104 Christmas Island. 



44. Paranobium posticum, Gahan, gen. et sp. n. 

 (PI. X, Fig. 9.) 



(9) Fuscum, pube fulvo-grisea sat dense vestitum ; antennis 

 11-articiilatis, fortiter serratis, articulis 4° ad 10^™ inter se sub- 

 cequalibus, 11° quam 10° paullo longiore ; prothorace dense 

 punctulato, ad latera sub-obliquiter gibboso sed non marginato, 

 disco postice valde gibboso, fere in cristam elevato ; elytris dense 

 sat fortiterqne punctatis, f usco - brunneis, iitroque elytro lineis 

 quatuor pallidioribus, paullo elevatis, instructo. 



Long. 7 ".5, lat. 3 mm. 



Head and protborax dark brown, -with a ratber dense tawny-grey 

 pubescence. Antennae reddish brown, about half as long again as 

 the head and protborax together, 11 -jointed, with the joints from 

 the third to the tenth sub-equal in length, the third feebly angular 

 a little before its apex, the fourth to tenth each produced antero- 

 distally into a sharply angular process, eleventh a little longer than 

 the tenth. Protborax with an oblique projection, passing forwards 

 from the basal margin, on each side ; the disk raised in the middle, 

 so as to form a blunt crest or tubercle behind ; surface closely 

 punctulate, but with the punctures more or less concealed by the 

 pubescence. Elytra nearly half as broad again as the pi'othorax, 

 closely and somewhat strongly punctured, reddish brown in colour, 

 and clothed with a fulvous - grey pubescence, which is somewhat 

 paler along four slightly raised lines running from the base to the 

 posterior declivous part of each elytron, these lines being connected 

 together behind by means of one or two oblique branches. First 

 joint of each of the tarsi as long as the three succeeding joints 

 taken together, slightly narrowed towards the base ; the second 

 joint a little longer than either the third or fourth. 



One example, taken near Flying Fish Cove, December, 1897. 



As this species does not fit well into any of the described genera 

 of Anobiides, I have given to it the generic name of Paranohium. 

 Two very closely allied species are represented in the British 

 Museum collection, one by a single unnamed specimen from Natal, 

 the other by a specimen from Siam. In the Natal specimen, which 

 probably is a male, the antennae are longer than in the specimen 

 described above, and the joints from the fourth to the tenth are 

 furnished with longer processes. 



45. Aspidiphorus orbiculatus, Gyll. 



Examples of this species have been obtained with a fungus — 

 Stemonitis splendens, Eost., collected by Mr. Andrews in Christmas 

 Island. This species is found in England, though rarely, and also 

 on the Continent. An example from Java in the British Museum 

 collection, in which the protborax and elytra are of a reddish -brown. 



