466 THE INSECTS OF KINg's SOUND AND ITS VICINITY, 



depression on each side close to the clypeal suture, and another 

 larger at the sides of the clypeus, the palpi reddish-yellow, the 

 antennjE with the first joint pale red, the second, third, fourth 

 and fifth brownish, the remainder reddish. Thorax a little wider 

 than the head, and a little wider than the length, the apex almost 

 truncate, the base scarcely wider than the apex and quite trun- 

 cate, the sides lightly rounded and the angles obtuse ; the median 

 line and basal depressions not profoundly marked. Elytra wider 

 than the thorax and nearly three times the length, strongly striate, 

 the interstices smooth and very slightly convex, a short stria near 

 the scutelhim of about three times the length of it, on the inter- 

 stice between the first and second striae and not running quite 

 into either of them, the apex of the elytra very slightly sinuate. 

 Under surface and legs piceous, the first four joints of the four 

 anterior tarsi strongly dilated in the male, the fourth joint bilobed, 

 the anterior thighs short, thick, and somewhat compressed. 



Long. 4 lines, lat. 1^ line. 



75. DiAPHOROMERUS SEXPUNCTATUS, n.Sp. 



Elongate-ovate, black, nitid. Head as in the last species, the 

 antenna and palpi piceous red, the third joint of the former 

 longer than the following. Thorax nearly square, the angles 

 rounded, the sides a litt'e rounded, the median canal and the 

 basal depressions slight. Elytra very slightly bronzy, not wider 

 than the thorax, very slightly ampliated from the humeral 

 angles, three times the length of the thorax, striate, and the 

 interstices flat, with the short basal stria running out into the first 

 stria at about one-seventh of the length, and with six well-impressed 

 punctures on the third interstice, commencing about one-fifth of 

 the length from the base, and extending to the very apex at 

 nearly equal distances. Body beneath and legs piceous, the 

 thighs thick and compressed, the four first joints of the four 

 anterior tarsi dilated in the male. 



Long. 4^ lines, lat. 1| line. 



