60 Mnjor T. Broun on new 



extremity of the fourth. Club moderately short, rather 

 ch)!«ely puuetiind and hearing minute brassy seta^, tri- 

 articulate, its tliird h)he either slii:;htly concave or grooved 

 nh)ng the outside so as, in some lights, to indicate a fourth 

 joint, which, however, docs not exist. 



Head coarsely and irregularly punctured, the punctures 

 twice as numerous as in tlie typical female; it is sparingly 

 fringed with somewhat rufesccnt outstanding setaj, and in a 

 small fovea close to the front of each eye there is a cluster 

 of about six setre. T/i orax twice as broad as it is long; the 

 front angles attain the middle of the eyes, the posterior arc 

 obtusely rectangular and rest on the shoulders; the sides 

 are finely margined and so little curved as to appear nearly 

 straight except where they arc narrowed towards the front ; 

 its surface is distinctly but irregularly punctured, between 

 the middle and each side the punctuation, on some spots, is 

 not so close, but there arc no very evident smooth spaces, 

 the punctures usually contain greyish scale-like or sappy 

 matter. Elytra almost as broad as they are long, moderately 

 transversely convex, shoulders oblique, sides regularly 

 slightly rounded, apex rounded ; each with six rather broad 

 but not deep striie, beyond these, laterally and apically, the 

 sculpture is rugose and punctate, the strise, however, are not 

 very definitely punctured, but the whole surface being more 

 or less rugose some parts of the striae appear erenate ; the 

 interstices are broad and punctate; the lateral margins are 

 not distinctly reflexed, but the channels are broad, with 

 coarse, transverse, and rather shallow sculpture. 



Undersuk' sparingly pilose, glossy black, the ventral seg- 

 ments with a transverse series of setigerous punctures on 

 each. 



Tibue sparsely setose or haiiy, the anterior a little expanded, 

 oblique at apex, tridentate externally, tlie inner calcar attains 

 the base of the second tarsal joint. 



J. Length 8 ; breadth 5^- lines. 



Group Cryptorh3nichidse. 



Acalles fuscatus, sp. n. 



Oicite-ob!o7if/, transversely convex, opaque, rufo-fuscous, 

 densely covered with depressed pale brown scales and sappy 

 matter and numerous greyish-yellow erect setae; antenuaj 

 and tarsi ferrugineous. 



Rostrum as long as thorax, red, squamose at base, very 

 gradually and moderately narrowed towards the middle. 



