and a neio genus of Rhyncophorous Coleoftera. 19 



parallelus, rufus, antennarum clava obscuriore, irregu- 

 lariter pallido-squamosus, breviter setulosus ; prothorace 

 medio dilatato, dense indistincteque punctato ; elytris 

 minus elongatis, tliorace latioribus, fortiter punctatis, 

 humeris nullo modo prominulis. Long, l^r mm. 



The antenna are moderately long, the 1st and 2nd 

 joints moderately stout, the 3rd longer than the 2nd. 

 The thorax has the surface nearly even, indistinctly punc- 

 tured, and with very short depressed whitish -yellow 

 scales ; it is much narrowed both in front and behind. 

 The elytra are not elongate ; they are slightly rounded at 

 the sides and narrowed towards the shoulders, which are 

 not in the least acute or prominent ; they are of a reddish 

 colour, indefinitely marked with darker, and are coarsely 

 though not distinctly punctured, and bear pale scales or 

 depressed setce, and short erect white seta?. The legs are 

 concolorous red, and are rather thick and conspicuously 

 setose. 



The one individual I have seen is a male. The species 

 differs from Proierhinus ohscurus by some differences of 

 colour, clothing and form ; its less elongate elytra, and 

 the less evenly-curved sides of the thorax, render it pro- 

 bable that it is a distinct species. 



Proterhinus dehilis,x\.s^. Angustulus, nigro-rufescens, 

 minus laste variegatus, antennis nigris, apice obsolete 

 clavatis; corpore setis depressis et erectis irregulanter 

 vestito. Long. 1| — 1|- mm. 



This is a small narrow species of dark colour, and dis- 

 tinguished from the allies here described by the structure 

 of the antennae, Avhich are less elongate ; they have the 

 1st and 2nd joints thick, the 2nd being quite like a bead, 

 about as long as broad, the 3rd is rather more elongate 

 than the 2nd, the 9th is scarcely different from the 8th, 

 the 10th and the lltli are a little thicker ; the thorax and 

 elytra do not differ in any very conspicuous manner from 

 the same parts in P. obscurus. I have seen one male and 

 one female of this species. 



Some of the species I have above attempted to describe 

 I have not found very easy to distinguish from one 

 another by characters easily conveyed by a description. 

 P. vestitus is the largest species, with the most variegated 

 colours, and is readily to be identified by the more uneven 

 surface of the thorax, and by its peculiar abrupt con- 



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