THREE NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA. 99 
obscure testaceous spot on the disc, before the middle, united to 
the shoulder by a narrow testaceous line, and another similarly 
placed spot just behind the middle. Under side shining pale 
testaceous, the sterna very finely and irregularly punctured, 
abdominal segments still more finely punctured. Legs pale 
testaceous. Leneth 5—64 mm.; width of prothorax 3—33 mm. 
This insect, in its attenuated form and peculiar sculpture, 
differs from any previously described species of the genus. In 
one specimen the testaceous stripes at the base of the elytra are 
considerably broader than in the others, the discal spots are also 
proportionately larger. 
Lasiodactylus stelidotoides, n. sp. 
Lordites stelidotoides, Murray in litt. 
Oval, about twice as long as broad, pitchy brown, very 
sparingly clothed with very fine yellowish-grey pubescence; the 
margins narrow, reflexed and rather finely punctured. Head 
transverse, finely and closely punctured. Antenne with the 
apical joint testaceous. Prothorax at the base more than twice 
as broad as long, rather narrower in front, moderately closely and 
finely punctured; anterior margin strongly emarginate, the sides 
of the emargination oblique; anterior angles slightly obtuse; 
sides arcuate; posterior angles slightly acute. Scutellum trans- 
verse, rounded behind, very finely and closely punctured. Elytra 
about twice as long as the head and prothorax together, as broad 
at the base as the prothorax, moderately strongly striate-punctate, 
the alternate interstices rather wide and costiform ; shoulders pro- 
minent ; anterior angles slightly obtuse ; sides arcuately narrowed 
to the apex: each elytron with two rather obscure dull red spots, 
one near the scutellum, the other on the disc, considerably before 
the middle, and a moderately distinct irregular lunate reddish 
marking just behind the middle, the convex side of which is 
towards the suture. Legs piceous, tarsi a little paler. Length 
4} mm.; width 3 mm. 
For this interesting species I have adopted the MS. name, 
stelidotoides, proposed for it by the late Mr. Andrew Murray. In 
form it is remarkably like a Stelidota, the absence of a posternal 
process will, however, at once remove it from that genus. I have 
made a careful dissection of the mouth-organs, and find that 
they agree with those of the genus Lasiodactylus. 
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