704 COLEOPTERA 



the anterior angles and on the dorsal line ; none of these, however, are 

 very evident ; a few small elevations appear on the sides, chiefly near the 

 base, where seven or eight may be seen ; the minute scales prevail on 

 the disc, the more elongate on the sides ; two or three bare spaces are 

 densely but finely rugulose, but no other sculpture can be discerned. 

 The elytra are almost of the same width as the thorax at the base, 

 dilated beyond the oblique shoulders, narrowed and declivous behind ; 

 they have very obsolete furrows, with moderately large, shallow punc- 

 tures ; two elongate basal elevations are placed between the suture and 

 shoulders, and several more or less rounded ones along the sides and 

 behind with elongate scales on them, the hind slope being most tubercu- 

 late. The legs are similarly clothed, and, like some parts of the body, 

 bear short, curled setae. Antenna rather long, the base of the scape 

 nude ; the rest covered with scales and fine setse ; funiculus shining, with 

 short yellowish bristles ; club pubescent. The under-side is clothed pretty 

 much in the same way as the upper. 



Length (rost. excl.), 3 lines ; breadth, i^-. 



My specimen was taken in a saw-pit at Parua. 



Geophilus (P. 445)- 



1239. Gr. politus, n.s. Shining, castaneous; the sides of the 

 thorax and some portions of the elytra more or less piceous; legs reddish ; 

 antennae somewhat testaceous, but becoming darker towards the 

 extremity. 



The whole body is sparsely clothed with depressed, elongate, brassy 

 scales, the femora with decumbent setae, the tibiae with erect ones, and the 

 tarsi with fine bristles : its form does not differ materially from that of the 

 typical species, being moderately convex, short, and broadly oval, widest 

 between the two hind pairs of thighs, and narrowed towards the apex of 

 the thorax, without any evident sinuosities. 



Rostrum robust, much shorter than thorax, expanded in front, flat, 

 with shallow grooves, rather rough with ill-defined sculpture, and ob- 

 scurely coloured. Antenna inserted near the apex ; scape shorter than 

 funiculus, flexuose, abruptly clavate at the extremity ; funiculus finely 

 hispid ; basal joint stout, second but little shorter but more slender and 

 thickened at the end ; joints 3-7 become shorter and more transversal ; 

 club pubescent, large, ovate, its basal articulation appearing more like an 

 enlarged obconical eighth joint than a part of the club itself. Eyes de- 

 pressed and coarsely facetted, but, owing to the dull rough surface of the 

 head and beak, they do not seem very distinct. Prothorax broadly 

 conical, contracted and depressed anteriorly, rounded laterally, its base 

 not distinctly obliquely truncated towards the sides, seeming rather ob- 

 tusely rounded or sub- truncate ; its surface, though moderately punctured, 

 exhibits no inequalities. Elytra short and broad, cordate, their basal 

 margin scarcely exceeding the thorax in width, from thence they are 

 distended so as to appear as if obtusely dilated between the two hind 

 pairs of thighs, and are then gradually narrowed, but, when approaching 

 the apex, are rather abruptly and sinuously narrowed ; their highest and 

 broadest parts are coincident ; each elytron is impressed with six or seven 

 shallow striae with distinct punctures in them, and, though very slightly 

 uneven, does not present any well-defined irregularities. Legs robust ; 



