ANTHRIBIDAE 55 



praecedentibus simul sumptis longitudine aequali sed latiore. Carina 

 dorsali pronoti basi approximata fere recta laevissime concava, 

 carina laterali panini concava. Scutelluin subtriangulare. Elytra 

 sat longa cylindrica. Pygìdium triangulare. 

 Long. 2,4 mm., lat. 1,1 mm. 



Hab. Fernando Po: one 9 : Punta Frailes, X-XI. 

 1901. 



The smallest species known to me. The head and 

 base of the rostrum are convex; the grey pubescence 

 of head and rostrum is evenly dispersed , not forming 

 spots or patches. Occiput with a brown spot each side. 

 The three segments of the club of the antenna measure: 

 3 and 3 and 6 in lengths and 3 and 4 and 4 and 2 in 

 width (cf. text-fig. 3). 



Pronotum with brown cordiform median patch 

 divided by a grey line, at the apex two ill-defined 

 brown spots and another, rounded, at the side. Dorsal 

 carina very slightly and very evenly concave, almost straight, 

 with a faint indication of a forward bent in the centre, the carina 

 placed close to the basal margin, but yet separate from it and not 

 touching the base of the elytra; lateral carina distinctly though 

 feeblv concave above; the angle of the carina rather more than 90°, 

 with the apex rounded. 



Scutellum slanting with an angle of about 4o°, rounded-trian 

 gular, the apex being slightly but visibly -pointed. 



Elytra elongate, like the rest of the upper surface pubescent 

 grey, the pubescence not very dense; at the base near the scu- 

 tellum, but separated from it, a brown patch, a larger one across 

 the suture in the middle, and a third on the apical declivity of 

 each elytrum, all ill-defined, a few additional brown spots or 

 indications of spots between the larger patches. Pygidium trian- 

 gular, grey, the tip rounded off and turned up. 



Underside and legs pubescent grey; bases of the abdominal 

 segments without grey scale-hairs, appearing therefore rufous. 



22. Oylinclroid.es ventrali»,. Jord. (1920). 



Fernando Po, one 9 : Bahia de S. Carlos, I. 1902. 

 In this specimen all the tarsi are pubescent grey. 



