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TENEBRIONIDAE. 



Caediomorpha heteromera, King. Helaeiis castor, Pasc. 



Cestriniis aspersus, Blackb. Saragus oleatus, Carter 



Exangeltus gracilior, Blackb. 



CURCULIONIDAE. 



In addition to the other species recorded, a single specimen was obtained of 

 an interesting one belonging to the same genus as Myositta crucigera, Blackb., 

 but which Blackburn afterward stated did not belong to Myositta, but probably 

 to Agestra. Unfortunately it is an abraded female, so it is undesirable to 

 name it. 



Euthyphasis lineata. Lea. Three specimens from the island appear to belong 

 to this species, of which previously only the type was known ; they differ from 

 it in having the clothing less lineate in appearance on the prothorax, and not at 

 all lineate on the elytra, on one of them it has a distinctly golden gloss on the 

 upper-surface, and a slight gloss on the under-surf ace ; on the others the gloss 

 is faint on the under-surface, and on the upper-surface the scales are mostly of 

 an opaque white, mixed with muddy-grey. The type was not abraded, but one 

 of the island ones has been partly abraded, and its elytral punctures are seen to 

 be large, close together, and wider than the interstices. 



Mandalotus murrayi, n. sp. 

 PI. xxxi., figs. 4, 5. 



$ . Castaneous to dark brown, some parts occasionally almost black. 

 Densely clothed with pale scales, obscurely or moderately mottled with small 

 patches of greyish or brownish ones ; in addition with numerous pale setae, on 

 the elytra condensed to form a single row on each interstice. 



Head with punctures concealed. Eyes small. Rostrum gibbous between 

 antennae, derm concealed. Antennae with scape slightly curved and moderately 

 stout, almost as long as funicle and club combined, first joint of the latter stout 

 and moderately long. Prothorax moderately transverse, sides somewhat dilated 

 to apical third and then strongly narrowed to apex ; with small, flattened granules, 

 and a rather feeble median line. Elytra gently but not quite evenly arcuate at 

 base ; striate-punctate, punctures large but appearing small through clothing, 

 interstices gently convex, with dense and small, concealed punctures. Abdomen 

 with basal segment somewhat flattened, with two small tubercles close together 

 at the middle of its apex. Front coxae almost touching, middle ones moder- 

 ately, the hind ones widely separated. Length, 3'75-4'25 mm. 



? . Differs in being slightly more robust, basal segment of abdomen gently 

 convex, without tubercles, and legs and antennae slightly shorter. 



The two small tubercles on the abdomen of the male associate this species 

 with M. lutosus, but on that species the small tubercles are so placed that the 

 distance between them is about equal to the length of the second segment ; on 

 the present species they are closer together, the distance between them being 

 scarcely half the length of that segment ; the present species also is larger, with 

 the scape and basal joint of antennae stouter, and setae of elytra pale instead 

 of dark. On three specimens the colour of the derm is almost black, on three 

 others it is almost entirely castaneous, but on most of the others the prothorax is 

 distinctly darker than the elytra. Type, L 15723. 



Rhinaria maculiventris, n. sp. 



Black or blackish-brown, some parts obscurely paler. Densely clothed with 

 scales conspicuously variegated on upper-surface, white on under-surface except 



