BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 469 



79. DiAPHOROMERUS PORCATULUS, n.Sp. 



Elongate-ovate, black, nitid, elytra bluish-black. Head as in 

 preceding species, antennae reaching the base of the thorax, of a 

 reddish colour. Palpi also reddish, rather obtusely pointed. 

 Thorax wider than the head, much wider than long, much rounded 

 on the sides and posterior angles, the base rather narrower than 

 the apex, the median line and basal depressions well marked, and 

 a broad transverse depression near the base. Elytra scarcely if 

 at all wider than the thorax, and over three times the length, 

 very strongly striate or grooved, the interstices convex, the short 

 basal stria longer than usual, and not running into the first stria ; 

 the first four interstices from the suture are marked with punc- 

 tures, very irregular as to the numbers. Legs dark piceous, thighs 

 slightly swollen, the anterior tarsi of the male very slightly 

 dilated. The female is wider in the body. 



Long. 5 lines, lat. ^ lines. 



80. DiAPHOROMERUS OPACUS, n.Sp. 



Oblong-ovate, black, subnitid, the elytra opaque and of a 

 brownish-black. Head small, clypeus a little emarginate, lab ram 

 short, palpi reddish, rather acutely pointed, antennae also red, the 

 terminal joints pubescent. Thorax wider than long, the anterior 

 angles slightly prominent, the sides a little rounded behind them, 

 very little narrowed to the base which is rather wider than the 

 apex, the posterior angles almost rectangular. Elytra wider than 

 the thorax, and nearly three times the length, covered with a very 

 minute greyish pubescence as in some species of Chlcenius, very 

 finely striate, the interstices flat, the short basal stria running 

 parallel and close to the second stria. Legs pale yellow, the first 

 four joints of the four anterior tarsi of the male, enlarged, scarcely 

 dilated. 



Long. 3 lines, lat. \\ line. 



