460 THE INSECTS OP KING's SOUND AND ITS VICINITY, 



acute. Elytra of the width of the thorax, nearly three times the 

 length, parallel-sided and narrowly margined. Beneath piceous. 

 Long. 3 lines, lat. 1 line. 



53. Adelotopus longipennis, n.sp. 



Elongate, reddish-brown, nitid. Thorax nearly as long as the 

 width, with the lateral margins rather broadly reflected. Elytra 

 very slightly narrower than the thorax and nearly three times 

 the length, parallel-sided and obsoletely striate and very faintly 

 punctate. Beneath pale piceous, nitid. 



Long. 3 lines, lat. 1 line. 



54. Adelotopus l^evis, n.sp. 



A very small species of almost a cylindrical form, elongate, 

 convex, smooth, very nitid and of a pale reddish-piceous colour, 

 a little darker on the head and thorax. The reflexed mai'gins are 

 rather narrow, and the elytra are slightly narrower than the 

 thorax. 



Long. 1^ line, lat. h line. 



55. Adelotopus linearis, n.sp. 



Elongate, cylindrical, the sides parallel from the head to the 

 extremity of the elytra, sub-nitid. Head black, very round and 

 convex in front. Thorax black, longer than the width, scarcely 

 broader than the head, the lateral margins much reflected, but not 

 very wide, the apex and base both truncate. Elytra black at the 

 base, the remainder of a dark red, narrow and elongate. 



Long. 2^ lines, lat. f line. 



Sub-Family SCARITIDES. 



56. Carenoscaphus vihidissimus, n.sp. 



Elongate, metallic green, very nitid. Head black, nearly 

 square, the frontal canals diverging behind. Thorax very little 

 broader than the head, longer than broad, sub-truncace at the apex^ 



