( G:iG ) 



Pedes iiigiobiunnei, femorum tibiarumque basi ac tarsorum aiticulo ])rimo (basi 

 extrema exclusa) ruiis flavesceuti-oiuereo-puliesceiitibus. 



Long. 5| mm., rostr. IJ, elytr. 4^, lat. 3. 



Hob. Batjan (W. Doherty). 



Litocerus liti;jiosHs I'ascoe from New (iiiiiioa is a similar species, the innU 

 sex of which has the sixth to eleventh joints of the antennae almost equal in bre.itlth; 

 in both sexes of that species the four basal joints of the antennae are rufous, the 

 prothorax has a spot on each side of the disc, the lineolae of the elytra are longer 

 and more confluent with one another, there Ijeing an almost cruciform mark behind 

 the scutellum, and an irregular ring on the disc of each elytron. 



Litoceraa marginellua Pasc. and ecmveryens Pasc. have likewise two si)iniform 

 tubercles on the metasternum in the viale sex. 



Cedus Pascoe {Ann. Mag. N. H. (3), v., p. 37, 1860). 



Pachygeiua Motsch. (Bull. Mosc, 48, p. 233, 1.572) is synonymous with CedthS 

 Pasc. 



Pachygenia imphiviata Motsch. (I.e., p. 234) is identical with Cedus guttatus 

 Pasc. (I.e., p. 38), whereas Pachygenia gidtulata jNlotsch. (I.e., p. 237) is distinct 

 from, though closely allied to, Cedios guullatua Pasc. 



59. Cedus antennalis sp. nov. 



cf ?. A Cedo giMato V&sc. rostro breviore apice excepto dense albo-imbescente, 

 carinulis dorsalibus lateralibus retrorsum levissime convergentibus ; antennis articulo 

 primo multo breviore (c?), decimo in utroque sexu brevissimo, hoc et ultimo baud 

 albis; prothorace densius subtiliusque ruguloso-punctato, cum elytris paucis guttis 

 griseis notato ; pygidio multo breviore ; corpore infra lateribus baud nigro-maculato 

 distinguendus. 



Hab. Perak (type, c?, ? ), and Celebes ( ? ). 



The tenth joint of the antennae is short in this species, whereas it is at least as 

 long as the eleventh in the other species of Cedus. 



Afrocedus gen. nov. 



6. Eo.strum planum, baud carinatum, latitudine non longius, a basi ad medium 

 gradatim dilatatum, deinde ad apicem usque angustatum, hoc modo lateribus intra 

 antennas angulatum. Antennae (S) corpore multo longiores, articulis primo et 

 secundo crassis, jirimo pyriformi oculos subattingente, 3° ad 8"'" singulatim et nono 

 et undecimo paulo breviore. Oculi obliqui, supra minus quam infra rotundati, antice 

 contigui. 



Type : A. epistemcUis sp. nov. 



To be placed after CediiM Pasc. 



60. Afrocedus episternalis sj). nov. 



(J. ^1. niger, pube cinerea sat sparsim vestitus, genis, linea mediana angusta 

 prothoracis, gutta suturali antemediana ac duobus punctis ^wstmedianis in stria secunda 

 elytrorum sitis dense, episternis metasterni densissime albo-cinereis. 



Kostrum dense punctulatum ; antennae corpore longiores. Prothorax longitudine 

 duplo latior, densissime ruguloso-imnctatus, dorso pone apicem jiarum transverse 



