BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 477 



CC. Clothed with close short pubescence difficilis. 



AA. Prosternum abnormal 



B. Head coppery paradoxa 



BB. Head bright green minor. 



Edusoides, gen.nov. 



Corpus oblongum, plus minus sat longe pubescens. Caput 

 subverticale usque ad oculos thoraci insertum, oculis subintegris. 

 Antennae corporis dimidio subbreviores, articulis 5 ultimis monili- 

 formibus. Prothorax fortiter transversus, lateribus integris. 

 Scutellum sat transversum, quinquangulum. Elytra haud costata. 

 Prosternum sat latum postice dilatatum truncatum, episternis 

 autice vix perspicue convexis. Femora inermia, medio sat fortiter 

 dilatata. Tibiae validse, breves, simplices, apice externe fortiter 

 dentatae. Tarsi robusti (maris ' posticorum 4 articulo primo valde 

 dilatato). Unguiculi appendiculati, divaricati. 



The following species cannot be referred to any hitherto charac- 

 terised genus known to me ; I am therefore compelled to find a 

 new name for it. Although its facies is decidedly suggestive of 

 Edusia, its place in Dr. Chapuis' classification would be difficult 

 to assign, as the front margin of the prosternal episterna is so 

 slightly convex and its inner angle so very slightly marked that I 

 question whether the insect could be placed in the Edusites; the 

 hinder tibise are not emarginate externally, the claws are appen- 

 diculate and the sides of the prothorax are entire. 



Edusoides pulcher, sp.nov. 



(J. — Oblongus; minus nitidus ; supra alutacius ; viridis, aureo- 

 micans ; labro, palpis, antennis (his apicem versus infuscatis), 

 pedibusque, testaceis ; capite confuse minus subtiliter, prothorace 

 sparsius subtilius, elytris obscure crassius, punctulatis ; subtus sat 

 nitidus, aureo-viridis^ longe minus crebre pubescens, metasterno 



