28 Mr. C. J. Gahan on new 



Resembles very much E. h'neata, Linn., but has the two 

 longitudinal ridges on the disk of the prothorax more flat- 

 tened and more strongly punctured, and has the elytra strongly 

 enough and rather closely punctured, the punctures being 

 distinctly visible to the naked eye. 



In E. lineata, Linn., the elytra are glossier and almost 

 impunctate, the punctures being distant and so minute as to 

 be scarcely visible except with the aid of a lens. In some 

 specimens of lineata the elytra are very feebly coriaceous. 



Chevrolat seems to have regarded the specific differences 

 here given as sexual; but in this he was evidently mistaken, 

 for the British Museum collection (including that of Chev- 

 rolat) does not contain a single male of either species, unless 

 the view to be referred to further on can be accepted as 

 correct. 



Elateropsis rugosa^ sp. n., ? . 



E. lineatce similis, sed minor ; elytris rugoso-punctatis ; antennis 

 fusco-ferrugineis. 



Hab.—'> 



A single female example represents this species .in the 

 British Museum collection. In form and stjde of marking 

 it resembles the preceding, but is sufficiently distinguished by 

 the strong rugose punctuation of the disk of the prothorax 

 and of the elytra. The antennae are dark ferruginous towards 

 the base, fuscous towards the apex. 



A smaller (male) specimen, of a similar style of sculpture, 

 devoid of pubescent bands or markings and with black 

 antenna, may possibly prove to be the male of this species. 

 It also bears no indication of locality. 



Elateropsis fuliginosa^ Fabr., (^ . 



In the males of this species the elytra are nitid, smooth 

 (excepting a feeble rugosity towards the base), and are 

 remotely and minutely punctulate. 



These remarks also apply to E. suhpunctata, Chevr., and, 

 with the types of the two species before me, I am unable to 

 discover any ditierence between them except one of size. E. 

 suhpunctata must, I think, be regarded as identical with, or 

 at most as a small variety of, fuUginosa, Fabr. It must be 

 remembered that Chevrolat in describing suhpunctata com- 

 pared it, not with the true fuUginosa of Fabr., but with /'///<- 

 ginosa, Chevr. — quite a distinct species, to which may be 



