l8o COLEOPTERA 



vestitis ; prothorace dense fere regulariter punctate, lateribus sinuatis, 

 angulis posteriortbus rectis ; elytris costatis, costis crebre interruptis ; 

 antennis pedibusque ferrugineis, illis articulo ultimo fere ovali. 



Long., 9 mm. 



Antenna with the ninth and tenth joints not greatly broader than 

 long, eleventh joint rather longer than broad. Head densely and 

 coarsely punctured. Thorax a good deal contracted behind the middle, 

 its hind angles sharply defined and just rectangular ; thorax coarsely and 

 closely punctured, but along the middle the punctures are more sparing, 

 though they leave no distinctly defined smooth spaces ; towards the 

 margins it is clothed with coarse pale scales. Elytra with fine costse, 

 which are broken up by numerous narrow but quite distinct interrup- 

 tions ; they are clothed with coarse pale scales, and bear some indistinct 

 patches of coarse dark fuscous setse or scales. 



This species is allied to Leperina brounii, Pascoe, but is very distinct 

 by the much less short terminal joints of the antennae. 



Christchurch, a single individual found by Mr. Wakefield. 



Promanus. 



Sharp; Ent. Mon. Mag., April, 1877. 



I have thought it advisable to create a new generic name for the 

 following species. Its principal structural characters are : Antenna 

 eleven-jointed, with a very large basal joint, and a tri-articulate club ; 

 maxillary /<z^/ largely developed, terminal joint elongate, sub-securiform. 

 Head small, with eyes very prominent ; and with the clypeus separated 

 from the front by a deep suture. Prosternal process very narrow, middle 

 coxae nearly contiguous ; epipleurcz of elytra very narrow, except at the 

 base. Its systematic position at present should be in the Trogositida, 

 near Ostoma, in Herr Reitter's arrangement. 



321. P. depreSSUS, Sharp / Ent. Mon. Mag., April, 1877. Ob- 



l ongo-ovalis, elongatus, sub-parallelus, nigro-piceus, marginibus dilutiori- 



bus, subriudus, haud nitidus, antennis pedibusque ferrugineis ; prothorace 



fortiter transverse, lateribus subrotundatis, angulis posterioribus obtusis ; 



elytris seriebus numerosis punctorum impressis. 



Long., 7 mm. ; lat, 3 mm. 



Antenna reddish, with the basal joint very large, the ninth joint 

 abruptly larger than the preceding, rather strongly transverse, but a good 

 deal narrower at the base than at the apex ; tenth about as broad as but 

 a little shorter than ninth ; eleventh about as long as broad, nearly as 

 broad as tenth, its apex slightly truncate. Head coarsely and densely 

 punctured, and bearing a fine very scanty pubescence. Thorax about 

 as broad as the elytra, very transverse, the anterior angles not at all pro- 

 duced, the sides distinctly but not broadly explanate, the sides a little 

 rounded, the width at the hind angles the same as at the front, the base 

 broadly but slightly emarginate in front of the scutellum, the surface 

 with shallow punctures and a few fine hairs ; the punctures are coarse 



