BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 189 



important characters of this genus : form broad and robust (like 

 tljat of Gerynassa, Dicomada, &c.) ; rostrum moderately long and 

 robust, very distinctly distinguished from the general contour of 

 the head, compressed towards the apex when viewed from the 

 side ; eyes finely granulated ; antennae inserted in front of the 

 middle of the rostrum, their funicle 7-jointed, their scrobes 

 running obliquely towards the lower extremity of the eye ; ocular 

 lobes feebly defined ; base of prothorax not bisinuate ; prosternum 

 elongate in front of its coxse, its front margin moderately emar- 

 ginate ; mesosternum wide between the intermediate coxae ; 2nd 

 ventral segment at least as long as the 3rd and 4th together ; 

 femora unarmed ; anterior tibiae not denticulate within, their inner 

 apex mucronate; tarsi short and broad, their claw joint projecting 

 moderately beyond the 3rd. 



Cydmcea seems to be very close to Dicomada ; Mr. Pascoe 

 mentions no other difference than that the rostrum of the latter 

 is dilated at the apex and not compressed. The following species 

 present all the characters of Cydmcea as described, but it should 

 be noted that Mr. Pascoe figures it (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1875, t. 1, 

 fig. 15) as devoid of ocular lobes. 



Cydm.ea major, sp.nov. 



Late ovalis ; squamis fusco-nigris cinereis fulvisque intermixtis 

 vestita, pedibus antenuisque plus minusve rufescentibus ; 

 rostro prothorace sublongiori ; funiculi articulo 1° quam 2"^ 

 paulo iongiori ; prothorace leviter transverso ; elytris punc- 

 tulato-striatis, interstitiis vix convexis. 



[Long. 2i-3, lat. U-l| lines. 

 At once distinguishable from the previously described species 

 by its considerably greater size. The variously coloured scales are 

 very confusedly mixed together ; on the elytra, however, the 

 darker scales predominate on the front half and the lighter on the 

 hind half ; on the underside the fulvous scales predominate and 

 have a slightly coppery gloss : the quantity of fulvous scales as 

 compared with the cinereous seems to vary a good deal ; abraded 



