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tlie middle ; its surface is strongly punctured, very closely on 

 the sides, quite sparingly in tlie middle ; tlie lateral margins 

 are creuulate. The scutellum is punctured uniformly with the 

 disc of the prothorax. The elytra are widest considerably be- 

 hind the middle ; they are punctured rather more finely and 

 much more closely than the disc of the prothorax, the distinct- 

 ness of the puncturation being obscured by a great deal of 

 transverse wrinkling ; the system of puncturation is inter- 

 rupted, but the transverse wrinkles only partially so by four 

 very slightly elevated shining costse on each elytra. The 

 pygidium is punctured coarsely and closely, but not deeply, 

 the propygidium only very obscurely. Each puncture on the 

 upper surface is occupied by a small white scale, which in the 

 piunctures about the middle line of the insect scarcely protrudes 

 and from those on the sides protrudes only slightly. The 

 underside femora and tibiae are punctured, the hind coxae and 

 hind body very closely, finely, and shallowly, the rest more 

 strongly and sparsely. The pimcturation of the underside, 

 however, is quite hidden by mingled white and brownish scales, 

 which are very closely packed except on the femora and tibiae. 

 The anterior tibi» are strongly tridentate externally ; the four 

 hinder tibife have no distinct transverse carina, but an external 

 spine on the middle of each of them. The hind tarsi are 

 shorter than their tibiae. The basal joint of the antennae is 

 quite half as long as the rest together. The club consists of 

 three short joints. 



A single specimen has been sent and kindly presented to me 

 by Mr. Eothe, of Sedan. From its elongate apical ventral seg- 

 ment I think it is a male. 



PAFSCHIZUS. 



P. jjalUdtis, mihi. I think it not improbable that this insect 

 (described by me on page 51 of the jDresent vol.) is identical 

 with Anoplostethus opaliiius, Brulle, of which I had not seen 

 the original description at the time I wrote. The genus 

 Anoplostethus is stated by its author to have the claws all 

 simple, except that the larger intermediate claw is very slightly 

 bifid, and M. Lacordaire (Gen. des. Coleopteres, III., p. 373) 

 states that A. opalinus is a very beautiful blue insect. As the 

 insect I had before me is of a very pale yellow-green colour, 

 and had the larger claw on all the tarsi quite strongly bifid, I 

 took it to be certainly distinct from M. Brulle' s species. The 

 description of A. opajinus, however (now before me), agrees so 

 well in general respects with my P. pallidus that I think they 

 are probably founded on the two sexes of the same insect ; as I 

 have seen two specimens of it (one of them quite freshly taken), 

 both agreeing in colour, and being neither blue nor especially 



