Cohopterci from the Ishiml of lldinan. 349 



Dark brown, with a faint -^reyi-sli pubenceiice coveiiii;^ tlic 

 greater part ot tlio |)r(Miotuin and i-Iytra, anil aycllowisli tawny 

 puhesccnce, broken up into small spot-^, spread over tlie head, 

 underside, le^s, and the posterior two fifths or so of the elytra, 

 a few spots uf the same colour bcintc very sparsely scattered 

 over the anterior three fifths of the elytra, while four obsolete 

 bands — two dorsal and two lateral — made up of the same 

 tawny pubescence are present on the prothorax. Antennre 

 greyish tawny, except at the apex of the third and foUowini; 

 joints, those of the female nearly twice as \ox\}i; as tiie body, 

 with the first six or seven joints ratlier densely ciliate under- 

 neath ; the scape vugosely punctured and less tiian half the 

 length of the third joint, the latter being slightly thickened 

 and somewhat rugose towards the base. Prothorax nearly 

 cylindrical, the sides being but feebly rounded and the 

 tubercles so small as to be almost quite obsolete ; the disk 

 somewhat rugose. Scutellum entirely fulvous pubescent. 

 Elytra granulate at the base and rather thickly and strongly 

 punctured from thence up to the tiiickly spotted posterior 

 area. Frosternal process scarcely dilated near the middle of 

 its length ; the niesosternal process with a feeble cariniform 

 tuliercle along the middle. 



'ihis species, being founded upon a female specimen, is 

 only provisionally placed in the genus Pdirgoderus. In 

 general structure it approaches closely enough to P. vittatus, 

 iServ., the type of the genus, the chief points of difference 

 being that in the latter the antennse are not ciliate under- 

 neath, the scape is relatively longer, and the prosternal 

 process is distinctly enough dilated at about the middle of 

 its lensifth. 



12. MeJanauster viaa'osiilus, sp. n. 



Niger, nit idus ; antennis albo-annulatis ; elytris basi baud granu- 

 latis, ut risque maculis 11 aut 12 albis, ornatis ; pectore abdo- 

 mincque utrinqiie luteo-albo-plagiatis ; processu mesosterni valdo 

 tuberculato. 



Long. 28-38, lat. 11-14 mm. 



llab. WinwtiW {Whitehead). 



Black and glossy. Prothorax with an acute conical tubercle 

 on each side, below which there is a rather large luteous 

 white spot; the disk with a somewhat raised or tuberculate 

 area across the middle, the raised jjart consisting of two 

 oblif[ue tubercles towards each side and a postero-mediau 

 longitudinally impressed tubercle which lies just in front of 

 the deeper and more anterior of the two basal transverse 



