456 BET. H. S. GOBHAM ON JfEW COtEOPTEEA [May 4, 



22. Tbagelaphus stlvaticus. 



I have also sent home some skins and skulls of the Bush-buck 

 which is plentiful round here. The male strikes me as particularly 

 dai'k, though I expect it is nothing more than a local variety. 

 The body-skin of the specimen of which I have sent the skull and 

 neck-skin was inadvertently omitted. It is much darker than 

 the one marked no. 1 and has not the vestige of a stripe or spot. 

 I have seen one or two other old males, which appeared to me to 

 be much darker still, almost black. 



23. Oreas canna livikgstokii. 



The Eland is very scarce here since the cattle-plague of 1890. 

 Capt. Sclater, R.E., tells me he saw a small herd on the southern 

 slopes of Wonga (=Mt.) Lougonot near Naivasha. I observed the 

 fresh spoor of a single Eland near Kjemps in September last. 



4. Descriptions of new Species of Coleoptera of the Family 

 Endotnychidce from the Eastern Hemisphere. By the 

 Rev. H. S. Gorham, F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived March 4, 1897.] 



(Plate XXXlI.) 



The specimens of Coleoptera of the family Endomychidse, of which 

 it is the object of this paper to give some account, are contained in 

 various collections. A good many are due to the persistent collect- 

 ing of Mr. Doherty in the East. Some have been known to me for 

 many years, but the material was not sufficient for their description. 

 Among the more interesting, 1 may call attention to a new Cpm- 

 haclius, two new and very distinct Eucteani, and the very curious 

 AmjiUslerni. All the species here described are Oriental ; and the 

 descriptions may be regarded as supplemental to my papers on 

 the Erotylid* and Endomychidse collected by Siguor Fea in Burma, 

 pubhshed in the Annals of the Genoa Museum. 



Amphisteenus veebucosus, n. sp. (Plate XX X II. hg. 3.) 

 Niger, suhopacus, irrothorace transversa suhcoj'dato, medio Lituber- 

 cidato ; ehjtris depressii^scidis humeris late carinatis, grosse et 

 confiuenter jiunetatis, singulis tuberculin duobus subcarinatis, uno 

 basali jjicescenti, uno discoidali piceo, punctoque suba^ncali 

 lucido, late fiavo, omatis ; femorum clava rufa. Long. 7*5 

 millim. c? $ • 

 Mas : tibiis antieis infra medium dente valido armatis. 

 Hub. Jata (Friihstorfer, Mus. Brussels). 



Antennae very stout, their third joint as long as the two basal 

 joints united, the fourth to the eighth fusiform, becoming shorter, 

 the club long and lax, the two apical joints a little wider than long ; 

 eyes compressed and kidney-shaped. Head opaque. Thorax at 

 the widest part twice as wide as the length, very much widened 



