Species of Coleoptera from Rodrig uez. Ill 



culo primo magno, elongato ; thorace capite | latiore, longitudine 

 fere duplo latiore, leviter convexo, antice vix angustato, angiilis 

 anticis obtusis, lateribus levissime arcuatis, marginatis, angulia 

 posticis rectis, basi fere recta ; scutello sat magno ; elytris thorace 

 vix angustioribus, at ^ longioribus, apicem versus pax'um angus- 

 tatis, lateribus levissime arcuatis, marginatis, apicibus arcuatim 

 truncatis. Long. 1| Hn., lat. | lin. 



Epurcea ophthalmicaj sp. n. 



E. oblonga, obscure ferruginea, opaca, dense pubescens ; capite lato, 

 transverse, ante oculos angustato, subtilissime coriaceo, sat crebre 

 distincte punctato ; labro transverse, lateribus rotundatis, antice 

 medio anguste profunda triangulariter excise ; oculis magnis 

 prominentibus, nigris ; antennis capite paululo longioribus, 

 clava picea ; thorace capite g latiore, longitudine i- latiore, leviter 

 convexo, antice vix angustato, coriaceo, sat crebre evidenter 

 punctato, margine antico leviter emarginato, angulis anticis obtuse 

 rotundatis, lateribus tenuiter marginatis, levissime arcuatis, angulis 

 posticis fere rectis (summo ipso obtuso) ; elytris thorace baud 

 angustioribus, vix duplo longioribus, medio vix ampliatis, coriaceis, 

 minus crebre evidenter punctatis, apice truncatis, angulis exter- 

 nis paulo rotundatis ; abdomine supra subtiliter baud crebre 

 punctulato, brevissime flavo-pubescente. Long, l^lin., lat. | lin. 



The ejes in this species are rather unusually prominent ; 

 and t]iere is not the usual impressed line along the inner mar- 

 gin. The thorax is broadest at the posterior angles, which are 

 rectangles with the extreme point blunted. 



Colydiidae. 



AscOMMA, gen. nov. 



General build of Endophlaeus^ but with the head not widened 

 in front of the eyes. Eyes partly clothed with erect scale-like 

 setse. Mentum square ; ligula very nearly as broad as the 

 mentum and about half the length, sides parallel, front margin 

 gently arcuate, the angles consequently slightly obtuse ; the 

 front margin fringed with dense stiff hair, so dense that it 

 has the appearance of a piece separate from the ligula; the 

 labial palpi are well separated from each other at the base ; 

 the apical joint is elongate, slightly acuminate at the apex, a 

 little swollen at the base. The outer lobe of the maxillte 

 rather widened and truncate at the apex ; the palpi are short 

 and thick and do not differ materially from those of Endo- 

 phlceus. Antenna eleven-jointed, the third joint rather elon- 

 gate ; the tenth and eleventh joints form a distinct broadly 

 ovate club. 



