of the SuhfamiJy Dynastiiice. 2r»9 



most tlic value of local ra(;cs. In describing the fullowing 

 new species I have therefore sketched these organs, which 

 provide tho most essential means for their determination. 

 The genus has the closest relationship with the South- 

 African Rhizoplatodes, of which only a single species, It. 

 castaneipennis, Boh., is known. The mentum of that species 

 has a slightly different shape, the male has a curious pit at 

 the back of the head which is not found in Eop/rileurus, and 

 its pygidium is not bent under the body as in the Oiicntal 

 genus. 



Eophihurus cehbensis, sp. n. (PI. XIII. fig. I.) 



Niger, nitidus, glaber, capite rugoso, prothorace postice cum scu- 

 tello parce et minute, antice rugose, punctato ; eiytris tbrtiter 

 sed baud crebre seriato-puuctatis, interstitiis baud perspicuo 

 punctulatis, marginibus exteruis postice Irevibus, parum pimc- 

 tatis ; pygidio apice laevi, medio vix punctato, basi et biteribus 

 fortiter punctatis ; metasterni medio fere lajvi, lateribua rugoso 

 punctatis: 



(£ , fronte breviter cornuto, vertice transverse impresso, impressione 

 laevi ; prothoracis margine antico medio minuto tuberculato, 

 diinidio antico impresso, postice utrinque ieviter elevato, dimidio 

 postico medio lougitudinaliter sulcato. 



Long. 23 mm.; bit. max. ITS mm. 



Ilah. Celebes. 



There is a single male specimen in the British ^luseuni, 

 and I have seen two others in M Rene Oberthiir'.s collection. 

 The species has the closest resemblance to E. planatus, 

 Wied., but differs in the less close puncturation of the elytra, 

 their smooth shining outer margins, the absence of minute 

 punctures in the interstices, and, in the male, by the rugose 

 bead and slii^ht marginal tubercle of the prothorax. Tlie 

 asdeagus of the male, represented in fig. 1, is entirely different 

 from that of E. planatus^ which, as shown by fig. 5, is 

 asymmetrical. 



Eoplileuriisj ivanui, sp. n. (PI. XIII. fig. 2.) 



Niger, nitidus, glaber, capite rugoso, pronoto antice fortiter et 

 rugose, postice sat miuute, punctato ; scutello fere laevi ; eiytris 

 striato-punctatis, interstitiis parce minutissime punctulatis, 

 lateribus postice crebre sat minute punctatis; pygidii medio 

 fortiter punctato, apice lajvi, basi et lateribus rugosis ; metasterni 

 medio minute, lateribus rugose, punctatis : 



cJ , fronte breviter cornuto, vertice transverse impresso, impressione 

 li£vi ; prothorace antiee impresso, margine antico medio minute 

 tuberculato. 



J^ong. 21-24 mm. ; lat. max. IO'5-II mm, 



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