114 Mr. David Sharp on the 



rufescens, abdomine piceo; eljtris obscure sanguineis, 

 evideuter punctatis. Long. 1 lin. 



Allied to tlie European B. venustus, jet very distinct 

 therefrom ; it may be at once distinguished from it by the 

 evident characters of its narrower form, darker colour, 

 and distinctly punctured elytra. Antenna reddish, slender, 

 but with the basal joint very stout : 2nd joint short, joints 

 3 — 8 slender, not differing greatly fi'om one another, the 

 5th joint the most slender, longer than broad ; 9th joint 

 distinctly but not abruptly broader than 8th, 1 0th inter- 

 mediate in width between 9tli and 11th; 1 1 th joint pomted, 

 a little sinuate on the upper portion of the inner side, 

 rather longer than the two preceding together. Head 

 with two -well-marked convergent furrows on the vertex, 

 the part enclosed by these distinctly raised; the sides out- 

 side them much raised, especially in the front over the 

 insertion of the anteunjB. Eyes moderately large. Thorax 

 much narrower than the elytra, rather longer than broad, 

 rounded at the sides and narrowed behind, with a deeji 

 cliannel on the disc, a fine impressed line on each side, and 

 between this and the central cliannel with a distinct raised 

 line on each side, and with an angulated transverse impres- 

 sion in front of the base. Elytra red, longer than the thorax, 

 distinctly but rather distantly punctiu'cd, each with a fine 

 sutural stria, and a well-marked humeral impression, this 

 being bounded on the inner side by a fine short plica. The 

 first dorsal segment of hind body as long as the two follow- 

 ing together. The femora distinctly swollen in the middle, 

 the hind tibia; with a short but distinct apical spine. 



A single specimen without locality. Notwithstanding 

 its slender and slightly-clubbed antennfe, I am inclined to 

 fancy it is a male. 



11. Batrisus oDiatus, n.sp. Eufescens, evidenter pubes- 

 cens, antennis sat validis, vertice impunctato subtiHter 

 carinato, tuberculis antennalibus valde elevatis, punctatis, 

 fi'onte medio depressiusculo ; elytris fere irapunctatis; 

 tibiis posticis calcari apicali longo. Long. 1 hn. 



]\Ias, antennis articnlo basali elongato, angulo intemo 

 in lamina ]u'oducto, clypeo antice medio elevatione lata ; 

 metasterno late impresso, abdomine segmento apicali ven- 

 tral i basi bituberculato. 



Fern., antennis articulo basali breviore, simplice ; clypeo 

 mutico, metasterno apice medio foveolato, abdomine seg- 

 mento apicali, basi impresso. 



