CTMOPHORUS. 203 



Genus CYMOPHORUS. 



Cvmophorus, Kirhj, Zool. Journ. iii, 1827, \). 271 ; IJ'estw., Thes. 



'Ent. O.von. 1874, p. 16. 

 Ptychophorus, Schaum, Germars Zeitschr.iVi, 1841, p. 271; Lacord,, 

 Gen. Col. iii, 1856, p. 544. 



Type, Cipnophorus vndatus, Kirby (S. Africa). 



Eange. Africa, India, Indo-China. 



Small, compact, elongate, and more or less clothed with hairs or 

 setae. Clypeus short and broad, with the front margin straight 

 and reflexed. Eyes very prominent. Basal joint of antenna not 

 large. Prothorax transverse, broadly emarginate before the 

 sciitellum. Last pair of spiracles very prominent, spinose. Meso- 

 sternum very narro\\' between the middle coxae and scarcely pro- 

 duced, forming a right-angled lamina. Legs of moderate length, 

 the front tibia rather slender and armed with two equal blunt 

 teeth placed close together at the extremity. Tarsi 5-jointed 

 and slender. 



The species here described is the first discovered in non- 

 African localities. The chief home of the genus is tSoutheru Africa, 

 where the species are rather numerous. 



181. Cymophorus pulcliellus, sp. n. (Plate II, fig. 5.) 



Shining black, with two large bright red patches upon each 

 elytron, placed one before the middle and the other behind it, 

 approximately quadrate in shape and touching the outer margins, 

 where they are united by a narrow band. 



The body is long, narrow and parallel-sided, clothed with short, 

 coarse, silvery set^e upon the head, the front and sides of the 

 pronotum, the shoulders, the p^'gidium and the lower surface 

 (except along the middle). The head is entirely rugose and the 

 pronotum strongly and coarsely punctured — less closely upon the 

 posterior half. It is distinctly broader than it is long, the sides 

 are strongly contracted towards the front and slightly towards 

 the hind margin, which is approximately straight, with the angles 

 distinct but obtuse and the middle broadly excised. There is a 

 large deep pit close to the hind margin on each side. The scutellum 

 is very smooth, and the ehjtra are strongly punctured at the front, 

 lateral and hind margins, and have besides a few irregular longi- 

 tudinal rows of punctures. There is a punctured pit near each 

 shoulder, a longitudinal depression, containing several fine striae, 

 near the sutural margin, and a transverse impression at the middle 

 of each elytron occupying the space between the two red patches. 

 The sides of the elytra are prominent at the shoulders, strongly 

 sinuated behind them and rounded at the extremity. The 

 pygidium is large, triangular, and rather closely hairy. The 

 middle of the metastemum and abdomen are smooth and shining, 

 and the sides hairy. The last two ventral segments are bent 

 downwards. The front tibia is bent outwards at the extremity 

 and terminates in two very closely approximate teeth. 



