104 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or little-Tcnown 



Rather depressed, dark bro^vn, tonientose ; sides of the protliorax, 

 and a large patch on the disc of the elytra, which, commencing at the 

 base, is contracted in the middle and again expanded behind, and a 

 smaller spot at the apex, greyish -white ; disposition of the tubercles 

 (which are all more or less conical) nearly as in the last; antennae, 

 palpi, and legs dull reddish-brown ; under surface dark brown, covered 

 with nimierous small tubercles, and but slightly pubescent. Length 

 2i lines. 



The few characters which Erichson has given of Rechodes accord 

 perfectly well with the insects described above, except that the last 

 joint of the maxillary palpi is scarcely securiform, although very 

 broad and truncate. Rechodes is closely allied to Ulonotus and En- 

 dophloeus. To the former of these genera, M. Lacordaire refers, and 

 I think correctly, BoUtophagus antarcticus, White ; and I would also 

 refer to it Asida serricoUis, Hope. The genus Pristoderus of the 

 latter author, founded on the Dermestes scaber, Fab., is probably 

 identical with Ulonotus. 



DiSTAPHYLA [Colydiidae]. 



Head small, transverse, scarcely visible from above, slightly dilated below 

 the eyes, with a broad antennary gi'oove beneath. Antennae short, stout, 

 11-jointed, the two basal incrassated, the third longer than the rest, 

 which are very transverse, the last two forming a short compressed 

 club. Eyes large, round. Mandibles bidentate at the apex. Palpi 

 robust, the terminal joint of the maxillary elongate, subcylindric, of 

 the labial obovate; maxillary lobes narrow, ciliated. Labium very 

 small, subcordate, fringed with long cilia. Mentum large, narrowed 

 in front, rounded and dilated at the sides. Prothorax nearly qua- 

 drate, very irregular anteriorly, the margin granidate and setose. 

 Elytra elongate, subcylindrical. Legs short j coxae not contiguous ; 

 tibiae gi-adually enlarging at the extremity, teraiinated by two small 

 spurs, and bordered externally ^dth a row of stiff setae ; tarsi with the 

 three basal joints short, hairy below. Prosternum rounded posteriorly, 

 the mesosternum depressed. 



Judging from the position which Erichson has assigned to his 

 genus Phloeonemus, this must be a near ally, although it cannot be 

 by any means likened to Colohicus. 



JDistaphyla mammillayns. (PI. VIII. fig. 4.) 



D. subcylindrica, picea (vel rufo-brunnea), fortiter pmictata, setosa ; pro- 



thorace antice bigibboso. 

 Hah. Brazil (Rio ; Para). 



Subcylindrical, pitchy-brown (or, in the Rio specimens, reddish- 



