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process of the abdomen being broad, and obtusely rounded in front. 

 First three abdominal sternites more or less fused together, the 

 sutures between them being apparent only towards the sides ; 

 fourth steiTiitc very narrow, with its hiud margin, like that of the 

 third, arcuate behind. Tarsi five-jointed, of equal width throughout 

 their whole length, ciliated on each side below, even on the claw- 

 joint. 



This genus seems best placed in the group Ptinides of the family 

 Ptinida), although it does not agree in some important particulars 

 with Lacordaire's definition of that group. 



43. Neoptinus parvus, Gahan, sp.n. (PI. X, Fig. 10.) 



Nigro-piceus, supra sub-crecte setosis, pedibus et antennarum 

 apice testaceis ; antennis basin prothoracis paullo superantibus, 

 articulis 2° ad 8"'^^ inter se subae(iualibus, articulo 9° duobus 

 precedentibus unitis sequilongo, paullo crassiore ; prothorace trans- 

 verso, lateribus marginatis, postice cum basi rotundatis ; elytris 

 late ovatis, humeris nullis ; striato-punctatis, breviter sub-erecte 

 setosis. 



Long. 1"5, lat. 1mm. 



Pitchy black, with the legs and the last joint of the antennae 

 testaceous. Eyes small ; antennae inserted upon the front at a 

 short distance in advance of the eyes, nine- jointed, with the first 

 joint thick, and nearly twice as long as the second, joints second to 

 eighth sub-equal in length, the ninth thicker than the seventh or 

 eighth and a little longer than these two united. Pronotum trans- 

 verse, convex above, deflexed towards the sides, basal margin 

 rounded, and forming with the lateral margins a continuous curve ; 

 so that, looked at from above, the pronotum has somewhat the 

 form of a segment of a circle, the anterior margin being, however, 

 not straight, but slightly bowed forwards in the middle ; the 

 surface sparsely setose. Elytra broadly oval, without shoulders, 

 convex above, and the surface of each marked with eight rows of 

 rather large and closely approximated punctures, each of which is 

 slightly transverse in direction, and carries a greyish-white seta 

 springing from its anterior margin ; on the defl.exed (and slightly 

 inflexed) side of each elytron there are two or three less regular 

 rows of punctures. Prosternum much shorter than the pronotum ; 

 narrow in the middle, and scarcely separating the anterior coxae 

 from one another ; metasternum short, its sides, as well as the 

 sides of the abdomen, thickly impressed with large shallow 

 punctures ; these punctures extend also on to the middle of the 

 intermediate sternites, but are absent from the intercoxal process 

 and from the fifth stemite ; the latter is narrow, and is rounded at 

 the apex. 



Taken on the east coast of the island, September, 1897. 



