ELATERIDES NOUVEAUX,

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MEGAPENTHES TAENIATUS. — Obscure testaceus, opacus, fulvopilosus;
fronte depressa, fortiter punctata; antennis obscuris;
prothorace latitudine haud longiore, a basi angustalo, crebre
fortiter que punctato; elytris depressiusculis, punctato-striatis,
interstitiis crebre punctatis, nigris, vitta lata flava; corpore
subtus obscuro, pedibus flavis. —Long. 7, lat. fere 2 mill.
Cuba; la Havane.
Communique par M. le docteur Gundlach.
MEGAPENTHES CORROSUS. — Niger, opacus, breviter pilosulus;
fronte lata, convexa, punctata; antennis brunneis; prothorace
crasso, creberrime for titer que punctato, angulis posticis retrorsum
productis, bicarinatis; elytris punctatosubstriatis, interstitiis
granulatis, basi ferrugineo-submaculatis; pedibus
brunneis. — Long. 13, lat. 3 3 /4 mill.
Bengale.
MEGAPENTHES AGROTUS. — Brunneus, opacus, tenuiter pubescens;
antennis nigris; prothorace latitudine longiore, postice
subparallelo, convexo, creberrime subtiliter punctato, angulis
posticis retrorsum productis bicarinatis, sutura postice rufescente;
elytris prothoracis latitudine, brevibus, parallelis, apice
integris, punctato-striatis, interstitiis granulatis, basi rufescentibus;
epipleuris rufo-flavis. — Long. 8-9, lat. fere 2 mill.
Cambodje.
MEGAPENTHES LINEARIS. — Augustus, linearis, rufo-testaceus,
subopacus, subtiliter pubescens; fronte basi nigricante; prothorace
latitudine longiore, lateribus parallelis, punctato, angulis
posticis haud divaricatis, unicarinatis ; elytris prothorace duplo
longioribus, linearibus, punctato-striatis, apice integris. —
Long. 5, lat. 1 mill.
Darjeeling.
MEGAPENTHES JUNCEUS. — Testaceo-ferrugineus, nitidus, flavo-