1230 COLEOPTEBA 



which obtains in Scolopterus ; the interstices are neither distinctly 

 punctured nor rugose. 



Length (rost. incl.), 2^ lines ; breadth, f line. 



Mount Arthur. Cheeseman. Another specimen, sent from Puy- 

 segur Point by Mr. Hansen, but not in good condition, has reddish 

 legs and chestnut-coloured elytra with testaceous tubercles. 



2167. H. Cyanea, n.s. Shining, head and thorax blue, elytra 

 somewhat violaceous, legs dark-blue, the knees and tarsi infuscate, 

 antennae nigro-fuscous, the scape (except at apex) fuscous. 



Eostrum closely punctured at the sides, nearly smooth along the 

 middle, it bears elongate pallid hairs. Head nearly subquadrate 

 behind, closely and moderately coarsely punctured, quite rugosely 

 and densely at the sides ; with numerous short, slender, pale hairs ; 

 the neck as wide as the front of the thorax, minutely and densely 

 sculptured. Eyes large, very prominent, longitudinally oval, more 

 approximate in front than behind. Thorax convex, just about as 

 long as broad, widest at the base, very much, and rather abruptly, 

 narrowed in front, apical margin smooth; its punctuation rather 

 coarse, more or less transversely confluent, appearing rugose ; 

 clothed with slender hairs. Elytra convex, suboblong, gradually 

 narrowed and depressed posteriorly ; striate-punctate, the punctures 

 close ; interstices with numerous transverse rugosities, and with a 

 series of rather elongate slender pallid hairs on each. Legs pu- 

 bescent, posterior femora strongly angulated below, tibiae curved. 

 Pygidium black. 



Underside more or less clothed with greyish hair-like scales. 



Length (rost. excl.), 1-| lines; breadth, f line. 



Ho wick. 



OBS. This does not agree with the description of H. hookeri, 

 which should have reddish legs, and no pubescence above. 



Stephanorhynchus. 



2168. S. nigrosparsus, n.s. Variegate, pitchy-brown ; except 

 the head and thorax, densely covered with elongate fine scales, 

 mostly yellowish-brown, there are some greyish ones on the middle 

 of the thorax and elytral suture, and some black ones form an intra- 

 humeral spot, and an oblique interrupted patch extending from the 

 side to near the suture of each wing-case ; legs variegate, the pre- 

 dominating colours reddish-brown and grey ; antennae and tarsi 

 infuscate, the club and basal joint of the funiculus darkest. 



Eostrum about as long as head, not gibbous, closely sculptured ; 

 eyes prominent, the intervening space not concave, vertex without 

 prominences, coarsely and closely punctate. Prothorax conical, 

 elongate, greatly narrowed and constricted in front, and with a 

 slighter constriction behind the middle ; not tuberculate, but sculp- 

 tured like the head. Elytra suboblong, apices not prolonged ; 

 apparently punctate-striate ; on the middle, near the suture, each 

 has a long elevation, and there is another but much smaller one 



