624 COLEOPTERA. 



Neoevas gen. no v. 



Rostrum not pterygiate, half the length of thorax. Head of about the 

 same width as the thoracic apex, rather broader, but not abruptly so, than 

 the rostrum. Scrobes deep, just oblong, beginning at some distance from 

 the apex and ending at the middle of the rostrum, they are situated at 

 the upper part of the sides and quite open above. Eyes widely separated 

 above, just free from the thorax, slightly prominent, obliquely-oval or 

 somewhat rotundate. Thorax with feebly developed ocular lobes, base 

 and apex truncate. Scutellum small. Elytra oblong, slightly incurved 

 and rather broader than thorax at the base, considerably narrowed near 

 the simple apices. 



Scape straight, very gently incrassate, inserted between the middle 

 and apex, attaining the front of thorax. Funiculus 7-articulate, basal 

 joint twice as long as broad, the next similar, third and fourth rather 

 shorter, seventh slightly broader than the submoniliform fifth and sixth ; 

 club elongate -oval, triarticulate. 



Femora moderately elongate, subclavate. Tibiae flexuous, the anterior 

 mucronate, with about four denticles along the inside ; posterior corbels 

 concave, without external truncature. Tarsi with brush-hke soles, penulti- 

 mate joint dilated and bilobed. 



Mentum subquadrate, not concealing the rigid palpi. Anterior coxae 

 placed at the middle of the emarginate prosternum, prominent and 

 contiguous, the intermediate pair moderately, the posterior widely separated. 

 Metasternum short. Basal ventral segment rather larger than second, 

 subtruncate between the coxae, its hind suture sinuate ; third and fourth, 

 united, hardly longer than fifth, with deep straight sutures. 



In the type of Haplolohus (2122) the rostrum is short and so gradually 

 dilated to the same width as the head that it would be difficult to specify 

 the line of demarcation ; the scrobes are subapical, placed more on the 

 upper surface and therefore more approximated above, and the scape is 

 subnodose at the extremity. Catoptes (750) has somewhat different scrobes, 

 the mandibular scar is quite visible, and the external truncature of the 

 posterior corbels though very narrow is quite discernible, and lias double 

 cilia ; in my Catoptes fur vus (2385) the posterior corbels have the truncature 

 more distinct, and so is the mandibular scar. 



4196. Neoevas celmisiae sp. nov. 



Suboblong, only moderately convex, opaque ; nigrescent, antennae 

 and tarsi rufo-piceous ; densely covered with depressed, rather small, 

 inconspicuous, dark ashy squamae ; the elytra, in addition thereto, bear 

 series of decumbent, rather short greyish setae, those on the rostrum and 

 thorax are irregular and slightly coarser. 



Head and rostrum nearly plane and, together, a fourth sliorter than 

 thorax, the apical portion of the rostrum closely punctate ; mandibles 

 moderately prominent, subacute at the extremity. Thorax of equal length 

 and breadth, rounded and widest before the niiddle, sinuate-angustate 

 behind, without superficial inequahties, closely and finely but not definitely 

 sculptured. Elytra jiist double the lengtli of thorax, hardly a third broader 

 where widest, their sides only feebly curved, considerably contracted near 

 the extremity ; they are distinctly striate -punctate, interstices nearly 

 plane, the third and fifth and the suture are, however, slightly elevated 

 behind the middle. 



