l'J6 Dr. G. A. K. Marshall on new 



the Fijian Physarchus, Pasc, except that the shoulders of 

 the elytra are much less prominent. But both these genera 

 differ, inter alia, in the absence of the inner apical mucro 

 on the tibise, and in having the front coxae contiguous and 

 the iiiud pair much closer together than the middle pair. 



Teluropus ballardi, sp. n. 



cJ . Dark red-brown, fairly closely clothed with short, 

 curved, golden-brown setse. 



Head rugosely punctured throughout, the forehead almost 

 as broad as the base of the rostrum, transversely flattened 

 and with a centr;il fovea; the eyes almost circular, their 

 greatest depth at about one-fourth from the hind margin. 

 Rostrum stout, parallel-sided, and porrect from the base to a 

 little beyond the middle, thence slightly widened and curved 

 downwards, somewhat flattened lr)ngitudinally at the sides in 

 the basal half, and rugosely punctured throughout right up 

 to the apex. Antenncs short ; the scape stout, slightly com- 

 pressed, strongly clavate, and coarsely punctate ; the funicle 

 with joint 1 rather longer than 2, and joints 2 to 7 of about 

 equal width and widening regularly outwards, 7 being closely 

 fitted to the club, which has three distinct joints. Pruthoraos 

 broader than long, broadest near the base and rapidly 

 narrowing in front, with a broad apical constrictiori, the 

 anterior margin straight, the base with a large median lobe, 

 whicli is emarginateat its apex; the upper surface convex^ 

 coarsely and coufluently punctate throughout, and with two 

 low broad elevations in the middle of the disk : these merge 

 and .slope gradually away behind, but in front they are 

 abruptly narrowed where they cross the apical constriction 

 and enclose a large rounded depression between them ; 

 below these prominences on each side is another much lower 

 rounded elevation. Elytra together nearly as broad as long, 

 parallel-sided from the shoulders to beyond the middle, and 

 very broadly rounded behind ; each elytron strongly lobate 

 at the base, the greatest depth of the lobe being at the third 

 interval, which bears a slight basal callus ; the juxta-basal 

 area slopes steeply forwards from a transverse postbasal 

 ridge, which bears a rounded prominence on intervals 3 and 

 5 ; a little behind this is a short costate elevation on in- 

 terval 3 and a less distinct one on 5 ; thestriseare deep and 

 strongly punctate and the intervals are rugose, the alternate 

 ones being slightly more convex. Leys rugosely punctate, 

 the femora with scattered granules, set with curved suberect 



