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most deeply punctate towards the sides, which are slightly re- 

 flexed in front and a little turned down behind. Scutellum less 

 deeply punctate than the thorax, rounded at the apex. Elytra 

 flat on the disk, with the sides nearly vertical, crenate-striate, 

 the crenations caused by apparently two rows of punctures, the 

 punctures separated by transverse ridges ; the striae are seven or 

 eight, and reach to the apex, but not to the sides, where they 

 become a confused mass of general coarse punctuation, with a 

 tendency here and there to linear arrangement ; the interstices 

 on the disk are subrugose; the margins are reflexed, and there 

 is a large shallow depression on the sides behind the shoulders. 

 The scales or hairs are whitish and not erect, nor are the sides 

 ciliated. The underside is smoother than the upper, the legs 

 shining, the palpi testaceo-ferruginous, and the tarsi paler than 

 the general colour of the legs. 

 One specimen. 



2. Peltis ciliata, 



Obion go-ovata, depressa, brunnea, punctata, setosa, lateribus 



ciliatis ; elytris striato-punctatis. 

 Long. 2J lin., lat. 1 lin. 



Very similar to the preceding, but distinguished by the fol- 

 lowing characters : — It is of a darker brown and duller colour. 

 The transverse line in front is straight, and separates a small 

 ridge in front instead of a rounded prominence; the anterior 

 angles of the thorax are slightly more prominent, and the pos- 

 terior angles not so obtuse. But the chief distinction is, that 

 the elytra are punctate-striate instead of crenate-striate, the 

 striae consisting of rows of punctures, each alternate row of 

 which is stronger than the other, and all about equally distant 

 from each other ; the sides are more regularly punctate in rows, 

 although so closely as to destroy the appearance of striae. The 

 whole surface is covered with stiff, short, erect, brownish bristles, 

 a row running along each stria and one sticking out as a fringe 

 all round the sides both of thorax and elytra. 



I have only received one specimen of this ; and it is possible 

 that a series might show transition passages between this and 

 the preceding species. It is easy to see how a little exaggera- 

 tion of some of the characters might change the one into the 

 other ; but as at present advised, I keep them distinct. 



These two come near in form to some undescribed Indian 

 and Australian species. 



BOTHRIDERES, Erich. 



Bothrideres spleniatus. 

 Saturate vino-castaneus, leviter punctatus thorace splenio 

 Ann. §• Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 3. Vol. xix. 25 



