1886. ] REV. H. S. GORHAM ON NEW COLEOPTERA. 159 
Mas. Tibiis anticis dente acuto, adjacente, infra medium ; intermediis 
apice incurvato, posticis leviter sinuatis. 
Hab, Madagascar (Cowan). 
Entirely black, subopaque above, body beneath shining. Antenne 
rather short, a little longer in the male than in the female, their 
club not very wide nor abrupt; head rather uneven, with a few 
seattered obsolete punctures. Thorax half as wide again as long, 
opaque ; punctuation very obsolete, minute and scarcely visible, 
basal sulci distinct ; front angles very little produced, scarcely at all 
in the female, sides nearly straight, base finely margined. Elytra 
half as wide again as the thorax and slightly widened behind, callus 
only faintly raised. The male specimen has two minute red dots 
near the apex of the elytra, in the female they are wanting. Meta- 
sternum (in male) depressed between the hind coxe, and first ven- 
tral segment with scattered small punctures. 
Two specimens from Dr. Sharp’s collection. 
AnrprytTvs, Gerst. 
1. ANIDRYTUS QUADRIPUNCTATUS. 
Oblongus, parum ovatus, rufo-piceus, nitidus, crebre subobsolete 
punctatus, cupreo-pubescens ; antennis nigris, articulis quatuor 
basalibus et apice summo rufis; prothorace punctis quatuor 
discoidalibus nigris. Long. 8 millim. 2. 
Hab. Brazil, Blumenau. 
Head finely punctured, a little rugulose between the eyes; basal 
and three following joints of the antennz pale ferruginous, the 
fourth joint being deeper in colour, and at its articulation with the 
third nearly black. Thorax just twice as long as wide, from the 
front angles the sides are very evenly rounded to near the base, where 
they become straight. The basal furrows are two distinctly 
impressed, converging, linear channels; within them, where they end 
on the front of the disk, halfway between the base and the front 
margins, are two round black points (as in A. bipunctatus) ; more in 
front and more widely apart are two other black points. The disk 
and sides of the thorax are evenly, thickly, not confluently punctured, 
but the surface of the black spots is smooth, or in the external spots 
with one or two punctures only. The elytra are somewhat parallel, 
not strongly convex, evenly and more thickly punctured ; the punc- 
tures are (as is usual where they give rise to hairs) not pricked in, 
but irregular, somewhat linear, and flat-bottomed. Legs clear red, 
only a very little darkened at the base of the tibize. The underside 
wholly ferruginous red. 
Although this appears to be a species very nearly allied to A, 
bipunctatus, Gerst. (a species also from Brazil), the description 
given above will show that it differs not only by the four black spots 
of the thorax, but by the colour of the underside and legs as well. 
I have only seen one specimen, a female, which was sent to me by 
Herr Reitter, with other Coleoptera collected in the same district, 
