32 Dr. SiiAiU' vu a new species <>/' Propalticus, 



\>y Drs. Lecoiite and Iloru of the P. ociiUdus. These distin- 

 guished savauts quite agree with me in loeatiug the genus in 

 the family MycetopJiagldn' near Litargns, but Dr. Leconte dues 

 nut tliiuk my opinion that the great saltatorial powers of the 

 species may be due to the peeuliar form of the front legs is 

 likely to prove correct, but rather opines that as in other jump- 

 ing Coleoptera this act is more probably jeiformed by the 

 hinder limbs. He farther notes that in comparing tlie P. 

 ociddtns with the must convex of the North American species of 

 Litargns — /y. haJteatu-s — he found the peculiar tibial spur to be 

 equally developed in each. As regards the tarsi there must 

 still remain some doubt. Di-. Horn considers them to be all 

 four-jointed; ]Mr. Matthews sees the four posterior feet to be 

 ft)iu--joiuted, but queries the anterior as being only three-jointed. 

 I could not quite satisfy myself about them but thought them 

 to be all four- jointed, but that possibly there might be a fifth 

 joint present. The probability is, therefore, that all are four- 

 jointed. 



rrojiulticns Junsoni, n. sp. 1*1. H, fig. 1. 



Brevis, latiusculus dei)rcssus, o}/ucus, subtilissime punctatiis, 

 ct pubescens, ferrugineus, pedibus pallide-testaceis, antenuis 

 tcuniljus, clava elongata, laxe articulata, fusca; prothorace utrin- 

 <pie versus latus liueis elevatis duabns munito ; elytris sulitiliter 

 trilineatis vol striatis. Long. H, Lit ^ mm. 



This little insect, though very similar to the Hawaiian P. 

 vculatns, is very distinct from it, being very much smaller in 

 size and of more depressed form, and having two linear mark- 

 ings on each side of the thorax parallel with its lateral margin; 

 the striai of the elytra are very fine and may be readily over- 

 looked, one is placed along the suture, one some little distance 

 within the shoulder, the third being placed ('(juidistantly iwnn 

 the other two. The jieculiar head, eyes, antennie and front 

 legs seen in the llawaiian species are here almost exactly re- 

 produced. 



