Species of Coleopter a from Rodriguez. 113 



and posterior margins of the thorax reddish. Elytra obscure 

 testaceous, each with the scutellar region, a discoidal spot, a 

 subapical patch, and three or four lateral markings blackish 

 brown. Legs (especially the tibia3) testaceous. The generally 

 decumbent scales which are tolerably thickly scattered over the 

 surface (and on the tibiee) are very pale yellow. Head flat- 

 tened, thickly rugulose. Thorax thickly and rugosely punc- 

 tured, convex, the base on each side oblique. Elytra gently 

 convex, a trifle broader towards the apex, which is not very 

 obtusely' rounded, slightly shining, crenate-striate, the inter- 

 stices scarcely convex, the scales forming rows. 



Less convex than Coxelus jyictus^ and with the elytra less 

 narrowed at the base, &c. &c. 



^SCHYNTELUS, gen. nov. 



Resembles Bothrideres except in the form of the head, which 

 is like that of Deretaphrus Erichsoni. Head bent down- 

 wards, mucli arched, broadest behind the eyes, scarcely nar- 

 rowed and rounded in front ; eyes not prominent, scarcely 

 visible from above. Antennse as long as the head ; the basal 

 joint large, nearly round ; the second the same form but 

 smaller ; the third, seventh, eighth, and ninth a little longer 

 than broad; the fourth, fifth, and sixth nearly as long as 

 broad ; the tenth compressed, cup-shaped ; the eleventh much 

 smaller, transverse, truncate and pubescent at the apex. An- 

 terior coxse very little separated ; anterior tibise denticulate. 

 Intermediate coxse moderately separate. Posterior legs very 

 widely separate. Basal segment of the abdomen rather 

 longer than the two following taken together. 



^schyntelus ater^ sp. n. 



JE. elongatas, ater, dorso depressiuseulus ; capita crebre fortiter 

 punctato, punctis longitudinaliter coufluentibus ; antennis piceis, 

 nitidis ; thorace antice capite fere duplo latiore, latitudine hand 

 longiore, postice angustato, angulis anticis prominulis obtiisi- 

 usculis, lateribus antice leviter rotundatis, dein ad basin recti s, 

 medio tubercido vix perspiciio notatis, basi utrinque levissime 

 sinuata ; supra crebre fortiter punctato, medio foveis duabus 

 ovalibus (altera ante, altera post medium) notato ; scutello parvo 

 quinquelaterali ; elytris thorn ce paulo latioribus, parallelis, ante 

 apicem sohim angustatis, apice truncatis, fortiter pinictato-striatis, 

 interstitiis 2° et 3" planis, 4°, 5°, 6", 7° angustatis costiformibus 

 (plerumque 5" et 7") ; pedibus piceis, tibiis anticis quadridenti- 

 culatis ; corpore subtus sat crebre fortiter punctato. Long. 2-3^ 

 lin., lat. |-1 lin. 



