532 ME. GUY A. K. MARSHALL ON COLEOPTEEA 



Scutellum latitudine basali sesqui-longius. Elytra oblongo-ovata, convexa, prothorace panlo 

 latiora, 10-striata. Sternum coxis anticis anguste separatis, processu mesosternali quam 

 coxa evidenter angustiore, coxis mediis prominentibus, episterno metasternali postice gradatim 

 angustato, epimero mesosternali supra rotundato. Pedes graciles^ femoribus gradatim 

 incrassatis, tarsis tenuibus, articulo tertio quam ceteris vix latiore. 



Allied to Ehabdocnemis Faust, but distinguished by the following characters : — 

 the rostrum is subangulated dorsally above the antennas and the thickened basal 

 portion bears a deep central furrow; the prothorax has a distinct downward slope 

 dorsally towards the apex and the base is roundly produced in the middle; the 

 scutellum is much broader, and triangular instead of lanceolate ; the elytra are more 

 oblong and distinctly convex transversely; the py'gidium is much broader and more 

 convex, and lacks the lateral and central setigerous ridges ; all the coxee are 

 more prominent, the median pair are much closer together, the mesosternal process 

 being evidently narrower than the coxa ; the legs are longer and more slender, 

 especially the tarsi, in which the 1st joint is longer than the 2nd and the 2nd than 

 the 3rd, the latter being scarcely broader than the others, the trochanters also bear 

 a long bristle. 



Spaeganobasis subcruciatus, sp. n. (PL XXXIX. fig. 11.) 



$ ? . Niger, opacus, iudumento velutino signaturas rubras ssepe obscurante indutus, prothorace 

 rubro-vittato, elytris cruce rubra indistincta signatis ; rostro in parte basali grosse sed parum 

 profunde puuctato, supra antennas rotundato-dilatato ; prothorace longiore quam latiore, 

 a basi ultra medium perparum angustato, ad apicem constricto subtubulato, lateribus sub- 

 sinuatis, supra subremote et parum profunde punctato, punctis in areis nigris sparsioribus ; 

 scutello impunctato; elytris profunde striatis, striis punctis remotis iudistinctis obsitis, 

 interstitiis convexis latis impunctatis, fasciculis sericeis parvis brevissimis remotis uniseriatim 

 prseditis, fasciculis in signaturis rubris plus minus confluentibus. 



Colour dull black, with the following dull red markings : — prothorax with an 

 outwardly curved stripe on each side of the middle line and a marginal stripe on each 

 side ; elytra with an oblique stripe from the shoulder to the suture before the middle 

 and another starting from the suture behind the middle and running obliquely back- 

 wards, between these a triangular lateral patch, and also a variable basal band ; 

 all these markings are very variable and are apt to be obscured by a velvety 

 indumentum. 



Head with coarse separated punctures, the forehead narrow and without any 

 impression. Eostrum longer and more curved in the ? than in the d , the 

 thickened basal portion roundly dilated above the antennae and set with coarse shallow 

 punctures which are more or less filled with a silky brownish indumentum ; the distal 

 portion of the rostrum with diminishing punctures throughout in the 6 , in the 

 2 punctate only in its basal area. Prothorax longer than broad, broadest near 

 the base and slightly diminishing to far beyond the middle, the sides subsinuate 



