1184 COLEOPTEEA 



race latiusculo antennis angustato ante medium foveolato ; elytris 

 apicem versus obsolete tuberculatis. 



Long., 8mm. 



The whole surface is covered with a mixture of exudation and 

 scales, giving it a uniform dark colour, t)ie sets projecting through 

 this clothing; the second and third joints of the antennw are slender 

 and elongate, subequal in length ; the very short thick rostrum is a 

 little depressed between the eyes and carinate along the middle : 

 the thorax is broad, not narrowed at the base, but rather abruptly 

 narrowed in front ; it is rugose, and has a vague depression along 

 the middle, which near the front becomes conspicuous, it is also a 

 little depressed on either side : the elytra are broader than the 

 thorax, and have the third, fifth, and seventh interstices a little 

 raised ; this elevation terminates as a slight tubercle on the third 

 and fifth interstices in front of the declivous apex ; and, on the fifth, 

 there is another small tubercle behind the front one ; the seventh 

 interstice has no tubercle behind, but at the shoulder becomes so 

 strongly raised as to form a lateral margin : the serial punctuation 

 is obscured by the clothmg. 



Christchureh. C. M. Wakefield, Esq. Though very different in 

 form from E. lutosus, Pascoe, this species seems quite to agree with 

 it structurally. 



Obs. — Dr. Sharp redescribes the genus on the preceding page of 



the Transactions of the Boyal Dublin Society. — T. B. 



Epitimetes, Pascoe. 



Corpus robustum, dense squamosum, setosum. Rostrum breve 

 crassum ; scrobes perbreves. Antenna; elongatge scapo gracile, 

 prothoracis marginem attingente. Prothorax latiusculus, lobis 

 ocularibus nullis. Corbellis posterioribus leviter cavernosis. 



There can be no doubt as to the position of this genus, which 

 should be between Protophormus and Platyomida ; it is very dif- 

 ferent from the former genus in appearance, and differs in numerous 

 details, the eyes are more pointed below, the rostrum thicker and 

 more quadrate, and the hind coxae extremely widely separated ; the 

 scrobes are very short and their posterior part excessively vague, as 

 in Protopliormns, but nevertheless taking a different direction, being, 

 in fact, directed towards the lower part of the front of the eye, not 

 to the undersurface of the head ; the posterior corbels are very 

 evidently, though not broadly, cavernous ; the short rostrum and 

 obsolete scrobes readily distinguish the genus from Platj/omida ; 

 there is no trace of ocular lobes, and the short prosternum is but 

 little emarginate in front ; the metasternum is excessively short, 

 and the intercoxal process of the first ventral segment extremely 

 broad, quite truncate in front ; the second ventral segment much 

 shorter than the first ; the facies is quite similar to that of Bra- 

 chyolus, which, however, has a well-marked ocular lobe. 



Note. — For Prutophormus read Tigones. — T. B. 



