BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 613 



Syarbis fasciculatissimus, n.sp. 



Red; prothorax with a piceous tinge; elytra slightly tinged 

 with piceous beyond the middle. Head with pale scales, eyes 

 margined, between eyes subbifasciculate; prothorax with a pale 

 median and a basal vitta; a transverse row of four erect straw- 

 coloured fascicles; apex feebly bifasciculate ; scutellum densely 

 squamose; elytra with numerous (over thirty) erect fascicles as 

 on prothorax, those towards sides and apex slightly paler and 

 smaller, those on the 3rd and 5th interstices slightly larger; under 

 surface moderately densely clothed with whitish scales. 



Head constricted behind eyes, a small (apjDarently) fovea 

 between them ; eyes elliptic, strongly transverse. Rostrum 

 longer than head, punctate, widening to apex. Antennae short,, 

 thick, all the joints of funicle transverse; club very short. Pro- 

 thorax cylindrical, distinctly longer than wide; base bisinuate; 

 with large, round, regular punctures. Sciitelhcm oblong, apex 

 slightly wider than base. Elytra parallel-sided, almost twice the 

 width of prothorax; shoulders slightly oblique; seriate-punctate,, 

 punctures large, round, shallow, approximate; interstices irregular^ 

 scarcely raised ; apex w4th a feeble triangular emargination. 

 Legs moderately long; tibiae straight, with a number of small 

 teeth towards their apices. Length 5|, width 2| mm. 



i^aS.— King's Sound (Mr. W. W. Froggatt). 



This is the only recorded species having fasciculate elytra and 

 prothorax. The fascicles are usually perfectly erect, and composed 

 of from ten to twenty or thirty straw-coloured and thin scales. 

 I do not think it necessary to erect a new genus for it, as its 

 three-jointed tarsi and most of its structural features are those 

 of Syarhis. It has a more parallel outline and longer prothorax 

 than any other species in the subfamily I am acquainted with. 



Syarbis alcyone, n.sp. 



Dull brownish-red; head tinged with piceous ; under surface 

 (especially of abdomen) paler than upper. Head with small 

 rounded pale scales, denser about eyes and basal sides of rostrum 



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