124 Christmas Island, 



87. iEgocidnus exiguus, Gahan, sp.n. (PI. XI, Fig. 4.) 



Parvus, capite testaceo vel fusco pube grisea tenuiter vestito ; 

 prothorace griseo - pubescente, fusco - maculato, lateraliter paullo 

 pone medium spina brevi antice obliqua armato ; elytris sat fortiter 

 punctatis, rufo - brunneis, pube grisea, plagis f uscis interrupta, 

 vestitis ; antennis testaceis, quam corpore sesqui-longioribus, articulo 

 40 quam 3° vel 5^ distincte longiori, articulo 3'^ quam 1° vix 

 longiori, articulis 6° et sequentibus gradatim brevioribus. 



Long. 3-5-4, lat. 1*25- 1 '5 mm. 



Head dark brown or reddish brown in colour, covered with a 

 thin greyish pubescence. Antennae about half as long again as the 

 body, with the fourth joint, which is the longest, distinctly longer 

 than the third or fifth, and the third joint scarcely longer than the 

 first. Prothorax armed a little behind the middle of each side with 

 a short spine, the posterior face of which stands out almost at right 

 angles, while the anterior face is oblique and continuous with 

 the side of the prothorax in front of it. Elytra rather strongly 

 punctured, with the punctures for the most part irregularly placed, 

 but towards the sides of the disk, having a tendency to be arranged 

 in longitudinal rows ; reddish brown in colour, with a covering of 

 grey pubescence, which is interrupted by a number of dark -brown 

 patches. (In one of two specimens there is a large and conspicuous 

 dark-brown patch placed towards the side on the middle of each 

 elytron). Legs pale testaceous, with the thickened part of the 

 femora more or less infuscate. 



Two examples taken on the north coast of the island ; one in 

 Jilarch, the other in December. 



This species resembles iEgocidnus ignarus, Pasc, in colour, but 

 it is smaller in size, and differs from it also in the shape of the 

 lateral spine of its prothorax, and in the relative proportions of the 

 first, third, and fifth joints of the antennce. 



Eamily EUMOLPID^. 



88. Rhyparida rossi, Gahan, sp.n. 



Testacea, elytris antennis pedibus et abdomine pallidioribus ; 

 ■capite subtilissime granuloso et opaco, sparse minutissime punc- 

 tulato ; prothorace transverse, lateraliter rotundato, angulis anticis 

 p)0sticisque minute dentato, disco sub - opaco sparse minuteque 

 punctulato ; elytris nitidis fortiter seriatimque punctatis ; antennis 

 articulo 3^ quam 2^ fere triple longiore, articulo 4° quam 3° paullo 

 breviore, ceteris gradatim decrescentibus. 



Long. 7, lat. 3*5 mm. 



Keddish testaceous in colour, with the elytra, legs, antennae, 

 and abdomen somewhat paler or more fulvous. Head very minutely 



