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emargiiiiition of the eyes, by which character the " Con-heo^rides " are principally 

 distinguished from the " Tropidc'rides vrais," is as feeble in Phnidimia Pasc. as it is 

 the case in Apatenia Pasc. 



Nessiara I'ascoe (Journ. of Ent.. i., p. CO, I8G0). 



Type of genus : Nessia didyma Pasc. {Ann. Mag. X. H. (3), iv., p. 329, 1859). 

 Nessiara histrio Pasc, N. centralis Pasc., iV. lineola Kirsch (Mitth. Miis. Dresden, 

 i., p. 54, 1877), as well as iV. sellata sp. nov. and N. optica sp. nov., and probably 

 3facrocephahi.s tra'iisversus Oliv., are allied to the type-sjiecies of the genus in having 

 the antennae and legs ciliated with loug hairs, the underside of the rostrum elevate 

 or keeled in the middle line, the prothoi-ax scarcely sinuate before the posterior angles, 

 and the elytra of a somewhat elongate shape. 



Nessiara planata Pasc. is identical ytiiXx Ploeops platypennis (Montrouz.), wliich 

 is described as a Stenocerits : we have specimens from the Moluccas, New (iuinea, and 

 \\'oodlark I. which do not specifically differ from Pascoe's type. N. deplanata Fairm. 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg.. xxvii., p. 45, 1883) is doubtless also the same .species; the 

 description, at least, fits exactly to N. platijpennis (.Montr.). 



The remaining species (iV. sceifsia Pasc.,i\'. unit uher culata ^lacl., and X. in-orata 

 Mad.) are generically identical with Apatenia viduala Pasc, all of them having the 

 rostrum sulcate in the middle on underside, the prothorax sinuate before the hind 

 angles, and the antennae and legs not pilose with long hairs. 



Ilypseus fascicuUms Pasc. is scarcely worth being generically separated from 

 Apatenia viduata Pasc. 



65. Nessiara sellata sp. nov. 



<?. N. rufa, infra nigrescens, pube griseo-fulva vestita, nigro-signata. Rostrum 

 longitndine (ante oculo.s) plus tertia parte latins, medio fortiter carinatum, carina in 

 vertice evanescente, lateribus leviter rotundatum. Oculi elongati, obliqui, antice sat 

 approximati baud contigui. Antennae prothoracis basim hand attingentes, articulo 

 3° quinto duplo longiore. 



Prothorax retrorsus parum ampliatus, carina basali dorso medio leviter sinuata 

 lateribus trans medium ascendente, ejus parte laterali fere recta ; dorso duabus lineis 

 antice magis approximatis, medio late interiii))tis, intra has lineas duobus punctis 

 medianis, lateribus quatuor punctis minutis nigris signatus ; punctulatus. Scutellum 

 ovatum, albo-cinereum. Elytra sat elongata. convexa, sutura baud impressa, pone 

 marginem basalem i)arum impressa, striato-imnctata, striis postice levissimis, interstitiis 

 1°, 3°, 5° basi et apice, 7° ac 9° totis nigro-guttatis, 9° duabus lineolis anteapicalibus, 

 duabus guttis marginalibus, una posthumerali minuta, altera antemediana majore, 

 macula suturali antice magis quam postice rotuudata longitndine parum latiore intra 

 quartas strias utrius(iue elytri nigro-velutinis, notata. 



Pygidium utrimque medio leviter dei)ressum, apice rotundatum. 



Infra pube sat longa obtecta ; femora annulo nigre.scente signata. 



Ijong. 10 mm., rostr. U, elytr. 7, lat. 4. 



JIah. Pjarrain Kiver, N. Borneo. 



(if'. Nessiara optica sp. nov. 



cj. A^. rufo-lirnnnea, pube cinerea, suiira parum fulvescente vestita, nigro-signata. 

 Rostrum (maud, excl.) longitudine duplo latius, lateribus levissime rotundatum, 



