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ceoussete; anteniiEe black; the first two joints of the funicle 

 equal and longest, the third and fourtli gradually shorter ; 

 club distinct, not longer than last four joints ; prothorax con- 

 tracted at the base, deeply and coarsely punctured, and with 

 a slightly raised longitudinal line ; scutellura subcordiform ; 

 elytra not produced at the shoulders, a small tubercle a little 

 behind the angle, the apex of each rounded, seriate-punctate, 

 punctures large, glossy, approximate ; femora with a small 

 tooth beneath and with the tibige coarsely punctured. 



The spots on the elytra are not very conspicuous and they 

 require a powerful lens to show that they are composed of 

 very short seta3. 



Poropterus afflictus. 



P. ovatus, fuscus, opacus, ad latera pallidior, 8upra granulis parvis 

 nitidis adspersus ; prothorace pone apicem vix constricto ; elytris 

 in medio prothorace vix latioribus. Long, 5 lin. 



Hah. Saylee. 



Ovate, brown, opaque, the sides paler, with silaceous scales 

 and small glossy granules irregularly scattered on the pro- 

 thorax and elytra ; rostrum coarsely and reticulately punc- 

 tured ; antenna3 ferruginous ; prothorax not broader than 

 long, scarcely constricted behind the apex, the disk longitu- 

 dinally hollowed in the middle and at the sides ; elytra scarcely 

 broader in the middle than the protliorax, slightly rounded at 

 the side, covered with numerous small tubercles with glossy 

 granules intermixed, and some crowning the tubercles ; each 

 elytron rounded at the apex; body beneath with greyish scales ; 

 second abdominal segment shorter than the first, the suture 

 curved. 



A rather narrow species comparatively, in outline resem- 

 bling P. cqypToximatus^ but with different sculpture &c. The 

 paler side — forming a sort of stripe in the individual here 

 described — is nearly wanting in another. 



Poropterus hasiliscus. 



P. obovatus, fuscus, opacus, supra granulis parvis nitidis adspersus ; 

 prothorace pone apicem constricto ; elytris ampliato-rotundatis, 

 tuberculatis, apicem rotundatis, singulo macula magna nigro-fusca 

 basali, alterque mediana, notato. Long. 5 lin. 



Hah. Kaioa. 



Obovate, brown, opaque, with silaceous scales and small 

 glossy black granules irregularly scattered on the prothorax 



