148 THE INSECTS OF QAYNDAH, 



description is consequently very imperfect, bat until specimens 

 can be procured it must suffice. I am far from sure that I am 

 right in putting it with the PinopMlidce, but it is marvellously 

 unlike any genus of the Pcederidce, the only other division of the 

 Brachylytra, which it can be associated with. 



245. — PiNOBius Mastersii. n. sp. 

 Length 6| lines. 

 Head thinly punctured and subnitid, with the front part 

 black and the rest red. Neck red. Thorax not broader than 

 the head, a little longer than the breadth, not narrowed behind, 

 thinly punctured, and red with black base. Elytra thinly punc- 

 tured, and black, with a large blood red spot in the centre of each 

 elytron. Abdomen broader than the elytra, and finely punctured, 

 with the two apical segments black, the rest red. The tarsi and 

 two terminal joints of the antennae are reddish. 



Sub-family SiENiDiE. 



246. — Stenus maculatds. n. sp. 



Length 3 lines. 

 Black, roughly punctured. The thorax has the median line 

 deeply marked. On each elytron there is a large golden yellow 

 spot, nearer to the side than to the suture, and nearer to the base 

 than to the apex. The legs are red with the knees black. 



247. — Stenus Gatndahensis. n. sp. 



Length 2 lines. 

 Black, strongly punctured. Head with a short raised smooth 

 line on the middle and a longer one on each side between the eyes. 

 Thorax nearly cylindrical, with a smooth raised central line. 

 Legs yellow, with the knees brown. 



248. — Stenus olivaceus. n. sp. 

 Length 2 lines. 

 This species differs from the last in having the head much 



