200 Major T. Broun oji some 



Greymoutli. Found by Mr. Helms. One example in 

 Dr. Sharp^s collection, British Museum. 



Plectomorphus, RafFray. 

 Wvtsman's Geu. lus., PselapLidse, 190S, p. 105. 



3497. Plectumorphns longiceps, sp. n. 



Subdepressedj sliining, sanguineous, antennae and legs 

 paler, palpi and tarsi fulvescent ; pubescence greyish, 

 mingled with long erect hairs. 



Head large, as long as the thorax aud, in line with the 

 moderately prominent eyes, as broad as it is, geuse 

 slightly narrowed towards the rounded hind angles; its 

 surface shining but minutely asperate, the central portion 

 obtusely elevated as far as the eyes, broadly depressed be- 

 tween, and just behind, the elevated antennal tubercles, 

 which are vertical in front ; the well-marked foveae, situated 

 just behind the eyes, are prolonged to the frontal depression. 

 Thorax quite as long as broad, widest and rounded before 

 the middle, more narrowed in front than behind ; its 

 sculpture similar to, but more distant than, that of the head ; 

 mesial channel deep, extending from the apex to the angulate 

 basal depression, this is united to the lateral foveae, which 

 are prolonged as grooves almost to the apex. Elytra sub- 

 quadrate, distinctly narrowed before the middle, of equal 

 length and breadth, with fine indefinite sculpture ; sutural 

 striae broad and deep, not distinctly foveate at the base, 

 intra-lmraeral impressions also broad and deep, indistinctly 

 prolonged to the middle. Hind body nearly as broad as 

 but evidently shorter than the elytra, basal segment slightly 

 longer than the next, with a short median depression in 

 front, these two are horizontal, the others deflexed. 



Antenn(£ elongate, as long as the head and thorax, rather 

 slender, finely pubescent ; basal joint cylindrical, quite twice 

 as long as broad, second fully half the length of the first, 

 oblong, joints 3-6 decreasing in length, more or less longer 

 than broad, eighth very slightly broader than the oviform 

 seventh, ninth rather broader than the eighth, bead-like, 

 but hardly as broad as the subquadrate tenth, the terminal 

 conical, subacuminate, nearly as long as the preceding two 

 combined. 



"When compared with the type of the genus, P. spinifer 

 (2-i76), this is seen to be larger, its head is manifestly longer, 

 more oviform, and with obsolete hind angles, the thorax is 

 longer, the elytra are more narrowed near the base, with 



