ANEMEROIUES. 



Ill 



77. Anemeroides erinaceus, .sp. nov. 



Colour black, with brown scaling, which on the elytra is varie- 

 gated with grey and whitish spots, especially at the sides; on the 

 disk there is a broad darker band running obliquely from the 

 shoulder to near the suture and a broad transverse dark band 

 behind the middle ; upper surface with short erect setse. 



Head plane, longitudinally rugose and with a short central 

 furrow. Rostrum longer thau broad, very slightly broadened 



Fig. 30).— Anemeroides erinaceus, Mshl. 



towards the apex, the upper surface plane, with a large deep cen- 

 tral impression at the base and four longitudinal carinte. Pro- 

 thorax a little broader than long, its sides straight and very 

 gradually narrowed from the base till quite close to the apex, 

 where they are sharply constricted so as to form a distinct 

 lateral angulation ; the upper surface very rugose, \A-ith irregular 

 deep confluent fovese. Elytra oblong-ovate, the shoulders sloping, 

 but with the humeral angle obtusely prominent, the sides scarcely 

 rounded, acuminate behind, the apices divergent and each with a 

 very short sharp mucro ; below and behind the humeral tubercle 

 is a low rounded elevation, followed by a shallow impression ; the 

 strise deeply punctate, the intervals about as broad as the stride 

 (when the scaling is intact), slightly convex and with rows of 

 erect white setae. Legs with dense brown scaling and lono- 

 setae, the tibiae with one, the femora a\ ith two or three dark 

 bands. 



Length, 7^ mm. ; breadth, 3| mm. 



ISBIA. 



Type (S in the British Museum. 



