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Coleopterous insect with which I am acquainted,— the only instance 

 that I can now recall in which the organs of sight are thus fur- 

 nished (and even there in only a very slight degree) being the 

 Acritus littoralis (a minute member of the Histerklce), which I have 

 captured from beneath sea-weed in the Canary Islands, on the sandy 

 shores of Lanzarote. 



I have much pleasure in dedicating it to its captor. 



§ II. Corpus minoris magnitudinis ; oculis minoribus, nudis ; 

 scutello minuto, mjre observando ; alts obsoletis. 



(Subgenus Tarphiosoma.) 



Tarphiodes indicus, n. sp. (PI. XVIII. fig. 1.) 

 T. oblongo-obovatus, niger, vix subnitidus, setis robustis erectis fulves- 

 centibus parce tectus ; prothorace brevi, in disco profimde punctato, 

 ad latera valde et subaequaliter rotundato; elytris convexis, seriatim 

 tuberculatis ; antennis ferrugineis, clava dilutiore ; pedibus piceo-fer- 

 rugineis, tibiis valde setosis. 

 Long. corp. lin. 2-2J. 



Habitat ad Coimbatoor, in India australi, a Dom. M. J. Walhouse re- 

 pertus. 



In its apterous body and but very slightly developed scutellum, 

 no less than in its diminished bulk, more ovate outline, and smaller, 

 tmsetose eyes, the present beetle approaches the normal Tarphii far 

 more closely than the preceding one does ; nevertheless the many 

 and important characters which separate it entirely from that genus 

 have already been pointed out. In external fades, however, it bears 

 so strong a resemblance to those insects that I have thought it 

 worth while to give a figure of it ; and I have added on the same 

 plate a Tarphius * proper, from each of the three countries in which 



* Fig. 2 is the T. gibbidus, Germ., from Sicily ; fig. 3 the T. Lowei, from 

 Madeira ; and fig. 4 the Palman variety of the T. canariensis. As regards the 

 first of these, the Sicilian T. gibbidus, although it has been twice drawn already 

 (namely, in the 24th fasciculus of Germar's ' Fauna Ins. Europae,' and more 

 recently, though less precisely, in the 2nd vol. of M. Duval's excellent ' Genera 

 des Col. d' Europe'), and although I gave a diagnosis of it, in a foot-note, at 

 p. 132 of my ' Ins. Mad.,' I have nevertheless thought it worthy, from the im- 

 portant position which it occupies in having to be accepted as the type of the 

 whole genus, of a place in the present paper. I would therefore re-characterize 

 it thus : — 



Tarphius gibbulus. 



T. cylindrico-oblongus, piccus, granulis squamisque pa<-vis fuscescentibus parce 

 vestitus et pilis (nee setis) longiusculis suberectis cinereis parce tectus ; pro- 



