150 Buacksurn AND SHARP—On some New Species and Genera of Coleoptera. 
CrYPTORHOPALUM. 
Cryptorhopalum brevicorne, n. sp.—Sat convexum, nitidum, parce nigro- 
pubescens, parce subtiliter punctatum, nigrum, antennis pedibusque testaceis. 
Long. 2-35 m.m. 
This species is similar in appearance to C. triste, Lec., but has the legs and 
antenne pale, and in the structure of the antennze and prosternum is quite different, 
so that it is but doubtfully congeneric therewith, although in the present very un- 
satisfactory state of the arrangement of the exotic forms of these obscure Dermes- 
tide I think it best classed in Cryptorhopalum. The antennz are very short and 
are pale yellow, their club is subcircular, larger im the male than in the female, 
and in the former sex is formed nearly entirely by the terminal joint, while in the 
female nearly one-third of it is formed by the penultimate joint. The hind angles 
of the thorax are nearly rectangular but slightly obtuse. The prosternum is more 
rounded and produced in front than it is in C. triste, and the antennal fossze have 
a shining surface, are broad and short, and not very definitely limited. The under 
surface is clothed with a scanty cinereous pubescence, and the pale colour of the 
legs extends even to the coxe. 
Four specimens of this species have been sent me by Mr. Blackburn as Nos. 26 and 213; the 
species is found in the houses at Honolulu. 
D.S. 
Cryptorhopalum terminale, n. sp.—Breviter ovale, convexum parce griseo- 
pubescens, nigrum, elytris in medio et late ad apicem rufis, antennis, tibiis 
tarsisque testaceis. Long. 2$ m.m. 
The female has the antennz very short, with sub-circular two-jointed club, but 
the terminal joint much larger than the other joints; from the third to the club, 
very small and difficult to count. The upper surface is rather sparingly punctate, 
and has a rough but not dense pale pubesence, which does not form bands, except 
that on the dark fasciz of the elytra it is less distinct and darker in colour; the 
hind angles of the thorax are nearly rectangular. The apical one-third or two- 
fifths of the wing cases is red; then in front of this there is across the middle a 
medial black band, and in front of this a red one, the base being black, these three 
basal bands of colour being about of one width. 
I have received three specimens as No, 47; they are, no doubt, females ; although probably a species 
introduced into the islands, it does not agree with any of the descriptions of the numerous New World 
species of this genus recently described by Reitter. 
DFS: 
