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Mr. C. J. Galian on new 
Resembles very much E. lineata , Linn., but has the two 
longitudinal ridges on the disk of the prothorax more flat- 
tened and more strongly punctured, and has the elytra strongly 
enough and rather closely punctured, the punctures being 
distinctly visible to the naked eye. 
In E. lineata , Linn., the elytra are glossier and almost 
impunctate, the punctures being distant and so minute as to 
be scarcely visible except with the aid of a lens. In some 
specimens of lineata the elytra are very feebly coriaceous. 
Chevrolat seems to have regarded the specific differences 
here given as sexual ; but in this he was evidently mistaken, 
for the British Museum collection (including that of Chev- 
rolat) does not contain a single male of either species, unless 
the view to be referred to further on can be accepted as 
correct. 
Elateropsis rugosa , sp. n., ? . 
E . lineatce similis, sed minor ; elytris rugoso-punctatis ; an tennis 
fusco-ferrugineis. 
Hal . — ? 
A single female example represents this species in the 
British Museum collection. In form and style of marking 
it resembles the preceding, but is sufficiently distinguished by 
the strong rugose punctuation of the disk of the prothorax 
and of the elytra. The antennae are dark ferruginous towards 
the base, fuscous towards the apex. 
A smaller (male) specimen, of a similar style of sculpture, 
devoid of pubescent bands or markings and with black 
antennae, may possibly prove to be the male of this species. 
It also bears no indication of locality. 
Elateropsis fuliginosa, Fabr., 
In the males of this species the elytra are nitid, smooth 
(excepting a feeble rugosity towards the base), and are 
remotely and minutely punctulate. 
These remarks also apply to E . subpunctata , Chevr., and, 
with the types of the two species before me, I am unable to 
discover any difference between them except one of size. E . 
subpunctata must, I think, be regarded as identical with, or 
at most as a small variety of, fuliginosa, Fabr. It must be 
remembered that Chevrolat in describing subpunctata com- 
pared it, not with the true fuliginosa of Fabr., but with full- 
ginosa , Chevr. — quite a distinct species, to which may be 
