1373.] 207 



Near S. claviger, Gerst., in the section without punctured Btriao ; 

 but the antennae have the club with joints very short for a Stenotarsus, 

 . and the punctuation is finer and closer than in 8. claviger. 



In rubbish heaps : probably occurs throughout the islands. 



Trih. IV. — Endomychid^ adsciti. 

 Pajstamomus, g. n. 

 Antennarum clava triarticulata, articulo nono decimo suh- 

 (Bquali. Pronotum ampJtim, basi hisulcatd. Coxae anticcB contigucB. 

 Tarsi visihiliter -i-articulati. 



Genus Leiesti pt'oximus, at tJiorace ampliore et corpore convexiore, 

 forma magis Sylaiw, distinctum videtur. 



Panamomtjs Lewisi, sp. n. 



Ohlongus, piceiis, nitidus, thorace amplo, parce punctata, elytrisque 

 apicem versus dilutiorihus, pedihus antennisque testaceis. 



Long. carp. 1 Un, 



Caput parvum, epistoinate a lined transversa marginato. Thorax sub- 

 quadratus, margine laterali sinuata, angulis anticis acutis dejlexis, posteriorihus 

 fere rectis, sulcis duohus profundls, extus plied recta determinatis. Elytra 

 stria suturali leviter impressd, integrd, et seriebus sex punctorum haud conspicuis. 

 Scutellum magnum, semicirculare. 



Nagasaki ; a single example in fungoid growth on a Spanish 

 chestnut : 1866. 



Rusper, Horsham : January, 1873. 



DESCEIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF COLEOFTEBA FROM CHILI. 

 BY EDWXN C. EEED. 



GrXEIOSOMUS KlNGI, Sp. 71. 



Niger, nitidwlus, sub-parallelus, suh-planatus ; pronoto transversa, 

 antice arcuatitn emarginato, marginihus lateralihus reflexis,postice prope 

 hasim sulco arcuata impresso, anguJis p)osticis productis ; prosterna in 

 medio piostice producto ; eJytris basi punctis magnis irreguluribus im- 

 pressis, sulcisque latis, cinereo-pubescentibus, obliquis, omatis. 



Long. carp. 16 — 19, lat. 7 — 9 mill. 



Hab. : North Chile. 



I have compared this insect with the fourteen species of Gyrioso- 

 mus in the National Collection, and with the descriptions of five or six 

 other species supposed to be Chilian, and I find it differs from them 



