1404: COLEOPTEKA 



Obs. — Three varieties occur. 



Var. A. Head not so dark, distinctly bordered with testaceous. 

 Elytra not distinctly spotted, the light colour forming suffused 

 patches. 



Var. B. Head testaceous at the sides ; sides of thorax with 

 suffused spots only. Elytra nearly all dark, the series of punctures 

 with a tendency to unite by pairs at the base. 



These forms may afterwards prove to be distinct species ; at 

 present I treat them as varieties only. 



2447. P. lineatUSj '^-s. Nitld, fusco-testaceous, the middle of 

 the thorax and a large portion of the elytra fuscous, legs concolorous 

 sordid-testaceous or feebly reddened, antennae and palpi testaceous, 

 club infuscate. 



Head rather short, epistome truncate ; from each antenna an 

 oblique line extends inwardly, meeting the opposite one on the 

 vertex ; the surface is closely and distinctly but finely punctured. 

 Thorax not quite so closely, but more distinctly, punctured than the 

 head. Ebjtra with series of closely-placed moderate punctures 

 which become striae behind and along the sides ; near the middle of 

 the base the serial punctures are hardly more obvious than those 

 on the interstices. 



Underside reddish-brown. The prosternum slightly raised or 

 swollen on the middle ; in front of this there is a slight angulation. 

 The abdomen marked in nearly the same way as in the typical species. 



This is rather more broadly oval than P. signatus ; the eyes are 

 not quite so prominent ; the punctuation of the thorax, instead of 

 being distinctly and rather abruptly coarser at the sides, becomes 

 coarser gradually ; the serial punctures on the elytra are not so well 

 marked ; and the mentum is more deeply emarginate. 



Var. A. Body testaceous, middle of thorax smoky-brown, a large 

 part of the head fuscous, elytra somewhat infuscate, and in front of 

 the scutellum there is a round fovea. 



Length, IJ lines ; breadth, f line. 



Capleston. I have seen three specimens ; these were sent at 

 different times by Mr. Cavell. 



Adolopus (Gen., p. 940). 



2448. A. COnvexus, '^-s. Convex, shining, pitchy-black ; 

 lateral margins and legs red ; tarsi, palpi, and antennae more or 

 less rufo-testaceous, the club infuscate. 



Head broad, minutely and indistinctly punctate. Antennce short. 

 Tliorax strongly transverse, the sides rounded towards the front ; the 

 anterior angles much rounded, the posterior nearly rectangular ; its 

 surface very finely punctured, and with two distinct basal fovejB. 

 Scutellum nearly smooth. Elytra finely and moderately closely 

 punctured, the sides and apical portion with series of coarser punc- 

 tures. 



Eather larger and more convex than A. altulus (No. 158), the sides 

 of the body nearly vertical, the elytral margins a little explanate at 



