Coleoptera from the Hawaiian Islands. 509 
Antenne dusky yellow, rather short. Head not very 
broad, rather closely and coarsely punctate. Thorax 
strongly transverse, transversely convex, the front mar- 
gin straight, the sides regularly rounded, the base slightly 
broader than the front margin, the hind angles obtuse, 
the surface very brassy, coarsely and closely punctured, 
with a fine but distinct pubescence of a pale golden 
colour. Elytra elongate, but leaving exposed two and a 
half segments of the hind body, bearing distinct though 
fine series of punctures, and with the interstices in- 
distinctly punctured, but more distinctly pubescent. 
Dorsal plates of hind body coarsely and closely punctate. 
Legs sordid yellow, the tarsi darker. 
The specimen described is a male, and has the hind 
margin of the last dorsal plate rather deeply notched, 
and leaving a supplementary segment exposed. 
The species is allied to B. tinctus, but the head is not 
so broad, and not so truncate behind the eyes, the thorax 
is shorter and the puncturation coarser, the pubescence 
more conspicuous, and the notch at the apex of the last 
dorsal plate deeper. 
Found on flowers at an elevation of about 7000 feet 
on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. 
Brachypeplus affinis, n. 8. 
Vix latus, parum elongatus et depressus, subnitidus, 
tenuiter pubescens, testaceus, plus minusve infuscatus, 
capite prothorace elytrisque metallico-tinctis ; prothorace 
transverso, fortiter punctato, lateribus rotundatis, an- 
gulis posterioribus rotundato-obtusis ; elytris seriatim 
subtiliter punctatis. Long. 34, lat. 1; mm. 
Thorax rather strongly transverse, the sides much 
rounded, not in the least sinuate near the hind angles, 
which are not only obtuse, but indefinite, owing to 
being slightly rounded; the surface rather coarsely 
punctate. Hlytra with distinct series of fine punc- 
tures, the interstices very obscurely punctulate. Dorsal 
seements of hind body moderately closely and coarsely 
punctured. 
In the male the apex of the last dorsal plate is broad, 
but is only very slight emarginate, and its angles are 
excessively obtuse, and somewhat thickened, but very 
little prominent. 
