118 Mr. C. 0. Waterliouse on new 



fortiter punctato, margine antico leviter arciiato, supra caput vix 

 superante, angulis anticis omnino rotundatis, lateribus leviter 

 arcuatis, reflexo-marginatis, angulis posticis obtuse rotundatis, 

 basi marginata ; elytris thorace vix latioribus, at 2^ longioribus, 

 eonvexis, ad apicera arcuatim attenuatis, sat crebre fortiter punc- 

 tatis ; antennis pedibusque piceis, tarsis testaceis. Long. 1-^ lin., 

 lat. ^ lin. 



This species has the eljtra rather unusually narrowed at 

 the apex ; the punctuation is very distinct, thick but not 

 crowded ; in the middle of the forehead there is a small, almost 

 imperceptible fovea ; the elytra are covered with a slightly 

 metallic bloom. 



Cis sexcarinatuSj sp. n. 



C. oblongus, ater, vix nitidus, fortiter confertim rugoso-punctatus ; 

 capite piceo ; antennis testaceis, clava picea ; thorace longitudino 

 \ latiore, lateribus fere parallelis (vix arciiatis), angulis obtusis, 

 basi bisinuata ; scutello laevi ; elj'tris basi thorace hand latioribus 

 at duplo longioribus, lateribus fere rectis ad apicera obtuse rotun- 

 datis, sutura parum elevata, singulo elytro ad apicem carinis tribus 

 instructo ; corpore subtus baud crebre fortiter punctato : pedibus 

 picei-^. Long, fi mill., lat. ;2. mill. 



Heteromera. 

 Cistelida9. 



Cistela hrunnea, sp. n. 



C. oblongo-ovalis, parura convexa, sat nitida, brunnea, breviter 

 aureo-pubescens ; capite triangular!, crebre distincte pxinctato ; 

 antennis thorace duplo longioribus ; thorace obscuriore, longitu- 

 dine fere duplo latiore, antice arcuatim parum angustato, confertim 

 fortiter punctato, angulis anticis omnino rotundatis, posticis rectis, 

 basi recto-truncata, medio solum vix lobata ; elytris thorace vix 

 latioribus at Sg longioribus, ad apicem arcuatim attenuatis, ii-re- 

 gulariter crebre punctatis. Long. 4 lin., lat. 1|- lin. 



K.HYNCHOPHORA. 



Anthribidse. 

 Balanodes, gen. nov. 



Head as long as broad; rostrum a trifle narrower, very short. 

 Antennae placed close to the eye, a little longer than the head 

 and thorax together, very slender ; the first and second joints 

 scarcely stouter than the following ; third to seventh a trifle 

 longer than the second, subequal, .the eighth rather shorter 



