Goleopterological Notices, VII. 573 



but seems to be allied, as before stated, to Periplectus, from the 

 east coast of southern Africa. 



Batrisini. 



BATRISrS Aub(5. 



The possession of a long terminal appendage of the hind tibite 

 characterizes by far the greater number of forms inhabiting the 

 Atlantic coast regions, and, if the genus is to be divided, this will 

 perhaps prove to be a better criterion than the pronotal sculpture 

 assumed by Reitter; the geniis Arthmius, which is constantly as- 

 sumed b}^ Reitter and Raffray to be a subgenus of Batrisus, is in 

 no way closely related, as I have previously pointed out; the 

 South American species with strongly modified front in the males 

 possibly do not belong to Arthmius at all. In some of the east- 

 ern species of Batrisus there are sexual differences in the pygidium 

 analogous to those known to exist in the California representa- 

 tives. In schaumi, for example, the pygidium of the male is 

 semicircular and merel}^ tumid, while in the female it has a short 

 but acutely elevated discal carina ; in that species the long slender 

 spine of the intermediate legs projects from basal third or fourth 

 of the feinur of both sexes, and is not confined to the male or at- 

 tached to the trochanter as stated by Brendel. 



B. temporalis n. sp. — Eather slender, convex, polished, pale rufo-testa- 

 ceous in color throughout, minutely and sparsely punctulate, the punctules of 

 the head and pronotum feebly asperate; pubescence moderate in lengthy 

 strongly reclined, coarse and somewhat sparse. Head distinctly narrower than 

 the prothorax and lather longer than wide, the eyes moderate in size, convex 

 and prominent, at a little less than their own length from the base, the tem- 

 pera nearly parallel, feebly arcuate and less prominent behind them to the 

 basal angles, which are well defined; upper surface but slightly convex, shining 

 behind, dull in ne.irly apical half owing to very coarse polygonally crowded 

 punctures which extend to the transverse crest of the front between the an- 

 tennse; there the front becomes declivous in about 45 degrees, and narrowed 

 between the large antennal cavities, with the apex broadly and feebly bilobed . 

 the s-urface of the sloping portion is deeply and broadly excavated, polished 

 and impunctate, and has at the middle a triangular elevation prolonged an- 

 teriorly into a fine process projecting in the feeble tinus of the apical margin; 

 the triangular elevation bears two pairs of acute setigerous tubercles both ar- 

 ranged transversely, the posterior much the larger, the anterior very approxi- 

 mate and minute; the clypeus beneath has a double edge, with a medial cari- 

 niform setigerous elevation, the apex of which appears at a slight distance be- 

 fore the sinus of the bilobed frontal edge and at the same level; posteriorly 



Aknals N. Y. Acad. Scr., IX, June, 1897.— 38. 



