58 On iitic Genera and Species of Coleoptcra. 



near tlic suture, on each, there is one regular series of 

 distinct and moderately cU)se punctures extending from base 

 to aj)e\ ; the second series readies from the a|)ex to beyond 

 the iiiidiUe, but between it and the shoulder tliere are some 

 irregidar, ohhcjue, and more distant rows; the scries near tlie 

 side are irrej:;uhir and almost curvate ; the surface is uneven, 

 but there are no well-defined nodosities. Legs variegated 

 with brown, testaceous, or red, yet seldom constant, the 

 setje similarly mottled. 



i'ndtrsiJe covered with infuscate matter and numerous 

 flavesecnt sctai. When carefully scraped the prosteinum 

 apjicars truncate instead of being somewhat emargmate; 

 interposed between the front edge and the coxse there is a 

 transverse groove, and behind this a distinct ridge; the coxae 

 are rather lurther apart than in P. binudosus, and the inter- 

 vening space is plane instead of being concave, as it is in 

 that species. 



Length :2-i— 3 ; breadth U-1^ lines. 



AVcllington. 



Mr. G. V. Hudson kindly sent me some specimens of 

 this interesting species. 



Group Ehipiphoridae. 

 Rhypistena cryptarthra. 



Narroic, elongate, dull black, clothed with short decumbent 

 cinereous pubescence; anteunge and tarsi fuscous, palpi 

 paler. 



Head densely and minutely punctate. Thorax very much, 

 yet gradually, narrowed anteriorly, so that there it is not 

 half the width of the I ead ; its base is deeply bisinuate, and 

 the posterior angles clasp the shoulders; it is very obtusely 

 elevated along the middle, and its sculpture is like that of 

 the head. Scutellum large, triangular. .Elytra elongate, 

 scarcely any vider than the thorax at the base; apices 

 acutely rounded ; they are closely and minutely sculptured, 

 and liEve, on each, two or thiee indistinct costae. Tarsi 

 long and slender. 



AiiientKB elongate, basal joint stout and evidently longer 

 than third, second rather longer than broad, third haruly 

 any longer than it is broad and slender at the base, I'ourih 

 excessively "Hiort and almost indistinguishable ; joints 5—10 

 very short, eaeli with a long slender lobe equalling the 

 itur basal joints taken together; eleventh equally elongate; 

 these seven lobes, in repose, are closely adapted to one 

 another. 



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