron muet be closely allied to G. 

 pilosiiin, Bef*sor, a species whicli occurs in southern Europe and the 

 north of Africa ; nevertheless, it would appear to be not quite so large, 

 and to have the autennje (except the club), the tibia?, and the tarsi, of 

 a bright rufo-ferruginous ; and its elytra ai'e, I suspect, more straight- 

 ened at the sides. It is depressed and black, and its entire surface is 

 densely clothed with elongated cinereous hairs, which are intermingled 

 with a few darker ones ; and its scape is somewhat lengthened, and 

 its tibia) are unusually robust, for a member of this genus. T. Y. W. 



Genus PIMELIA. 

 Fabricius, Sj/sf. Enf., 251 (1775). 



PiMELTA MALLEATA, sp. 71. 



P. parva, suhnitida; capite prothoraceqve distincte et argute asperato-punctulatis 

 Cpunctts in medio gradatim minutiorihiis, sed antice et versus latera majoribus, necnon 

 in hoc in luberculos magnos transientihus) , h6c hrevi, ad latera valde rotundato, hasi 

 sinttato, et utritique in disco plus minus irregulariter incequali : scutello parvo, scnti- 

 formi; elgtris valde malleato-incequalihus, aut transversim grosse rugatis, fere 

 pHnctoriim, grantilorum costarumque careniibus ; pedibus nigro-j)iceis. 



Long. carp. lin. 6-62. 

 Habitat in montibus "Atlas," a periiiss. J. D. Hooker, M.D., parce depreJiensa. 



A very distinct little species, which may easily be known by its 

 comparatively small size (for a Pimclia), by the conspicuous subas- 

 perated punctules of its head and prothorax (the latter of which is 

 considerably rounded at the sides), by its rather small and scutiform 

 scutellum, and (more particularly) by the structure of its elytra — on 

 which the punctures, tubercles, and costa? are almost obsolete, but 

 which have their entire surface coarsely wrinkled, or transversely 

 malleatcJ — the inequalities, however, becoming less decided as they 

 approach the scutellum. The discovery of this species is due to 

 the researches of Dr. J. D. Hooker, who met wiih it, as I am told by 

 Mr. Blackmorc, in the "middle regions" of the Atlas range. 



T. V. AV. 



Genus IIOPATIIUM. 

 Fabricius, Syst. Ent., 76 [script. Opal rum] (1775). 



lloPATRUM IIooKEBi (Blackmorc, in Hit.), up. n. 



IT. oblongum, nigrum, rugulosum, opacum,subralvum {sc. sul)iilissime,hrevissime , 

 et parcissime griseo-pubescens) ; genis ante oculos valde esslantibu.1, rotuudato- 

 angulatis ; capite proihoraceque deme, profunde, et confuse a.iperato- (aut granulaio-) 

 punctafis, hoc lalo, ad latera a>quallU'r rotundato, angulis posticis acutis, postice in 



