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posterior area, and each lias a rather sharp prominence just 

 before the apex. The antennae are exceedingly short and 

 closely articulated, with a tliree-jointed pear-shaped club, 

 of which the first joint is small, the second rather large, and 

 the last very large, forming more than half the club. 



Authrenus glohiger, sp. n. 



notimdus, toto niger, dense punctatus et squamosus, squamis inferis 

 albis, superis nigris, pronoti lateribus, maculisque elytrorum 

 punctiformibus 13 circiter albis ; autennis brevissimis, 8-articu- 

 latis, articulo ultimo magno, hemisphterico. 



Long. 2'5 mm. 



Ilah. India : Calcutta. 



Two specimens in tlie British Museum formed part of the 

 Bowring Collection. One of them is labelled "India" and 

 the other (perhaps wrongly) " China." A specimen in the 

 Calcutta Museum was found by Mr. F. H. Gravely upon 

 the Museum premises. 



The sharply defined black and white scaling is very 

 distinctive, and, judging from the identical aspect of the 

 three specimens before me (taken at an interval of more than 

 half a century), the species is not subject to the extreme 

 variability prevailing in other Antlireni. 



The sides of the pronotum are broadly white, the white 

 scales extending a short distance round the base. Upon the 

 black median area there is a central white spot, two upon the 

 posterior lobe, and several at the front margin. Upon the 

 elytra there is a common white spot just behind the thoracic 

 lobe, and upon each a small anterior spot near the lobe, one 

 behind the shoulder, two at the outer margin behind the 

 middle, and two near the sutural margin behind the middle. 

 The antennse are very short, consisting of eight joints, all 

 but the terminal one transverse, and this circular in shape, 

 with its diameter not quite as long as the foot-stalk, and hemi- 

 spherical in shape, with its convex face beneath and the flat 

 upper surface alone exposed in the retracted position. 



Anthrenus megalops, sp. n. 



Elongatus, flavus, nitidus, squamis breviter triangularibus brunneis, 

 fulvis et albis tectus, pronoti lateribus elytrorumque plagis vagis 

 tribus albis, prima antemediana, aliis postmedianis, antennis 

 9-articulatis, clava biarticulata, articulo ultimo quam tribus 

 praecedeutibus paulo longiori. 



Long. 3'5 mm. 



Ilab. Abyssinia {A. Raffray). 



