202 Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford's 



antenniB testaceous yellow, the club suborbicular, broader than 

 long, with transverse sutures, the basal joint ample, occupying 

 more than half the surface, corneous on both faces. Prothorax 

 oblong, parallel-sided behind the middle, slightly narrowed in front, 

 broadly and strongly rounded at the apex, hind-angles rounded, the 

 base subbisinuate ; surface feebly elevated before the middle, in 

 front obliquely and not strongly declivous, asperate with fine 

 imbricate rugse, stronger in the male, and with a few fine erect 

 hairs towards the apex, behind cylindrical, slightly impressed on 

 either side about the middle, moderately shining, with fine but 

 evident punctuation, absent over the middle line and a spot on 

 either side, interspaces ( ,$ ) smooth, ( $ ) finely reticulate. Scu- 

 tellum triangular, shining, infuscate. Elytra about as wide as the 

 prothorax and rather more than a third longer, truncate at base, 

 with subrectangular shoulders and parallel sides ; surface cylin- 

 drical, lineato-punctate, the punctures very minute at the base, 

 gradually becoming large and deep towards the declivity, inter- 

 stices flat, shining, remotely and microscopically punctate in single 

 rows, thinly hairy towards the apex, the 2nd and 4th subelevated 

 behind and furnished each on the margin of the declivity with a 

 strong acute tooth ((^), a small pointed tubercle ( $ ); apex (,5') not 

 narrowed, subcircularly excavate, the excavation limited to the 

 posterior fourth, its fuudus concave, shining, very strongly punc- 

 tured, with a raised crenate lateral and inferior margin ; apex ( 9 ) 

 narrowed, retuse, with a deeply punctured impression on each side 

 of the suture, wider below, the sides above callose and bearing 

 the two tubercles, inferior margin well-defined but little raised. 

 Underside concolorous, very scantily pubescent ; prosternum with 

 a distinct antecoxal process ; tibiae very sleuder and weakly- 

 spined. 



Hah. Damma I. (J. J. Walker). 



Two specimens. Widely separated as tWs species is 

 by its minute size from the other members of the genus, 

 it appears in every respect to be a true Tomicus, and the 

 male is not unlike an extremely small and elongate 

 T. erosus, Woll. Though the genus PUyogenes, Bedel, 

 differs from Tomicus in characters dependent merely on 

 degradation and small size, this species cannot well be 

 referred to it. It has a most distinct prosternal process, 

 and its elytral structure is that of the Onthotomicus 

 group. 



