72 PSEUDORYCnODES CRUENTATUS. 



Belongs to the group of Pseudory diodes which has a slen- 

 der rostrum ; the species of this group may be divisable 

 according to the shape of the elytra at the tip. The new 

 species has the elytra rounded and emarginate in the middle 

 at the apex and consequently must be placed near Ps. 

 insignis Lewis from which it differs by the smaller head, by 

 the shorter rostrum, by the elytral furrows being narrower 

 and shallowly punctured and finally by the different dis- 

 position of the elytral lines which are also more numerous. 

 Any confusion of this new species with the others of the 

 same group is not possible, and indeed from Ps. Fruhstor- 

 feri Senna it is recognizable by the head which is smooth 

 above, from Ps. piliferus (Senna) by the elytra which are 

 bare, without hairs, and from Ps. Ritsemae (Senna) by the 

 rostrum , prothorax and antennal joints which are shorter 

 and otherwise shaped. 



Schizotrachelus interruptus , n. sp. 



cf. Castaneus , nitidus, capite leviter longiore guam latiore, 

 lateribus rectis , basi in medio late emarginato , haud tuber- 

 culato , lateribus integris , angulis posticis rotundatis, supra 

 sat convexo , laevi , f route minutissime foveolata. Metarostro 

 breviusculo , sat robusto ^ conico , sulcata; mesorostro rotun- 

 dato-ampliato , itidem sulcato; prorostro longitudine circiter 

 metarostri, gradatim antrorsum dilatato, sulcato. Antennarum 

 articuJo 3° brevi, obconico, 4° — 5° submonilijormibus, 6° — 8° 

 latioribus quam longioribus , subrectangularibus ; 9° et 10° 

 itidem latioribus quam. longioribus^ subrotundatis ; apicali 

 ovato-conico. 



Prothorace modice elongato , ovato-conico , dorso sulcato , 

 sulco antice abbréviato , lateribus laevibus. 



Elytris lateribus subparallelis , pone medium angustatis , 

 apice regulariter marginato-rotundatis , suturae emarginatis ^ 

 juxta suturam bisulcatis , sidco externo a medio interrupto 

 et punctis nonnullis continuato , apice redivivo ; disco et lateri- 

 bus leviter substriato-punctulatis. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XX.. 



