1194 COLEOPTERA 



2114. C tenebricus, "•■?• Bochf not broad, but little varie- 

 gate ; el5^tral hind slope almost wholly grey, squamosity elsewhere 

 infuscate-grey, but paler on thorax and beak ; setoe grey. 



AntenncG red, short and thick, bearing yellow hairs and setae, 

 joints 4-7 almost bead-like, seventh but little larger than sixth. 

 No scutelhim Vi's.W'Ae, merely a triangular depression. Elytra widely 

 inarcuate at base, rather narrow, nob greatly exceeding thorax in 

 width, suboblong ; finely striate-punctate ; third and fifth inter- 

 stices slightly raised, but without nodosities. 



This is, I think, more than a mere varietal form of the two pre- 

 ceding species. 



Length (rost. inch), 2i lines ; breadth, |- line. 



One, from the same source as the last. 



Brachyolus. 



(White ; Voy. '■ Er." and " Terr.") 



Piosternum deeply emarginate in front. Ocular lobes well de- 

 veloped. Bosirum short and thick. Scrobes deep, subapical, rather 

 short, with a slight downward tendency. Eyes oblique, subovate, 

 widely distant above, hardly free from thorax. Scape reaching 

 backwards to front of thorax. Scutelluvi invisible. Thorax widest 

 near the front, uneven above. Legs rather long but stout ; posterior 

 tibiae quite open at exti'emity, not cavernous. Mandibular scar 

 present. Front coxce contiguous. 



These characters are derived from the following species ; the 

 typical one I have not yet seen :— 



2115. B. elegans, ns. Fuscous, densely covered with de- 

 pressed, yellowish-grey, brassy, aiid nearly pure-white scales ; these 

 last predoiiiinate on the third and fifth interstices of the elytra near 

 the base, and on a broad space behind the middle, not forming a 

 fascia however ; legs and antenna pale fusco-rufous. 



Rostrum about as long as thorax, stout, slightly expanded in 

 front, so that the deep scrobes are quite visible from above, not 

 carinate, convex. Head depressed between the eyes ; these but 

 little convex, the thoracic margin slightly encroaching upon them. 

 Antenna, pubescent ; scape squamose ; funiculus longer than scape, 

 basal two joints of almost equal length, joints 3-7 decrease in 

 length ; club ovate, triarticulate. Thorax nearly as long as broad, 

 slightly narrowed posteriorly, somewhat uneven. Scuicllum in- 

 visible. Elytra convex, shoulders oblique, slightly broader than 

 base of thorax ; their punctures arranged in double rows on the 

 disc, the third and fifth interstices are somewhat elevated and pro- 

 longed forwards, and culminate in nodosities on the hind slope, the 

 inner nodosities larger than the outer, the suture between these 

 protuberances a little raised, becoming more so behind so as almost 

 to form another nodosity near the apex. 



This is a peculiarly interesting species because of the presence of 



