iiimra and Sjnciis oy* ('ideoptcrji. 3!31 



obcordttte yellowish spol un llie vertex, descending,' botwecn tho eyes 

 but not passing beyond them ; antennro nearly tbro(5 times as long as 

 the body in cS y black, the intennediate joints greyish at tho apex; 

 prothorax a.s long as broad, an irroguhir patcli on tlie disk, apparently 

 made up of smaller spots, and oceupying its whole h-ngth, orcaNionally 

 two or three smaller spots at tho side ; scutollum small, trianguhir, 

 black; elytra short, broadly ovate, greyish yellow, with four principal 

 spots on the disk, the shoulder, a few smaller spots at the sides (some- 

 times neiu-ly obsolete), and several at the apt^x black; legs of moderate* 

 length, the anteri(n*but little produced in c5',f«!m()ra and tibiai obscurely 

 ringed with grey, the bjisal and claw-joints of the tarsi ashy, except at 

 the apex ; side of the propectus, metastemum, and abdomen closely 

 covered ^^'ith a yellow pile, a spot on each side of the segments and 

 the middle of the apical one black. Length 9 lines. 



In none of the species described above have the males a spinid 

 propectus. 



DcEOTHENA [Anthribidac]. 



Head small, not contracted below the eyes, rostnmi very short. An- 

 tenna? 12-joiuted; verj^ slender, much longer than the body, arising 

 from a cavity beneath and a little in front of the eye, the first joint 

 swollen at the base, gradually diminishing upwards, and terminated in 

 a truncated apex, the second as long as the first, but slenderer and 

 obconic, the remainder to the eighth inclusive subequal, filiform, their 

 apices more or less tumid, the apical third of the ninth and three ter- 

 minal joints forming an oblong slender club. Eyes large, lateral, deeply 

 emarginate beneath. Antennary cavity gi-ooved above. Epistome and 

 lip forming together a small triangle covering the centre of the man- 

 dibles. Palpi filiform. Prothorax convex, rounded anteriorly, as wide 

 as the elytra at the base, the carina immediately in contact with the 

 base at the middle, but slightly and gradually diverging towards the 

 side, fonning a sharp angle at its flexm*e, then continued to half the 

 length of the prothorax, where it suddenly ceases. Elytra convex, not 

 gibbous at the base. Legs of moderate length, first tarsal joint elongate. 



The insect which has served for the above generic description is 

 exceedingly like Frotcedus moerens, Pasc* On examination, how- 

 ever, they will be found to be not oven gcncrically identical, the 

 twelve-jointed antennae and its club, composed not of three only ]>ut 

 also by part of a fourth joint, being, I believe, unparalleled among the 

 Anthribidae, and the emarginate eye and tho position of the abbre- 

 viated carina being quite different in ProtcEdus. I do not here more 

 than allude to the enormous size of the two intermediate tarsal joints, 

 as it is just possible that that miiy be only a sexual character. The 



* Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3rd series, v. p. 3y. 



