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yellow, finely punctate and very sparingly pilose. Pygidium 

 large. Legs piceous brown, with the external angle of the fore 

 tibiae prolonged to half the length of the tarsi, and without 

 external teeth. 



380. — LiPARETRUS PARVULUS. n. Sp. 



Length 1| lines. 



This insect only diflPers from the last in being smaller, in 

 having the pygidium and under side of body black, and in 

 having a narrow lateral black margin on the elytra. Both 

 species have the same peculiarly formed fore tibiae, more like 

 those of the genus Diphucephala than of Liparetrus. 



381. — SCITALA SDTURALIS. n. sp. 



Length 6 lines. 



Head and thorax black, finely punctate, the latter pruinose in 

 the centre, and reddish on the sides. Elytra pale testaceous 

 with the suture black, subnitid, slightly silky and punctate, with 

 a sutural and lateral stria, and four geminate stride on each elytron. 

 Under side of body and legs piceous red, nitid and finely 

 punctate. 



This species is not unlike the S. pruinosa of Dalman. The 

 puncturation throughout however is much finer, and on the 

 thorax less dense, and the elytra though slightly silky are without 

 the opaque velvety texture of pruinosa. 



382. — SciTALA armaticeps. n. sp. 

 Length 5| lines. 



Head and thorax piceous brown, finely and densely punctate ; 

 the former with a strong transverse ridge on the clypeus ; the 

 latter short, and reddish at the sides. Elytra testaceous with 

 the suture brown, nitid, and punctate with a sutural and lateral 

 stria and four geminate strife on each elytron. Pygidium, under 

 side of body and legs, pale red, nitid and finely punctate. 



