1404 COLEOPTEBA 



OBS. Three varieties occur. 



Var. A. Head not so dark, distinctly bordered with testaceous. 

 Elytra not distinctly spotted, the light colour forming suffused 

 patches. 



Var. B. Head testaceous at the sides ; sides of thorax with 

 suffused spots only. Elytra nearly all dark, the series of punctures 

 with a tendency to unite by pairs at the base. 



These forms may afterwards prove to be distinct species ; at 

 present I treat them as varieties only. 



2447. P. lineatllSj n.s. Nitid, fusco-testaceous, the middle of 

 the thorax and a large portion of the elytra fuscous, legs concolorous 

 sordid-testaceous or feebly reddened, antennae and palpi testaceous, 

 club infuscate. 



Head rather short, epistome truncate ; from each antenna an 

 oblique line extends inwardly, meeting the opposite one on the 

 vertex ; the surface is closely and distinctly but finely punctured. 

 Thorax not quite so closely, but more distinctly, punctured than the 

 head. Elytra with series of closely-placed moderate punctures 

 which become striae behind and along the sides ; near the middle of 

 the base the serial punctures are hardly more obvious than those 

 on the interstices. 



Underside reddish-brown. The prosternum slightly raised or 

 swollen on the middle ; in front of this there is a slight angulation. 

 The abdomen marked in nearly the same way as in the typical species. 



This is rather more broadly oval than P. signatus ; the eyes are 

 not quite so prominent ; the punctuation of the thorax, instead of 

 being distinctly and rather abruptly coarser at the sides, becomes 

 coarser gradually ; the serial punctures on the elytra are not so well 

 marked ; and the mentum is more deeply emarginate. 



Var. A. Body testaceous, middle of thorax smoky-brown, a large 

 part of the head fuscous, elytra somewhat infuscate, and in front of 

 the scutellum there is a round fovea. 



Length, 1 lines ; breadth, f line. 



Capleston. I have seen three specimens ; these were sent at 

 different times by Mr. Cavell. 



AdolopUS (Gen., p. 940). 



2448. A. COnvexus, n.s. Convex, shining, pitchy-black ; 

 lateral margins and legs red ; tarsi, palpi, and antennae more or 

 less rufo-testaceous, the club infuscate. 



Head broad, minutely and indistinctly punctate. Antennas, short. 

 Thorax strongly transverse, the sides rounded towards the front ; the 

 anterior angles much rounded, the posterior nearly rectangular ; its 

 surface very finely punctured, and with two distinct basal foveae. 

 Scutellum nearly smooth. Elytra finely and moderately closely 

 punctured, the sides and apical portion with series of coarser punc- 

 tures. 



Bather larger and more convex than A. altulus (No. 158), the sides 

 of the body nearly vertical, the elytral margins a little explanate at 



