of new genera and species of Tenebrionidce. 369 
pressed, striated or grooved, the strire miicli broader and 
deeper at sides, more or less interrupted (strongly so at 
sides and at apex) by transverse, elevated lines, which some- 
times cross two or more intervals, at others shorter, and 
somewhat tuberculiform ; intervals convex, punctured, the 
interval marldng off the epipleura narrow, compressed, 
costiform ; sides gradually narrowed from before the middle 
to the apex : epipleural fold faintly rugose-punctate from 
behind the shoulders to the apex, strongly sinuous at the 
lower margin, and — together with the underside, and the 
femora beneath — dark brown ; legs and abdomen finely 
punctured, the former pubescent ; intei'coxal process wide, 
truncate at apex ; prosternal process and mesosternum as 
in A. Fairmairei ; legs moderate, femora above, and tibi» 
dusky reddish-brown, tarsi a little paler ; antennas mode- 
rately stout, gradually thickened outAvardly, joint 3 as long 
as 4 — 5 united ; 11 largest, a little obliquely ovoid, 1, 2. 
and 11 rufescent. 
Long. 3^ lin. ; lat. elytr. If lin. 
5? — Larger and more robust, colour darker, more ob- 
scure, subopaque ; prothorax less distinctly attenuate at 
margins, the edges not distinctly crenulated, the sides more 
or less parallel at the hind angles, the base still more feebly 
trisinuate, the smooth discal spaces more distinct ; the 
elytra are of the same form, but the longitudinal furrows 
are less strongly interrupted, and the sutural interval 
appears a little smoother ; legs darker and more robust. 
Long. 4 to 4^ lin. ; lat. elytr. If to If lin. 
Hah. — New Caledonia. Tliree examples (1^,2?). 
Dystalica* suhpubescens , n. sp. 
Of a similar form, colour, &c. to D. homogenea, Pasc, 
but smaller, the head and prothorax less densely, and not 
nearly so coarsely, rugose-punctate ; the latter also more 
regularly rounded at the sides, the lateral margins finely 
reflexed, but not at all crenate ; the strife of the elytra less 
strongly and less coarsely rugose-punctured, or crenated, 
the intervals a little narrower, and, especially at the sides, 
more sharply convex or careniform. 
In both species the intervals of the elytra are sparsely 
but rather coarsely punctured, and have, at their apex, a 
short row of small, conical, black tubercles ; the entire sur- 
* Pascoe, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., January, 1869, p. 142. 
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