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inwardly ; antenne 10-jointed, the sixth joint is dilated and cup- 
shape, the seventh is compressed and fits closely against the first 
joint of the club, which is somewhat bristly, not as long as the whole 
pedicel; head and prothorax as in Hypopholis, but with the basal 
part of the latter densely hairy above the scutellum; scutellum 
cordate, broader than long; elytra slightly broader than the 
prothorax, and sub-angular at the shoulders, sinuate laterally before 
the middle and moderately ampliated thence towards the posterior 
part, but much less rounded there than in Hypopholis, depressed 
and plainly callose in the posterior declivity, covering the greatest 
part of the propygidium, non-costate but with the suture plainly 
raised ; pygidium sub-yvertical, somewhat broadly arcuate ; abdominal 
segments soldered, and clothed, like the pygidial part, with short, 
appressed hairs which are denser and longer on the pectus ; meso- 
sternum simple; tarsi moderately long, anterior tibiz bi-dentate 
outwardly, and without an inner spur, teeth of claws long, mode- 
rately arcuate, angular at the base, and having at a short distance 
from the base a sub-vertical, slightly hamate tooth under each claw. 
Plainly allied to Hypopholis, but differing mainly by the structure 
of the claws and the simple mesosternum. The genital armature is 
also of a different type altogether. 
PEGYLIDIUS MASHUNUS, N. spec., 
Plate XLIIL., fig. 37. 
Reddish-brown, with a faint bronze sheen forming on the elytra 
faint, irregular macules of that hue, antenne and palpi flavescent, 
under-side chestnut-brown; clypeus semicircular, divided from the 
head by a plain, transverse impressed line, both head and prothorax 
very finely punctulate and with a minute hair in each puncture ; 
prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, hardly attenuated laterally 
from the median part to the sharp basal angle, but strongly narrowed 
from the middle to the sharp apical angle, anterior part straight in 
the middle, basal one strongly bisinuate and densely hairy above the 
scutellum, decidedly convex in the central part, and with the outer 
sides slightly depressed, not deeply punctured, the punctures divided 
by finely aciculate intervals wider than their own diameter; scu- 
tellum cordate, broader than long, aciculate and punctate; elytra 
deeply punctured and with the intervals equal in diameter to the 
punctures themselves, but slightly raised and plainly aciculate, each 
puncture bears a minute greyish hair, and there is no trace of costule, 
the humeral callosity is hardly visible, but the posterior one is con- 
spicuous; propygidium and pygidium clothed with greyish, fine 
