514 Mr. BPSharp on some new 
Elytra a good deal longer than the thorax, with distinct 
strie, which are very indistinctly punctured ; the inter- 
stices are slightly convex, their whole surface is densely 
but indistinctly punctured and finely pubescent ; they are 
ornamented with some pale red or yellow spots, one at 
the humeral angle, one between this and the scutellum ; 
the humeral mark extends backwards along the side, and 
near the middle is connected with a spot placed inter- 
nally to itself; near the hind margin are two other 
spots; all these spots are more or less elongate in the 
longitudinal direction. The exposed dorsal segments 
are rather closely punctured. The legs are yellow, the 
base of the femora infuseate, and the tibize more or less 
fuscous along their margins. 
The sexual characters are not conspicuous, but the 
male has the last ventral plate shorter than in the 
female, and so leaving exposed beneath a short supple- 
mentary segment. 
Found near Honolulu among the sap exuding from a 
Koa tree. 
Brachypeplus sordidus, n. 8. 
Robustus, sat latus, parum elongatus et depressus, 
opacus, parum dense sed conspicue pubescens, fuscus, 
antennis rufis, pedibus fusco-testaceis ; prothorace for- 
titer transverso, obsolete punctato, dorso tri- vel quadri- 
impresso ; elytris vix striatis, parum distincte punctatis. 
Long. 5, lat. 2 mm. 
Head rather small, somewhat coarsely but indistinctly 
punctured. Thorax strongly transverse, slightly emargi- 
nate in front, the sides a good deal more rounded in 
front than behind, the hind angles nearly rectangular ; 
the surface quite dull, with a coarse but quite obsolete 
puncturation, and with a scanty but very distinct pale 
yellow pubescence, on the disc behind the middle with 
two distinct impressions, and in front of these with a 
third larger but more indistinct impression that is in- 
distinctly divided into two. Elytra very dull, and rather 
uneven, but without distinct striation or puncturation, and 
with a scanty irregular pubescence. Hind body rather 
coarsely but not deeply punctured. 
I have before me only a single female individual, in 
very decayed condition, of this species ; it belongs to the 
B. robustus group, but is less depressed than other 
