On a new Genus o/Pythidse. 311 



females of the two species are very similar. Tlie female of 

 the new sjDecies differs chiefly in the somewhat narrower 

 front, in the fourth antennal joint being somewhat shorter 

 than the fifth and following joints, and in the perfectly 

 smooth claws *. 



Pupa. — Closely resembles that of E. harnardi ; I can 

 detect no differences. 



Larva. — Kesembles that of E. harnardi in its two- jointed 

 antennae ; its hairy but spineless lateral " pseudopodia," 

 bifid at the tip beneath ; its five-branched gill-tufts ; its four 

 spherical, equal-sized, anal papillae; and in the absence of 

 any distinct knobs bearing the two pairs of long hairs on the 

 anal segment. It differs from both E. bamardi and 

 E. capensis in the extremely numerous siiort, thick, black 

 spines on the dorsal surface. These spines are arranged as 

 follows: — The cephalic segment, behind the horny head- 

 plates, has four more or less regular transverse rows of them, 

 about fifteen in each row ; behind the fourth row is a trans- 

 verse bare area, then a patch of about forty spines, about 

 half of which are in the middle third, the remainder being 

 rather smaller and scattered over the lateral thirds. The five 

 intermediate segments each have about fifty to sixty spines, 

 which, again, are most closely placed on the middle third ; 

 some of these spines are very slightly larger than the others 

 and occupy the same positions as the spines in E. capensis 

 and E. barnat-di. There are about twenty spines on the 

 terminal segment, which is more evenly rounded than in 

 E. bamardi. 



XXXVI. — A new Gemis o/Pythida^ {Goleoptera) from the 

 Falkland Islands. By G. 0. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



POOPHYLAX, gen. nov. 



Head short, broad, inserted into the prothorax to near the 

 eyes and obliquely narrowed before them, broadly truncate 

 in front, and excavate on each side behind the short epistoraa ; 

 eyes small, rounded, convex, laterally projecting; antennaj 

 inserted beneath the cariniform orbits at a little before the 

 eyes ; labrum transverse ; mandibles exposed at the tip, their 



* In my original description of K bamardi 1 only noted the male 

 claws as having spines on the underside. In reality these spines occur 

 in both sexes, though they are more conspicuous in the male. 



21* 



