226 [March, 



Hab. : Sarawak. 



Body clothed beneath with griseous hairs. Head prominent, smooth, impunc- 

 tate, glabrous, face short. Thorax three times as broad as long, sides straight and 

 parallel, faintly sinuate before the middle, all the angles acute ; upper surface trans- 

 versely convex, transversely excavated on the hinder disc, surface smooth, impunctate, 

 sides very sparingly clothed with a few long, scattered, erect hairs. Scutellum pi- 

 ceous. Elytra broader than the thorax, sub-elongate, the sides parallel, surface 

 coarsely rugose, clothed with sub-erect griseous hairs. 



Genus CABITSECA. 



Corpus elonfjatum, modice convexmn. Caput exsertiim ; antennis 

 corpore fere cequilongis ^ ,hreviorihus '^ ,JiIiformibifs, modice rohustis, 

 ai'ticuJis 1^° et W-'^^hrevissimis^cequalihus; encarpis mnqnis,suhquadratis, 

 contiguis ; carina lineari ; oculis magnis, valde prominent ibus, ro- 

 tundatis. Thorax transversus, dorso transversim excavatus. Scutellum 

 elongafo-trir/onatum. Elytra thorace latiora,parallela, apice conjunctim 

 rotundata, confuse punctata. Pedes modice rohusti, simplices ; coxis 

 anticis exsertis, siibconicis, apicefere contiguis ; tihiis posticis quatuor 

 apice spina acuta armatis ; tarsorum posticorum articulo basali trihns 

 sequentibus longitudine fere cequali ; U7iguiculis appendiculatis. Pro- 

 sternum angustissimum, acetabulis anticis integris. 



Type — Caritheca qnadripustulata. 



This genus ought to stand near Haplosonyx. 



CARITnECA QrADEIPUSTITLATA. 



Elongata, parallela, dorso modice convexa, sordide alba, nitida, 

 suhtus piceo plus minusve tincta, vertice, antennis (articulis prima et 

 ultimo exceptis), tlioracis vittd lata, scutelloque nigris, pectore obscure 

 metallico-purpureo ; elytris confuse, subfortifer punctatis, singulatim 

 maculis duabus transversim ovatis, una ante altera pone medium p)ositis, 

 Havo-alhis, .ornatis. Long. 4 li7i. 



Hab. : Sumatra. 



Head cxserted, face concave between the eyes, vertex very sparingly punctured ; 

 joints of antennae cylindrical, basal joints scarcely thickened, sUghtly convex ; en- 

 carpsc well defined. Thorax nearly three times as broad as long ; anterior margin 

 concave-emarginate in the middle, obliquely truncate on either side ; sides straight 

 and parallel, slightly dilated before the middle, hind angles nearly rectangular, the 

 anterior obtuse ; upper surface very slightly convex transversely, coarsely punctured, 

 transversely excavated across the middle, the excavation not extending to the sides, 

 less deeply impressed in the centre. Scutellum trigonate, longer than broad. Elytra 

 broader than the thorax, moderately convex, coawclv and deeply punctured. 



