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XX. Descriptions of new species 0/ Endomycici. 

 By Kev. H. S. Gorham. 



[Read Gth July, 187-1.] 



The descriptions Avhich I have the honour of lapng before 

 the Society to-night of Endomycid Coleoptera are supple- 

 mentary to my Catalogue — " Endomycici recitati." 

 For though some of them were known to me at the time 

 of its publication, I had not then sufficient information to 

 warrant my describing them. I have been able to add a 

 few new species which have come into my possession from 

 the soiu'ces referred to in the descriptions, bringing the 

 number now to be added to fifteen, some being fine species 

 abundantly distinct from any known, while five pertain to 

 the difficult genus Stenotarsus, which will soon increase in 

 bulk as tropical collections are searched for species. Of 

 this genus, the species from the three tropical continents, — 

 South America, Africa, Asia — have each a distinctive 

 type; but constant generic characters are wanting by 

 which the genus could as yet be subdivided. On the 

 whole, the African species are the best defined, while the 

 South American are the most uniform. The Asiatic 

 species are genei-ally to be recognized by the punctured 

 stride of the elytra and frequently variegated colour, Avhile 

 the only one I have seen from the far East, Japan, is rather 

 of the American type. 



Group ENDOMYCICI. 



Earn. EUMORPIIID^E. 



Genus EuMORPHUS, Weber. 



Eumorj)hus Murrayi, n. sp. 



Oblongo-ovatus, niger, nitidus, fere glabratus ; elytris 

 subviolaceis, convexis, maculis duabus transversis testaceis ; 

 femoribus clavatis, apice dilute castaneis. Long. hn. 



Mas tibiis anticis medio dente magno distantc, tibua 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1874.— PART lY. (oEC.) 



