( G29 ) 



apiceiu) descendeute, parte infralaterali brevi ; linea media postice pai-um densius 

 pubescente. 



Ellytra retrorsum vix angustata, sat fortiter punctato-striata, interspatiis plus 

 minusve cinereis, disperse interrujjtis, lineola suturali basali cum scutello densius 

 pubescente, spatio parvo mediano ac altero anteapicali fuscis sed inconspicuis. 



Pygidium breve, rotundatum. Pedes brunnei, tibiis nifis. 



Long. 2^ mm. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. 



This species agrees generically rather well with Plintheria hicluosa Pasc, though 

 the antennae are much shorter. 



The upperside has no well-defined marking.^. 



64. Phaeocrotes pictus sp. nov. 



? . Ph. niger, pube luteo-cinerea maculatim vestitus. 



Rostrum longitudine angustius, planatum, apice dilatatum, lateribus intra 

 antennarum sulcos magnos parum rotundatum, apice medio leviter sinuatuni, 

 densissime puuctatum, punctis basi ex parte confluis, basi utrimque vitta luteo-cinerea 

 vestitum. 



Caput dense punctatum ; oculi laterales rotundi antice truncati, luteo-cinereo- 

 cincti. Antennae elytrorum basim paulo superantes, rufae, clava oblonga quatuor 

 articulis composita brunnea, articulis 1° et 2° sequentibus crassioribus sed brevioribus, 

 3° caeteris longiore, 4° tertio paulo breviore quinto multo longiore, 5°, 6°, 7° fere 

 aequalibus, 7" cinereo apice crassiore, 8° — 10° latis, 11° parum rotundato. 



Prothorax longitudine parum latior, retrorsum gradatim ampliatus, confertissime 

 ruguloso-punctatus, carina dorsali medio leviter concava lateribus versus inferum ac 

 parum versus apieem flexa, hac paiie latei'ali brevi ; vitta mediana angusta ante 

 medium interrupta, duabus vittis lateralibus antice confluis, interna medio interrupta, 

 externa medio introrsum flexa, luteo-cinereis notatus. 



Elytra prothorace paulo latiora, retrorsum baud angustata, postice rotundata, sat 

 fortiter punctato-striata, interspatiis subplanis macula semicircular! scutellari (cum 

 scutello), macula marginali basali intra striam tertiam et humerum, lineola infra- 

 humerali in interstitio 9°, macula parva subrotunda laterali mediana in interspatiis 

 7° et 9°, macula parva antemediana in intersp. 3° et 5°, altera postmediana in iisdem 

 intersp., macula anteapicali antice sinuata lineolisque nonnuUis inconspicuis dispersis 

 luteo-cinereis signata. 



Pygidium fere semicircidare, luteo-cinereum medio excepto. 



Infra lateribus densius quam medio cinereo-pubescens. Pedes rufi, tarsis 

 femoribus brunneis. 



Long. 2| mm. 



Hab. Nias Island (J. W. Thomas, 1892). 



Though this species does not agree with Phaeocrotes porcellus Pasc. in the 

 form of the eyes, it may be provisionally placed in Phaeocrotes till we know the 

 male sex. 



Note. — The Indo-Australian genera Nessiara Pasc, Apatenia Pasc, Hypseus 

 Pasc, Phloeops Lac, and Phaulimia Pasc, are closely allied to one another; 

 Lacordaire was quite right in suggesting that Phaulimia Pasc, which he placed 

 among tlie " Corrhecerides," might belong to his '• Tropiddrides %Tais." The 



