West'Indian hongicorn Coleoptera. 25 



SoLENOPTEMINM. 



Prosternodes scuteUatus, sp. n. 



Capite nigro, punctato ; prothorace dorso in medio nigro, nitido, 

 sparsim punctato et longitudinaliter sulcato ; scutello pube sericea 

 albo-flavescente dense obtecto ; elytris basi nigrcscentibus, deinde 

 ferriigineis, omnino creberrime punctatis, marginibus apicalibus 

 leviter denticulatis ; episternis metathoracis, fascia obliqua meta- 

 sterni utrinqiie, et vitta longitudinali abdominis ntrinquo, pube 

 albo-flavescente sericea dense obtectis ; pedibus nigrescentibus, 

 punctatis ; tarsis supra rufo-brunneis. 

 (S . Prothorace supra versus latera et subtus (medio excepto) minute 

 confertissimeque punctato, marginibus lateralibus antice rotun- 

 dato-curvatis ; antennis corpore pauUo brevioribus, articulis 4 

 apicalibus subtus sparsim villosis ; tibiis auterioribus subtus versus 

 apicem dense fulvo-villosis. 



Long, 22-35 mm. 



5 . Prothorace supra sparsim pimctato, marginibus lateralibus 

 subrectis, angulis anticis dentatis. 



Long. 26 mm. 



Hab. St. Domingo. British Museum collection and col- 

 lection of Mr. Fry. 



^ . Disk of the prothorax with two distinct, obtuse, longi- 

 tudinal elevations, leaving a channel between ; these eleva- 

 tions, the included channel, and a narrow oblique fascia on 

 each side just anterior to the postero-lateral spine are all 

 glossy and sparsely punctured ; the rest of the surface of the 

 pronotum is dull and finely and very closely punctured ; the 

 anterior margin of the prothorax is pi'ovided with a yellowish- 

 white silky fringe. Scutelluin somewhat semicircular and 

 clothed with a dense yellowish-white silky pubescence. The 

 elytra, at the base blackish, are for the rest of their extent of 

 a reddish-ferruginous colour, and are entirely covered with 

 closely-placed and rather strong punctures ; the apical mar- 

 gins are faintly denticulate. A thick yellowish-white silky 

 pubescence clothes the anterior coxse and sides of the meso- 

 sternum, and forms a fascia on each of the metathoracic 

 epimera, an oblique fascia on each side of the metasternum, 

 and a longitudinal fascia on each side of the abdomen. The 

 V -sliaped figure thus formed on each side of the metathorax 

 encloses a highly polislied and impunctate space on the side 

 of the metasternum. The middle regions of the sterna and 

 abdomen are nitid and sparsely punctured. The abdomen is 

 of a chestnut-brown colour. The legs are blackish and rather 

 thickly punctured. The anterior tibite are furnished with a 

 rather dense villosity underneath towards their distal end 5 



