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setose. Head slightly bisinnate at the sides, and emarginate in 

 the middle. Thorax rough, bifoveate near the sides and pro- 

 foundly emarginate before the posterior angles. Elytra with 

 the punctures less elongate and less sharply defined than in 

 M. ohscurus, and with elevations at the base, which extend in the 

 form of obsolete costee almost to the apex. Pygidium deeply 

 emarginate. Body beneath subnitid. 



370. — Mj;chidius parvdlus. n. sp. 



Length 3 lines. 

 Piceous brown, subnitid, densely variolous-punctate and setose. 

 Head bisinuate and reflesed at the sides, and deeply emarginate 

 in the middle. Thorax narrowed and rounded towards the 

 posterior angles which are sharp. Elytra closely covered with 

 regular rows of roundish variolous punctures, each with a decum- 

 bent yellow seta the length of itself, and a stria between every 

 two rows of punctures. 



371. LlPARETRTJS FULVOHIRTUS. n. sp. 



Length 4 lines. 

 Head and thorax black, densely punctate, and closely covered 

 with erect soft pale red hairs ; the latter with the punctures 

 coarser than those of the head, and with the median line visible. 

 Elytra red, except on the basal margin, separately rounded and 

 somewhat dehiscent at the apex, thinly clothed with erect hairs, 

 and coarsely and irregularly punctate, with the three geminate 

 stri88 rather indistinct. Pygidium and abdominal segments black, 

 punctate and thinly clothed with long light coloured hairs. The 

 under side of the thorax densely clothed with hairs of the same 

 pallid hue. Legs red. 



372. — LiPARETEUS SERICEUS. n. Sp. 



Length 3| lines. 

 Head and thorax black, pruinose, very finely punctate. Elytra 

 dark red with the base and lateral margin black, broadly rounded 

 or almost obliquely truncate at the apex, and irregularly punctate. 



