454 Mr. Gilbert J. Arrow's Classification of 



the mesosternum are silky and opaque. It is one of the 

 smallest species of the genus, being about the size and 

 shape of V. assimilis and cirrhaius, from which it differs 

 by the strong spine on each side of the four posterior 

 tibige and the deep but unpunctured elytral strise. The 

 ridges of the head are well developed. The posterior 

 carinse are almost in a straight line and the frontal carinie 

 form a very acute angle at the base of the median horn 

 and afterwards rather abruptly diverge obtusely and en- 

 close a broad tubercle. The terminal tubercles are promi- 

 nent and separated by an interval rather more than half 

 the breadth of the clypeus. There is no sharply incised 

 line on the vertex of the head behind the horn. 



Veturius ])unctatostriatus, sp. n. 



Sat brevis, nitidus, capite Icevissimo, clypeo paulo excurvato, 

 utroque angulo late fossulato, cornu simplice ; protliorace parum 

 transverse, lateribus sat regulariter curvatis, fossa laterals lata, 

 antice liaud dilatata ; scutello crebre punctato, linea media Isevi ; 

 elytris profunde sulcatis, sulcis ubique punctatis, interstitiis valde 

 convexis, prosterno postice dentato, mesosterno antice et lateraliter 

 sericeo, postice nitido, metasterno nitido, impunctato, medio postice 

 transverse impresso ; tibiis 4 posterioribus post medium fortiter 

 spinosis. 



Long. 38 mm. 



Hah. British Guiana, Georgetown. 



A number of specimens were collected by the Rev. W. 

 Harper in 1877. The species is very distinct from all 

 hitherto described and is easily recognisable by its com- 

 paratively short form and the very deep punctured striae 

 of the elytra. Like the last it must also be grouped with 

 V. tuherculifrons in Kuwert's arrangement. The head is 

 very smooth, with a conical median horn, of which the 

 lateral outgrowths ("nebenhocker") are obsolete. The 

 clypeus is slightly rounded in front and minutely notched 

 in the middle and it is divided into three parts of equal 

 length by the frontal tubercles, the two lateral divisions 

 being rather deeply excavated. The carinae from the base 

 of the horn to the frontal tubercles form almost a semi- 

 circle. The transverse impression behind the horn is 

 strongly curved and deeply incised. The prothorax is 

 about 1| times as broad as it is long. The lateral margin 

 is regularly curved and the channel is deep and punctured 



