SAMPSON—COLEOPTERA; PLATYPODIDA AND IPIDA 383 
4. Cryphalus trypanus, sp. n. 
g. Oblongo-ovalis, fusco-testaceus ; caput globosum insertum, fronte fusca, medio 
transverse carinata; mentum longissime versus basin angustatum, apice utrinque oblique 
truncato, ligula prope menti medium inserta, maxillze mala oblonga, setis rigidis ciliata ; 
palpi labiales articulis 1° et 2° fere quadratis, 3° cylindrico, apice oblique truncato, parvis 
tuberculis ornato. Antennze funiculo 4-articulato, articulo 1° crasso, subgloboso, 2° sub- 
quadrato, sequentibus transversis, latitudine sensim crescentibus ; capitulo infuscato, 
articulo 1° ovali, ceteris lunatis, suturis incurvatis. Prothorax transversus, margine apicali 
tuberculis ordinatis, antrorsum angustatus, dorso anterius scabrato, posterius squamulis 
ornato. Elytra cylindrica lineato-punctata, squamulis setisque seriatis vestita, latitudine 
thoracis et illo paululum longiora, lateraliter a basi ad medium subrecta, deinde arcu 
subzequali ad apicem obtuse rotundata. . Tibize angustze sublineares, versus apicem leniter 
dilatatze, subrectze, extus spinuloso-dentatze, valde pilosee, apice oblique truncatee ; tarsi 
articulo 3° cordato. 
Long. 2 mm. 
?. Mari similis sed prothorace antrorsum minus angustato ; tibiis minoribus capillis 
ornatis, fronte medio longitudinaliter carinata. Long. 2 mm. 
Head black, rugose, with a slight median longitudinal line meeting a much more 
prominent and shiny transverse ridge near the vertex of the head ; the antennal club has, 
on its upper side, three very curved sutures, whilst those on the under side are much 
straighter and four m number; the eyes are emarginate. The prothorax is transverse 
and considerably narrowed towards the apex, dark-coloured, with transverse rows of rather 
scattered elevations anteriorly, which decrease somewhat in size up to the gibbous portion 
of the dorsum, which is situated behind the centre near the posterior margin; at this 
point the prothorax is yellowish in colour, being covered with recumbent scales; the 
anterior edge of the prothorax is furnished with 6—8 somewhat prominent tubercles, and 
the whole of the darker part is covered with semi-erect hairs; the posterior edge is 
margined, as are also the sides, almost half-way to the front. The anterior tibiz are 
furnished with long and coarse hairs on the inner edge, whilst in the females these hairs 
are either absent altogether, or are very fine and short. The scutellum is very minute 
and dark. The elytra are very slightly longer than broad, and about one-fifth longer 
than the prothorax, having longitudinal lines of shallow punctures, the interstices flat, 
broad, and covered with small pale scales with a single row of longish squamulate hairs 
down the centre ; the small interstitial scales and some of those on the prothorax are of a 
rather peculiar shape. 
Not unlike C. vestetus and C. fuliginosus Blandf. but differs outwardly from the 
former in not possessing a dense pubescence, from the latter by the structure of the 
sutures of the antennal club, and from both these species by the prominent tubercles 
on the prothorax. The obliquely truncate labial palpi with their minute terminal 
tubercles are probably common to many other species of the genus, they are seen in 
C’. tiie Panz., in which species the tubercles are rather longer; the cordate third tarsal 
