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MR. H. N. EIDLEY ON THE 



medium oblique angustato, creberrime subtiliter punctulato ; 

 elytris thoracis basi perparum latioribus, subtiliter striate- puuc- 

 tatis, interstitiis parce subtilius punctatis, parce pubesceutibus, 

 seriatim squamulato-setosis ; antennia pedib usque sordide tes- 

 taceis. 



Long. 2 millim. 



Head distinctly visible from above ; concave in front in one sex. 

 Eyes coarsely granular, widely separated above, but very slightly 

 separated below. Antennae testaceous ; funiculus 6-jointed (or 

 possihly 7)* ; the first large, subglobose ; the following joints 

 very short and transverse, gradually increasing in width ; club 

 large, 3-jointed, oval, pubescent. The thorax has a well-defined 

 margin separating the under flanks. The surface (seen through 

 a microscope) is finely coriaceous, moderately finely punctured, 

 the intervals between the punctures about equal to the diameter 

 of the punctures ; sparsely pubescent, the hairs at the front 

 margin slightly thickened. The striae of the elytra are lightly 

 impressed, but scarcely so on the disk ; the punctures in the striae 

 moderately fine and close together, the punctures on the inter- 

 stices rather smaller and moderately widely separated. Anterior 

 tibiae rather broad, with four or five small obtuse teeth on the 

 outer side, and two larger ones, one at one third from the apex, 

 the other apical. Tarsi slender. 



This insect agrees in the majority of its characters with Pyc- 

 nartlirum gracile, Eichh. (Mem. Soc. E/. d. Sci. Liege, viii. 1878, 

 p. 104). The anterior tibiae are, however, evidently different : 

 "tibiae anteriores apice extus rotundatae." The structure of the 

 antennae appears to be the same, but the club is ovate and not 

 acuminate. The elytra are punctate-striate and not crenate- 

 striate, and the punctures are round and not subquadrate, &c. 



It appears to be related to Cnesinus, Horn, but the anterior^ 

 coxae are not so widely separated. 



[It was bred from the bark of the endemic fig-tree, from a 

 specimen out of the garden of the Eesidency. — H. N. li.'] 



Platypus pahallelus, F. 

 . Two examples of this Brazilian species. 



* The joints after the first are so confused that even with the antenna 

 mounted in balsam I am not quite certain of their number. 



