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larger intra-humeral impressions, the abdomen is shorter, 

 but the anteiinaj are longer, with a decidedly more elongate 

 basal joint. 



? . Length 2^ ; breadth ^ mm. 



Greymouth (Helms). One from Dr. Sharp's collection in 

 the British Museum. 



3498. Pkctomorphus brevicornis, sp. u. 



Elongate, rather narrow, glossy, with greyish-yellow, 

 depressed and subereot but not very elongate, pubescence; 

 head and thorax sanguineous, abdomen more iuFuscate, elytra 

 fulvo-rufous, legs and antennae of a lighter hue, tarsi and 

 palpi flaveseent. 



Head as broad, in line with the rather large moderately 

 convex eyes, as the middle of the thorax but a good deal 

 shorter than it is, the gense distinctly narrowed behind, with 

 obtuse hind angles ; its narrow central portion is convex 

 and projects as far as the front of the eyes ; the depression 

 between the antennal tubercles is divaricate and extends 

 backwards near each side, becoming gradually broader and 

 deeper near the base, so that the usual fovese are obliterated. 

 At the middle of the base there is a minute angular 

 impression. Thorax scarcely longer than broad, slightly 

 rounded and widest before the middle, only very slightly and 

 gradually narrowed behind, more, and quite obliquely, in 

 front ; central channel deep, extending from near the apex to 

 the base, but hardly any broader behind than at the middle, 

 so that the common basal depression is only marked off l)y 

 the strip uniting it to the large lateral fove^, which are 

 prolonged as grooves to the front. Ebjtra suboblong, athird 

 longer than the thorax, slightly nan-owed near the shoulders, 

 indistinctly punctate; sutural striae deep, foveiform at the 

 base, alongside each there is a basal fovea which is nearly 

 equal in size to the short, foveiform intra-humeral im- 

 pressions. Hind body nearly as long and broad as the elytra, 

 with the basal three segments nearly horizontal and equal. 

 Leys slender, simple. * 



Antennce shorter than the head and thorax, with elongate 

 slender pubescence ; the suboblong (rotundate in one 

 antenna) second joint nearly as long as the basal ; joints 

 3-8 transverse, fifth and seventh only a little larger, the 

 sixth and eighth rather smaller than the other ones, ninth 

 nearly double the size of the eighth and almost as broad as 

 the transverse tenth, the terminal one conical but not acu- 

 minate, hardly the length of the preceding two combined. 



Ann, dj Maj. i\^ Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. xi. 1-i 



