148 ^li". G. Lewis 071 



Pachycrcerus cf/Undn'cu<t, Lew. Ent. M. M. xvl. p. 77 (1879). 



Cylindricns, clonsatu?, cuprco-viridis, nitidus ; fronte impressa, stria 

 transversa nulla; pronoto stria marginali antice lato iaternipta ; 

 elytris striis 1-4 et suturali subintegris ; prosterno iitrinque 

 parallelo, angustato, bistriato ; mesosterno antice marginato ; 

 tibiis anticis 4-5-dentatis. 

 L. 3 mill. 



Cylindrical, somewhat elonf^ate, coppery green, sliining ; 

 nntennfe and legs piceous, with tlie club of the first red ; (he 

 liead is clearly pnnctnlate, lateral stria continues along the 

 edge of the clypeus, forehead impressed and without a trans- 

 verse stiia; the thorax is wholly punctulate, points larger 

 than those of the head, lateral stria ceases behind the eyes ; 

 the elytra, strire, outer humeral complete, inner fine, aj^ical 

 and dimidiate, 1 dorsal shortened apically, 2-1 longer and 

 coequal, 5 obsolete but partly traceable as punctures and at 

 the base there is a larger puncture as an appendage, sutural 

 does not quite reacli the apex ; the pygi'Ha are clearly but not 

 closely punctured ; the prosternum, the keel is ratlier narrow, 

 1 arallel, and striate laterally ; the mesosternum, the marginal 

 ptria is fine and arched behind the acnmination, not following 

 the outline of the segment ; the anterior tibise are 4-5- 

 dentate. 



This species and P. vigro-ccemhuSj Lew., are tlic most 

 cylindrical of the genus, of which 45 species are now known. 

 JIuh. Abyssinia [A. Rafray). 



Probolosternus termitophilus ^ sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovalis, convexus, uiger, nitidus, antennis pedibusqne piccis ; 

 fronte dense punctulata, stria Integra ; jjronoto marginato, stria 

 laterali nulla ; elytris striis dorsalibus ]-4 et suturali iritegiis, 

 .5 basi abbreviata ; propygidio dense, pygidio tenuiter punctulato ; 

 ])rosterno bistriato ; mesosterno marginato ; tibiis dilatatis. 



L. 4J-5 miD. 



Oval,scmewhat oblong, convex, black, and shining; antenrge 

 find legs piceous ; the head densely punctulate, and the stria, 

 although somewhat feeble anteriorly, is complete; the thorax 

 las a lateral marginal rim which continues as a fine stria 

 behind the bead, the surface is more finely and less densely 

 punctulate than the head, especially behind the neck ; the 

 elytra, there are two fine epi])leural strise and an inner and 

 stronger one all complete, 1-3 also complete and parallel one 

 to the other, 4 and sutural complete and joined as an arch at 

 the base, but the sutural is very fine, 5 is shortened at the 

 base, interstices finely and somewhat sparingly punctulate 

 except at the apex ; the pjropygidium is punctured similarly 

 to the head J the pygidiura not so distinctly; the prosternum 



