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matic position at present is in the Pcederini, in the neip;h- 

 bourhood of Lithocharis ; but I have a strong impression 

 that it will ultimately prove to be one of the steps of a 

 transition to the Pinojihilini. 



1. Lindus religans, n. sp. Piceus, niticlus, subparal- 

 lelus, antennis, peclibus, palpisque testaceis, elytris fortiter 

 seriatim punctatis; abdomine parcius pubescente, crebre 

 fortiter, profundeque piinctato. Long. corp. 3 — 3^ lin. 



Antennae reddish, rather shorter than head and thorax ; 

 1st joint elongate, rather longer than 2nd and 3rd together ; 

 3rd joint long, a good deal longer than 2nd, 5 — 10 each 

 a little shorter, but scarcely broader than its predecessor, 

 10th about as long as broad; 11th joint short, with a 

 slender spine or seta at its apex. Head short and broad, 

 slightly narrower than the thorax ; eyes large and promi- 

 nent, separated by a narrow space only from the hind 

 margin, with some coarse punctures at the sides and 

 vertex, which are wanting along the middle. Thorax 

 transverse, a little narrower than the elytra, nearly trun- 

 cate in front, the front angles but little rounded, the base 

 and hind angles rounded, the sides nearly straight and 

 not narrowed behind ; on either side of the middle is an 

 irregular, longitudinal series or patch of rather coarse 

 punctvu^es, and between these and the sides are other 

 scattered, pretty numerous punctures. Scutellum small, 

 impunctate. Elytra longer than the thorax, quadrate, 

 their extremity emarginate, depressed on either side of 

 the finely-elevated suture ; in the depression a series of 

 rather coarse punctures, and outside this with several 

 other series of coarse, deep punctures. Hind body stout ; 

 the basal segment margined at the sides, the others with- 

 out margins, and each slightly narrower at the base than 

 the extremity, very coarsely, closely and deeply punctured ; 

 the 6th and 7th segments more sparingly and more finely 

 than the basal ones ; hind margin of upper plate of 7th 

 segment angulate in the middle, and spinous at each side ; 

 the connecting membranes of the segments coriaceous, as 

 in the Pinophilini. Legs yellow. 



In the male the hind margin of the ventral plate of the 

 6th segment of the hind body is slightly emarginate at the 

 extremity, and is polished and depressed in front of this 

 emargination, and the 7 th segment has a large notch or 

 excision in the same place. 



