196 Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford's 



Scolyto-platypus {Txniocerus) eutomoides, sp. n. 



Mas. Breviter obloDgus, opacus, fusco-ferrugineus, pedibus 

 testaceis, pube quam brevissima flava pruinosus ; fronte ad oculos 

 excavata ; prothorace quadrato, angulis posticis acutis, supra rudi, 

 vermiculato-rugoso ; ita elytris ad basin, sed ab antica tertia parte 

 convexe subglobose declivibus, late subsulcatis, sulcis lineis cari- 

 natis postice obliteratis separatis. Long. 3 mm. 



Male. Short, oblong, quite dull, fusco-ferruginous, covered 

 with extremely short yellow pubescence, imperceptible unless seen 

 sideways. Front impressed and concave to the eyes, with an 

 incised line from the vertex to the middle, the pubescence a little 

 longer round the upper margin but not strong ; antenna with the 

 characters of Tamiocerus, brown-testaqeous, the club infuscate, not 

 very elongate, pubescent, with a few long hairs towards the tip. 

 Prothorax quadrate, broader than long, the lateral emargination of 

 the sides scarcely present, the hind-angles acute, prominent and 

 directed outwards, apical border very obtusely rounded, with no 

 median emargination : surface dull and finely scabrous with an 

 irregular corroded sculpture. Scutellum absent. Elytra a very 

 little wider than the prothorax at its base and scarcely longer, 

 subtruncate at the base, with very finely elevated margins, the 

 shoulders rectangular, but somewhat rounded, the sides exactly 

 parallel, the apex rather obtusely rounded ; surface cylindrical for 

 rather less than the basal third and sculptured like the prothorax, 

 then declivous and convex, the declivity subspherically rounded, 

 its upper half with six very shallow wide rough sulci, separated by 

 fine carinate lines, obsolete behind, the lower half uniformly 

 roughened. Underside concolorous, shortly pubescent, the abdo- 

 men dull and rugulose, with the first two segments completely 

 connate ; anterior flexed surface of the prothorax wide, proster- 

 num with a raised carina crossing the flexed surface and becoming 

 more elevated at the tip, below which the anterior margin is pro- 

 duced forwards, at its extremity are two short obliquely placed 

 lobes, subquadrate, with the outer apical angle rounded and the 

 inner acute. Anterior coxs with a pencil of very long thick 

 yellow hairs ; anterior tibise coarsely scabrous externally, middle 

 and posterior tibias slender ; tarsi slender, elongate, somewhat less 

 so than in S. mikado. 



Hah. Celebes. 



The colour, whicli is perhaps that of a somewhat 

 immature example, and sculpture give the insect a 



