BOSTRIOHID^. I'li) 



antennae and legs and the lateral margins of the elytra lighter ; 

 funiculus of the antennae furnished with the same upright hairs as the 

 frontal region ; second joint of the club of the antennse scarcely 

 transverse, rounded on its internal border ; lateral portion of the 

 granulate anterior portion of the thorax more or less punctured, with 

 the granulations scarcely prominent ; punctuation of the posterior area 

 of the thorax fine and rather thick, not at all ocellate, central foveas 

 obsolete; scutellum plainly transverse; elytra with the punctuation 

 rather fine near the base, but very strong, confluent and areolate on 

 the posterior declivity, where it is distinctly ocellate; suture slightly 

 projecting and somewhat bicarinate on the declivity. L. 3j-3f mm. 



Cosmopolitan : Europe, India, Indo-China, Philippine Islands. 

 There are also specimens in the British Museum from Japan and Hong 

 Kong which probably belong to this species ; the only British examples 

 which have been recorded are one in the Power Collection labelled 

 " Darenth, Lewis," and one mentioned by Stephens (Lc.) as " Taken at 

 Little Chelsea in July last by Mr. Westwood. It is probably exotic, 

 having been found in a cup of cofiee." 



D. minutus, Fabr. (Syst. Ent. 1775, 54) ; D . substriatus {?), Steph. 

 (111. Brit. iii. 352 {nee Payk.) ) ; D. siculus, Baudi (Berl. Ent. Zeit. 

 1873,336). Slightly elongate, brown, with the dorsal basal half of the 

 elytra lighter, sometim-es reddish, or with the thorax dark and the 

 elytra dark reddish, antenna; and tarsi lighter ; raised hairs of the 

 frontal region always very short and scanty ; marginal rows of the 

 granulate portion of the thorax formed of teeth moi'e or less pointed at 

 apex, somewhat widely separated from one another, the central being 

 more projecting than the lateral. Punctuation of the sides of the 

 posterior area of the thorax thick and strong, but not confluent, very 

 finely ocellate, cential foveas distinct. Scutellum dull, not carinate ; 

 elytra furnished with thick, short red hairs on their posterior declivity ; 

 punctuation of elytra thick, deeper towards base than at apex, more or 

 less confused, though in parts showing strong signs of rows ; punctuation 

 of the posterior declivity plainly ocellate ; suture not projecting on the 

 declivity as in the preceding species. L. '-^^-'^h mm. 



Cosmopolitan : in roots, cotton, &c. ; the pair described by Stephens 

 were said to have been taken in the New Forest ; it was found by Pro- 

 fessor Hudson Beare in some numbers in his house at Richmond, before 

 he moved to Edinburgh, in the wood of an old paper-basket. 



STEPHANOPACHYS, Waterhouse. 



This genus is very near Dinoderus, but may be known by the 

 characters of the front and the lateral thoracic suture : it contains a 

 few species which appear to be chiefly palsearctic in their distribution ; 

 three occur in Europe. 



S. substriatus, Payk. (Faun. Suec. iii. 1800, 192; Lesne, Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Franc. 1^97, 337) ; Fowler (Brit. Col. iv. 200, plate cxviii. 

 fig. 13). This is the insect which I h;ive describe 1 and figui'cd (I.e.) as 



