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lightly emarginate ; shoulders advanced in a strong obtuse 

 tuberculiform projectiou ; apex rounded, without sinuosity (ir 

 projections near suture ; sculpture regular, formed of foveate 

 striie and subgranulate interstices ; granulations of interstices 

 conical on posterior declivity, those of third interstice most 

 prominent and almost reaching to apex ; sculf)ture of sides weak 

 after sixth ( infra-ltunieral ) interstice. Ventral segments longi- 

 tudinally impressed on each side of median vitta as in T. insignis : 

 apical segment not as long as two preceding ones together. Legs 

 of ordinary proportions ; anterior femora shorter, and less 

 dilatate in middle than in T. insignis ; cicatrix of apical part of 

 lower side short and weak. 



Length, 22| ; breadtii, 7.V mm. 



Selerorhinus Elderl, n. sp. 

 Oblong, convex ; prothorax granulate, striate ^ tuberculate. 

 Black, head and dorsal parts of prothorax and elytra thirdy 

 covered with scales of brownish-grey colour (these scales mucli 

 thicker on elytra) : the scales on lower parts of sides of pro- 

 thorax and elytra cinereous, and placed in cavities, those of elytra 

 forming an interrupted marginal stripe ; tubercles, granules, and 

 elevations shining ; a median vitta on under-surface, this vitta in 

 male continuous from mesosternum to apex, narrow, formed of 

 blackish-brown velvety pile ; in female discontinuous, formed 

 (on basal segment of al)domen only) of short gri.seous hair-like 

 scales. 



Rostrum short, wide, liardly narrower than head, lightly 

 emarginate in front, lightly impressed at each side of base of 

 central ridge, which is broad, smooth, very slightly raised, not ex- 

 tending to forehead ; external ridges hardly diverging in front, 

 finely setigero-punctate. Head rather flattened on sides ; occiput 

 convex ; front a little flattened and gently declivous to middle of 

 rostrum. 



Male. — Prothorax not nmch wider than long (6 x 6| mm.), 

 dilatate on sides, broadest before the middle, shortly and roundl}' 

 narrowed in front, gently narrowed behind ; anterior margin 

 sinuate, truncate between ocular lobes ; base truncate ; granules 

 large, unisetigerous ; sides near coxse rugulose, not granulate 

 Elytra oval, narrow (14i- x 7i- mm.), wider than prothorax, 

 widest rather behind middle, a little narrowed to base ; sides 

 lightly rounded ; base truncate ; apex widely rounded, without 

 sinuosity or projections near suture ; dorsal surface not flattened, 

 convex transversely and longitudinally ; five rows of strong 

 closely-placed tubercles on each elytron, the fourth (tlie humeral 

 one) beginning at the shoulder in a strong subcorneal projecting 

 tubercle ; the tubercles rather flatter on dorsal surface, rounder 



