252 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on certain Coleoptera 



bien precis, et qui me parait devoir etre place dans le voisinage 

 des PeltoideSy Casteln. {Oopiestus, Chevrol.)/* 



29. Xenogloeus politus, n. sp. 



X. rufo-brunneus, politus ; capite subrugose punctato, oculis antice 

 nigris ; protborace convexo, leviter sat parce punctulato, ad latera 

 marginato et vix rotundato ; elytris profande (prsesertim postice 

 et ad latera) crenato-striatis, interstitiis minutissime remote punc- 

 tulatis, antice iu disco latis depressis, postice necnon ad utrumque 

 latus angustioribus magis elevatis ; antennis pedibusque vix pal- 

 lidioribus. 



Long. corp. lin. 2|. 



A single example of tbis curious insect bas been communi- 

 cated to me lately by tbe Rev. Hamlet Clai-lc, bat without any 

 note as to its capture. Whether, therefore, it was taken by 

 himself, during his day's sojourn at St. Vincent in December 

 1856, or by ]\Ir. Gray, I am unable to ascertain. 



Fam. Cantharida. 



Genus Cantharis. 



GeofFroy, Hist, des Ins. i. 339 (1764). 



30. Cantharis Fryii, n. sp. 



C. omnino cyanea, antennis tibiis tarsisque paulo obscurioribus et 

 nigro-pubescentibus, supra fere calva ; capite protboraceque (prse- 

 sertim hoc) nitidis, illo confertim punctato, hoc profunde scd parce 

 punctato, antice attenuato, postice profunde canaliculato ; elytris 

 sul)opacis, confertissime ruguloso-granulatis, apice singulatini ro- 

 tundatis. 

 Long. corp. lin. &h- 



I had at first imagined that the present Cantharis might pos- 

 sibly be identical with Erichson's Lytta chalybea, included in his 

 paper on the (supposed) Coleoptera of Angola ; but, on closer 

 inspection, it has a number of characters in which it apparently 

 differs from that species. Thus, Erichson describes the L. cha- 

 lybea as clothed with a dark pubescence above (whereas the C 

 Fryii is almost bald, and, moreover, the little pubescence which 

 is just traceable on the elytra is fulvescent), and as having its 

 elytra and abdomen alone cyaneous (the rest of the insect being- 

 black), whilst the St. Vincent species is cyaneous altogether, the 

 antennae, tibire, and tarsi being alone a little obscurer, and beset 

 with a short, darker pile. The prothorax, also, is stated to be 

 thickly punctured and obscurely channeled, whereas in the C. 

 Fryii it is very deeply channeled, and with its punctures large 

 and remote. Moreover, in the Cape de Verde insect the elytra 

 can scarcely be called " v\\^\\\o^o-punctata," but rather, ruguloso- 

 (jranulata (there being hardly any indication of punctures). A 



