1918.] 56 



One specimen, captured in 1834. This insect is not unlike A. dis- 

 similis Fairm., the S of which wants the caudiform process, from Orange 

 Bay, Perrier Isl., and New Year's Sound, Tierra del Fuego ; but differs 

 from the con'esponding sex of that species, figured by Fairmaire, in 

 the non-excavate caudal process and other particulars. The tarsi are 

 clothed with longer hairs than in A. ruf/irostris, and the laminate third 

 joint is almost entire, instead of being deeply cleft. 



Horsell. 



January 1918. 



CAENOCABA SUBGLOBOSA MULS., A SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA 



NEW TO BRITAIN. 



BY HOEACE DONTSTHOEPE, F.Z.S. 



'^ Eyineatoma subglohosa Muls. — iSubh^mispherique, herissee d'une fine 

 pubescence cendree ; tres-brillante, d'un noir de poix, avec les elytres d'un 

 rouge bruu, les palpes, les tarses, et les antennes d'un roux testae^, le l«r 

 article de celles-ci, les cuisses, et les tibias d'un roux ferrugineux. Tete et 

 prothorax cont'iisement, elytra* subserialement pouctues. Front assez large ; 

 legerement convexe. Prothorax fortement convexe, beaucoup plus etroit en 

 avant; a cotes presques droits et tres-etroitement rebordes, avec les angles 

 auterieui's tres aigus, les posterieurs subobtus et sub^leves ; largement bissinue 

 a la base ; assez fortement convexe, egal. Ecusson subsemicirculaire. Elytres 

 courtement ovalaires, assez convexes, largement et obtus^ment arrondies au 

 sommet, tristri^es-sillonnees sur les cotes, parees, outre la pubescence, de 

 polls s^rialeiuent disposes. Tarses courts, ^troits. Long. 0°^,0012 (3/5).'' 

 Mulsant, Col. de France, Terediles, pp. 377, 378, 1864. 



There are only three species of this genus mentioned in the European 

 catalogue, and Mulsant (I. c. p, 370) gives the following table by which 

 they may be separated : — 



a. Stries des elytres canaliculees. 



b. Elytres confusement ponctuees, a pubescence ordinaire et couchee. 



hovistae. 



bb. Elytres subserialement ponctuees, a pubescence en partie redressee et 



disposee en series regulieres affinis. 



aa. Stties des elytres sulciformes. Elytres subserialement ponctuees, a pubes- 

 cence en partie redressee et disposee en series regulieres . . siihglobosa. 



Of these three species C. subglohosa is the smallest ( C. affinis is the 

 largest) and is very distinct from our only British species known up to 

 now — C. hovistae. It may be known from the latter by its smaller 

 size ; shorter, subglobose shape ; more golden (less grey) and less decum- 

 bent pubescence, the suberect hairs being an'anged in more or less distinct 

 rows, and more distinct and longer pubescence beneath ; more shining 



