2() Mr. T. V. Wollaston on the Coleoptcra of St. Helena. 



be well known (and perhaps even reeorded) for some other 

 tropical country. Yet, as I have been iinablc to identify it 

 Avitli any of the numerous species to which I have had access, 

 I think it better to run the risk of its haviiii^ been already 

 described than to omit it altogether from the ])rcsent catalogue. 

 The main features of this Brnelius seem to consist in its 

 redtlish-bromi hue, the elytra, however, being more pale and 

 rufcscent than the head and prothorax ; in the latter being 

 da})pled with cinereous scales, which are concentrated into a 

 squarish central bipartite patch in the middle (behind the 

 scutellum), aiul sometimes apparently into two obsolete and 

 fragmentary (or broken-up) oblique bands ; in its head being 

 powerfully keeled ; in its elytra being deeply striate (with the 

 interstices convex), and likewise ornamented (in unrubbed 

 specimens) with rudimentary bands or fasciae, on either side, 

 composed, in examples which are highly coloured, of darkish 

 cloudy patches with a few ashy scales between ; in the antennae 

 of the male being very much longer than those of the female, 

 and deej)ly pectinated internally ; and in its two posterior 

 femora being armed beneath witli two small denticles, along- 

 side each other and arising out of the inner and outer edges 

 respectively — whilst the two inner angles of its two hinder 

 tibiaj are each terminated by a spine, one of which (particu- 

 larly in the male sex) is robust and elongated. 



61. Brnchus adrena, n. sp. ? 



B. fere ut species prtecedens, sod paido angustior ac sensim magis 

 ellipticus (pygidio minus perpendiculari), capita minus e\-identer 

 carinato, prothorace sensim profundius punctato, elytris clarius 

 rufescentibus lactiusque pictis, multo magis tcnuiter Icviusque 

 subcrenulato-striatis, interstitiis valde depressis (nee CQnvexis), 

 antennis brcvioribus, femoribusquc posticis omnino simplicibus 

 (nee subtus denticulatis) et spinis terminalibus minus robustis. 



Long. Corp. lin. 1h 



Although with much the same colouring, and /;>v';n« facie 

 aspect, as the last species, it is quite impossible to identify with 

 it the single example from which the above diagnosis has 

 been drawn out — tliough I feel it extremely likely that both 

 of them are natives of the same country (wheresoever that 

 may be), and may perhaps have become naturalized, through 

 the medium of commerce, in the stores and granaries of St. 

 Helena. The specimen before me (which was captured by 

 Mr. ]\Ielli.ss) appears to be a female one, so that I am unable 

 to decide whether there are any particular features (of anten- 

 na <S:c.) to distinguish the opposite sex ; but, judging from 

 this individual, the species is a trifle narrower and more 



