220 Dr. Malcolm Cameron on 



76. Gyrophaena (Phaenogyra) metallica, n. sp. 



Black, shining, thorax often pitcliy, tlic liead, thorax and elytra 

 with copper-bronze metallic reflex; base of the abdomen more or 

 less reddish; first three joints of the antemiae and legs yellow- 

 testaceous. Thorax irregularly punctured on the disc. Length 

 1-5 to 1-75 mm. 



Readily distinguished by the metallic reflex of the fore-parts. 

 Head but slightly transverse with three or four punctures on either 

 side of the disc. Antemiae with the 1st and 2nd joints stout and 

 of about equal length, the 3rd much shorter and smaller, the 4th 

 very small, transverse, the 5th much larger, slightly transverse, the 

 6th to tlie 10th slightly transverse, the 11th oval, pointed. Thorax 

 about half as broad again as long, the sides but slightly rounded; 

 puncturation irregular in size, sparing and limited to the disc, the 

 sides being impunctate, often a larger puncture is visible on either 

 side of the middle before the base. Elytra a little longer and broader 

 than the thorax, very finely and very sparingly punctured. Abdo- 

 men practically impunctate. 



(J. Seventh dorsal segment with an obsolete tubercle on either 

 side of the middle line in front of the posterior margin. Eighth 

 dorsal segment with a rather slender slightly incurved spine on either 

 side, the border between these with two minute teeth separated by 

 a feeble emargination, and much nearer the lateral spines than to 

 each other. 



Hah. Biikit Timali, in fungus. 



SxERNOTRorA, n. gen. 



Mandililes short and stout, the right with a small blunt tooth in 

 the middle of the inner margin. Tongue divided almost to the 

 base into two narrow-pointed lobes which extend to the level of the 

 extremity of the 1st joint of the labial palpi. Labial palpi 2-jointed, 

 the 1st stout, moderately long, the 2nd much narrower but quite 

 as long as the 1st, cylindrical with rounded apex. Maxillary palpi 

 4-jointed, the 1st joint short, the 2nd moderately long, a Httle 

 thickened towards the apex, the 3rd longer than the 2nd, the 4th 

 slender, subulate, more than half as long as the 3rd. Prosternum 

 without intercoxal process. Mesosternal process moderately broad, 

 finely keeled, the intermediate coxae distant. Tarsal formula 

 4, 4, .O. The 1st and 2nd pairs with the first three joints short, 

 subequal, the 4th as long as the three preceding together; the 

 3rd pair much as in the preceding, and with the last joint equal to 



