BY W. MAGLEAY, ESQ., F.L.S. Ifil 



288, — Cakpophilus aterrimus. n. sp. 

 Length 1-| lines. 

 Black, opaque, thickly punctate and clothed with short dark 

 pile. Head slightly narrowed behind the eyes. Thorax trans- 

 verse, emarginate in front, broader behind than at the apex, and 

 rounded at the base. Scutellum large, rounded on the sides and 

 pointed at the apex. Elytra of the width of the base of the 

 thorax, slightly widened behind the humeral angles, and becom- 

 ing narrowed again towards the apex, which is obliquely trun- 

 cated, each elytron being cut obliquely from the hinder angle up 

 towards the suture. The legs are brown with the tarsi pale red. 



289. — Pria rubicunda. n. sp. 

 Length ^ a line. 



Entirely of a pale red colour, and punctate. Head small. 

 Thorax broad, flat, emarginate in front, broadly rounded at the 

 anterior angles and on the sides, and truncate at the base, with 

 a large triangular impression on the middle of the disc. Scu- 

 tellum large, broad, and rounded. Elytra flat, of the same width 

 as the thorax at the base, parallel-sided, rounded at the apex, 

 and nearly covering the entire abdomen. 



This very minute insect differs from P. dulcamara Illig. the 

 type of the genus in being very flat, in addition to the differences 

 in coloration, marking, and general form. I do not know, how- 

 ever, of any genus of the NitiduUdce to which it makes a 

 nearer approach, and I am unable from the scarcity of specimens, 

 to make in this, as in many other instances, an examination 

 sufficiently minute to enable me to determine positively the exact 

 characters. 



290. — SORONIA VARIEGATA. n. sp. 



Length 2 1 lines. 

 Brown, opaque, strongly punctate, with each puncture fur- 

 nished with a short semi- decumbent seta, the setae for the most 

 part yellow. Head considerably withdrawn into the thorax. 

 Thorax transverse, deeply emarginate in front, prominent at the 



