484 Mr. F. Bates's de-trnptions of Hcteromera. 



down middle of r-own, scantily furnished with fine black hairs 

 at sides and behina: epistoma broadly truncate in front, black in 

 the middle, labrum black, sinuate in front: antenna? with two basal 

 joints red above, the rest black, strongly depressed, the joints 

 longitudinally excavated on their inner side, joint 3 long, tri- 

 angular, i-G much shorter, gradually narrower, 3-7 more or 

 less strongly obliquely emarginate at apex, the inner angle 

 produced, 8-9 nearly equal in length, but gradually narrower, 

 truncated at apex, 11 longer and narrower than 10, cylindric, 

 and rounded at tip: prothorax black, convex, depressed in 

 middle of base, strongly contracted in front, feebly so behind; 

 closely and deeply punctured and pilose ; sides, apex and median 

 line usually covered with a dull whitish pubescence: elytra dull 

 black, strongly divaricate, finely densely grauulose and pubescent, 

 transversely rugulose, margins, and sometimes a dorsal stripe, 

 clothed with a dull whitish pubescence: vinderside black, and 

 clothed with dull whitish decumbent hairs: front tibia; emar- 

 ginate in the middle within: tarsi simple. 



9 Smaller, antennas shorter, narrower, 3-7 not emarginate 

 at apex. Length $ 9-10 lines, 9 7^ lines. 

 Muree. 



Sitaris (CriolisJ pectoraliK, n. sp. 



Shining testaceous, tips of mandibles, eyes, scutollnm, meso- 

 and meta-sterna and their flanks, black, middle and liind coxa? 

 shining black : antenna? filiform, last seven joints fuscous black, 

 last joint elongate, tapering: head convex, smooth, faintly punc- 

 tate; labrum notched in front: prothorax convex, transverse, 

 widest in the middle, more abruptly narrowed in front than 

 behind, faintly punctured: elytra pale cinnamon -brown, tapering 

 gradually behind, thinly clothed Avith a fine silky-greyish 

 pubescen'3e, and witli two or three slightly flexuous costa?: upper 

 division of the tarsal claws finely pectinated. Length 4| lines. 



Kogyar. 



