BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 857 



the middle equal to, the posterior shorter than, their respective 

 tibiae. The hind legs scarcely differ from those of Pimelopus, 

 except in net having two distinct carinae on the tibipe and having 

 slightly longer tarsi with the 2nd joint not dilated. The pro- 

 sternum in front of the anterior coxae consists of an elongate 

 shining triangular plate, the wide end of which is directed forward, 

 the narrow end entering between the coxse. The propygidium 

 is squamosely punctulate at the side.s, delicately transversely 

 wrinkled in the middle ; this transverse wrinkling may perhaps 

 be feeble means of stridulation. The pygidium bears a system of 

 very faint but not very fine puncturation which is more obsolete 

 in the middle than at the sides. 



P. BoviLLi, sp.nov. 



Nitidus ; valde convexus, latitudine majori pone medium p )sita; 

 totiis rufo-castaneus ; supra (clypeo labroque exceptis) glaber ; 

 clypeo sparsim, prothorace vix evidenter, elytris sparsim obsolete 

 crasse, punctulatis ; his oblique obsolete 4-costatis, striS, suturali 

 fortiter irapressa ; suhtus longe nee dense pubescens. 



[Long. 12 lines, lat. 7 lines. 



The entire in.sect is of a chestnut red color, a little paler on the 

 underside. The labrum is clothed rather thickly with long hairs. 

 The clypeus is nearly twice as wide as long, and is sparingly beset 

 with small sharply defined ])unctures, each of which bears a long 

 hair. The head behind the ciypeus is very short. The prothorax 

 is abovit a third as wide again as loriEf, its anterior margin gently 

 concave and about half the width of tlie base, the sides viewed from 

 above seeming to diverge very sti ongly from the small acute anterior 

 angles, and tluMi run round with a very feeble curve to the base, 

 which is rather strongly Insinuate, the hind angles being .scarcely 

 defined, but when viewed from the side the lateral margins are 

 seen in reality tj form an even and strong curve ; there is a 

 scarcely traceable impression at the middle of the disc near the front 

 margin, and in my specimen a series (very probably abnormal) of 



