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inwardly ; antennae 10-jointed, the sixth joint is dilated and cup- 

 shape, the seventh is compressed and fits closely against the first 

 joint of the club, which is somewhat bristly, not as long as the whole 

 pedicel ; head and prothorax as in Hypopholis, but with the basal 

 part of the latter densely hairy above the scutellum ; scutellum 

 cordate, broader than long ; elytra slightly broader than the 

 prothorax, and sub-angular at the shoulders, sinuate laterally before 

 the middle and moderately ampliated thence towards the posterior 

 part, but much less rounded there than in Hypopholis, depressed 

 and plainly callose in the posterior declivity, covering the greatest 

 part of the propygidium, non-costate but with the suture plainly 

 raised ; pygidium sub-vertical, somewhat broadly arcuate ; abdominal 

 segments soldered, and clothed, like the pygidial part, with short, 

 appressed hairs which are denser and longer on the pectus ; meso- 

 sternum simple ; tarsi moderately long, anterior tibiae bi-dentate 

 outwardly, and without an inner spur, teeth of claws long, mode- 

 rately arcuate, angular at the base, and having at a short distance 

 from the base a sub-vertical, slightly hamate tooth under each claw. 

 Plainly allied to Hypopholis, but differing mainly by the structure 

 of the claws and the simple mesosternum. The genital armature is 

 also of a different type altogether. 



Pegylidius mashunus, n. spec, 

 Plate XLIII, fig. 37. 



Eeddish-brown, with a faint bronze sheen forming on the elytra 

 faint, irregular macules of that hue, antennae and palpi flavescent, 

 under-side chestnut-brown ; clypeus semicircular, divided from the 

 head by a plain, transverse impressed line, both head and prothorax 

 very finely punctulate and with a minute hair in each puncture ; 

 prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, hardly attenuated laterally 

 from the median part to the sharp basal angle, but strongly narrowed 

 from the middle to the sharp apical angle, anterior part straight in 

 the middle, basal one strongly Insinuate and densely hairy above the 

 scutellum, decidedly convex in the central part, and with the outer 

 sides slightly depressed, not deeply punctured, the punctures divided 

 by finely aciculate intervals wider than their own diameter ; scu- 

 tellum cordate, broader than long, aciculate and punctate ; elytra 

 deeply punctured and with the intervals equal in diameter to the 

 punctures themselves, but slightly raised and plainly aciculate, each 

 puncture bears a minute greyish hair, and there is no trace of costule, 

 the humeral callosity is hardly visible, but the posterior one is con- 

 spicuous ; propygidium and pygidium clothed with greyish, fine 



