peryphid^:. 55 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, glossy. Head and prothorax bronzed-green ; four first joints of the antennas rufous, G 

 the succeeding ones dusky; palpi rufous dusky at the tip; frontal impressions rather oblique: pro- 

 thorax very much constricted behind, so as to appear almost triangular, depressed at the base with a 

 transverse series of punctures ; basilar impressions small: elytra piceous faintly bronzed, with a large 

 roundish pale spot at the base, and another smaller, rather transverse one, beyond the middle ; they 

 are not furrowed, but have the usual number of rows of punctures which do not extend to the apex, 

 and the lateral one is nearly obliterated : the legs are rufous. 



iv. * Subgenus Eudromus. 

 Prothorax nearly square, with double basilar impressions. Elytra with only the disk punctured in rows. 



This subgenus differs from the other Peryphidce in having a prothorax precisely 

 resembling that of a Pcecilus, of which genus it may be regarded as the analogue 

 amongst the Subulipalpia. 



(81) 9. * Peryphus (Eudromus) nitidus. Glossy P. Eudromus. 



P. E. (nitidus J niger, nitidissimus ; supra nigro-ceneus ; elytris lavissimis, apud suturam puncto-striatis. 



Glossy P. Eudromus, black, very glossy, above bronzed; elytra very smooth, punctured in rows next the suture. 



PLATE I, FIG. 7. 

 Length of the body 3l lines. 



Two specimens taken in Lat. 54°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body linear-oblong, subdepressed, very glossy, underneath black, above black-bronzed. Head 

 triangular: frontal impressions long and rather curvilinear; scape of the antennas rufous underneath: 

 prothorax nearly square and level with curving sides ; dorsal channel nearly obsolete ; basilar impres- 

 sions double, the inner one round and rather deep, the other very slight with a little ridge between 

 it and the margin : anterior and posterior margin nearly straight : elytra with sides nearly parallel as 

 well as the apex impunctured ; a quintuple series of punctures adjoins the suture, which extends 

 very little beyond the half of the elytrum, with traces of slight furrows beyond it. 



