Mr. T. V. Wollaston on the Tarphii. 373 



Coleopterous insect with whicli I am acquainted, — the only instance 

 that I can now recall in whicli the organs of sight are thus fur- 

 nished (and even there in only a very slight degree) being the 

 Acritus littoralis (a minute member of the Histeridce), which I have 

 captiu-ed from beneath sea-weed in the Canary Islands, on the sandy 

 shores of Lanzarote. 



I have much pleasure in dedicating it to its captor. 



§ II. Corpus minoris magnitiidinis ; oculis minonbus, niulis ; 

 scutelh minuto, mjre observando ; alls obsoUtis. 



(Subgenus Tarpkiosoina.) 



Tarphiodes indicus, n. sp, (PI. XVIII. fig. 1.) 



T. oblongo-obovatus, niger, vix subnitidus, satis robustis erectis fulves- 

 centibus parce teetus ; prothorace brevi, iu disco profimde punctato, 

 ad latera valde at sub;equaliter rotuiidato ; elytris convaxis, seriatim 

 tuberculatis ; antanuis fenugineis, clava dilutiore ; pedibus piceo-fer- 

 rugineis, tibiis -valde setosis. 



Long, coi-j). lin. 2-2J. 



Habitat ad Coimbatoor, in India australi, a Dom. M. J. Walhouse re- 

 pei-tus. 



In its apterous body and but very slightly developed scutellum, 

 no less than in its diminished bulk, more ovate outline, and smaller, 

 itHsetose eyes, the present beetle approaches the nonnal Tarphii far 

 more closely than the preceding one does ; nevertheless the many 

 and important characters which separate it entirely from that genus 

 have already been pointed out. In external fades, however, it bears 

 so strong a resemblance to those insects that I have thought it 

 worth while to give a figiu'e of it ; and I have added on the same 

 plate a Tarphius* proper, from each of the three countries in which 



* Fig. 2 is the T. gihbiolus. Germ., from Sicily ; fig. 3 the T. Lotvei, from 

 Madeira ; and fig. 4 the Palman variety of the T. canariensis. As regards the 

 first of these, the Sicilian T. gibbulus, although it has been t\vice drawn already 

 (namely, in the 24th fasciculus of Germar's ' Fauna Ins. Europa?,' and more 

 recently, though less precisely, in the 2nd vol. of M. Duval's excellent ' Genera 

 des Co!. d'Europe'), and although I gave a diagnosis of it, in a foot-note, at 

 p. 132 of my ' Ins. Mad.,' I liave nevertlieless thought it worthy, from the im- 

 portant position wliicli it occupies in having to be accepted as tlie type of the 

 whole genus, of a place in the present paper. I would tlierefore re-characterize 

 it thus : — 



Tarphius gibbulus, 



T. cylindrico-oblongus, piceus, granulis squamisque prwvis fuscesccntibus parce 

 vefltitus cl pilis (nee sctis) longiusculis subercctis ciuoreis parce tcctus ; pro- 



