BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 195 



future and a depressed space on each side, broadest at the base and 

 running out before the apex, with two fine carina? in them. The 

 tooth on the inside of the fore tibiae is very large. 

 Length, 2 lines. 



Family. ANTHRIBID^E. 



172. Xexocerus arciferus. Blanch. 

 Voy. Pole. Sud., IV., 1853, p. 196, PL 13, fig. 4. 



173. Litocerus perplexus. Pascoe. 

 Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, Vol. V., p. 47. 



174 Litocerus fasciatus. n. sp. 



Black or dark brown, densely covered except in a few places 

 with a short ashen grey pubescence, the bare places being, the 

 rostrum, two broad lateral vitta3 and some small spots on the disk 

 of the thorax, two round spots near the base, the outer the smallest, 

 a patch near the middle of the lateral margin, a wavy fascia behind 

 the middle, and two small spots near the apex on each elytron, and 

 a large spot on the side of metasternum. The elytra are lightly 

 striate-punctate. The pubescence under the eye and on the sides 

 of the sterna is snowy white, the legs are of a very pale red. 



Length, 5 lines. 



175. Litocerus parvulus. n. sp. 



Black, clothed with a very short silky greyish or pale drab 

 pubescence with the exception of the humeral angle, four small 

 spots placed transversely near the base, two very minute near the 

 suture a little behind these, a broad fascia about the middle not 

 reaching the suture and extending on each side on the under surface, 

 and one or two very small spots between that and the apex. 



Length, 3^ lines. 



176 Litocerus subconvexus. n. sp. 



This species should perhaps be placed in another genus. It is 

 more rounded and convex than the others, and has a remarkably 



