24 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on the Coleoptera of St. Helena. 



elevatis, ante apicem obsolete subfasciatis ; antennis pedibusque 

 nigro-piceis, illis ad basin rufo-ferrugineis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 1^. 



The apparently somewhat larger size (judging from the 

 single example now before me) of this little Homoeodera^ added 

 to its slightly darker and more opaque and roughened head 

 and prothorax (which seem to be free from even an obscure 

 brassy tinge, and are rather more substngulose perhaps, or 

 even granulous, than punctate), its more rounded and coarsely 

 sculptm-ed elytra (the punctures and strias of which are exceed- 

 ingly large, with the interstices roughened and elevated, or 

 subcostate), and its appreciably blacker limbs, will sufficiently 

 distinguish it from both of the following species. The ex- 

 ample from which my diagnosis has been drawn out was 

 taken in St. Helena by Mr. Melliss. 



58. Homoeodera ahdaceicolUs, n. sp. 



H. siiboblonga, subseneo-nigra, pube grossa demissa fulvescente parce 

 nebnlosa; capita prothoraceque argute, regulariter, et obtuse 

 alutaceis (necnon, ociilo fortissimo armato, punctis levissimis 

 obsoletis remotis parcissime irroratis), subopacis ; elj-tris ovalibus, 

 nitidioribus, argute striato-panctatis, ante apicem plerumque ob- 

 Bolete subfasciatis ; antennis pedibusque aut piceis aut testaceo- 

 piceis, ilhs ad basin rufo-ferrugineis, articulis intermcdiis sensim 

 brevioribus. 



Long. corp. lin. 1-1^. 



The present species and the following one are rather more 

 oblong than the H. rotundiinnnis^ their elytra being relatively 

 a triile longer and less rounded; but in point of mere size 

 (although apparently there is not much difference between 

 them) they would seem to follow each other in a regular se- 

 quence. In other respects the H. alutaceicollis may be known 

 by its head and prothorax being conspicuously (but not 

 roughly) alutaceous, which makes the surface subopaque 

 without being at all roughened, and gives to it, when viewed 

 beneath the microscope, the texture somewhat of seal-skin ; 

 and by its elytra being sharply striate-punctate, but rather 

 less coarsely (and i-oughly) so than is the case in either of its 

 allies. Several examples of it are amongst the St.-Helena 

 collection of Mr. Melliss. • 



59. Homcsodera pygmaa, n. sp. 



S. suboblonga, subseneo- vel subviridi-nigra, i)arum nitida, pube 

 grossa demissa fulvescente parce nebulosa ; capite prothoraceque 

 rugiilose alutaceis punctisque magnis sed vix profundis dense 



