70 M. L. Peringuey [s Third Contribution [March 30, 



plicated with a median groove ; prothorax much raised above the 

 elytra, depressed, and with the outer sides produced in an acute tooth 

 surrounded] by a few short bristles (the angle less acute in the female), . 

 punctulated and slightly grooved in the centre ; elytra narrower at 

 the base than the prothorax, elongated, much inflated past the middle, 

 convex, rounded behind and distinctly striated ; underside and legs 

 very scaly. 



Gen. Stigmatotrachelus. Schonh. 



333. S. placidus. spec. nov. 



Elongato-ovatus, niger, squamis albidis variegatus ; rostro quinque- 

 carinato, capite in medio profunde canaliculate ; prothorace 

 sub-cylindrico ; elytris ovatis, postice valde compressis, foveolato- 

 seriatis. 



Long. 11-12, lat. 4-4^ mm . 



Elongate-ovate, black besprinkled with small whitish, opaline scales^ 

 denser underneath and on the legs; rostrum with five raised lines, 

 separated from the head by a deep transverse impression ; head with 

 a median longitudinal groove ; prothorax nearly as broad as long, 

 sub-cylindrical, very closely punctured ; elytra ovate, very acutely 

 compressed behind, perpendicularly declivous at the apex, and covered 

 with regularfseries of deep foveas ; tibise slightly pilose. 



Gen. Ellimenistes. Schonh. 



334. E. ostentatus. spec, nov. 



JViger, dense griseo-squamosus, elytris macula supr a-hum er all 

 fasciisque angustis duabus brunneis in singulo notatis ; rostro 

 capiteque in medio profunde canaliculatis^ oculis sub-cristatis ; 

 prothorace angusto, medio lateribusque longitudinaliter canaliculatis ; 

 elytris basi truncatis, ovatis, humeris dentatis, valde convexi i 

 posticeque acuminatis, costatis, interstitiis bifarian punctatis ; tibiis 

 posticis intus crenatis. 



Black, densely covered with greyish scaly tomentum, with a 

 brownish spot on each side of the base and two transverse ill-defined 

 narrow streaks on the elytra, the first one at about the middle, the 

 second one near the top of the postical declirity ; antennas with the 

 scapus thick ; head and rostrum with a very deep median longitudinal 



