522 H. S. GORHAM 



This genus is of a rounder and more Ooccinellid form than 

 usual in this family, if we except Panomaea and Cremnodes. 

 The antennae are moderately long, their second joint not very 

 short, nearly equal to the third, and equal in length to the 

 fourth , the sixth , seventh and eighth are equal in length and 

 not much widened, being fusiform ; the three apical joints form 

 a lax club. The thorax is as wide as the elytra at their base, 

 smooth and even with faintly impressed basal sulci , and very 

 finely margined sides and front. The elytra are nearly as wide 

 as long and convex, their surface smooth, but impressed with 

 several series of deep punctures. Legs short. 



In the structure of the labial palpi and in the general form 

 this genus has some affinity with the American genus Acinaces. 



Frivaldsky has described a genus DnjadUes (Természetrajzi 

 Fiizetek, vol. VI, 1882) for an insect from Borneo, to which 

 this genus must be allied, it seems to differ in the shorter pro- 

 sternum, and laxer club of the antennae. 



8. Beccaria papuensis. 



Breviter ovata, ìiigra nitida, ore pedibusque piceis, elytris convexis 

 remote punctulatis, pimctis ad basin et juxta suturam seriebus 

 quatuor haud regiUariter digestis, externe et postice confusis ; sin- 

 gulis maculis diiabus sanguineis, una humerali quadrata, ima 

 subapicali punctifoi-mi. Long. 4 ^2 — 5 millim. 



Hab. New Guinea, Ramoi (Beccari). Sorong (Coll. Bruijn). 



Wholly black with the exception of the spots on the elytra 

 and that the mouth and legs are pitchy , and that this pitchy 

 tint extends over the underside of the body, in one example the 

 abdomen is quite pitchy. The head and thorax are scarcely vi- 

 sibly punctured, the punctures when visible under a very strong 

 lens being minute, the front angles of the thorax are acute, a 

 little depressed, the front margin not deeply excavated, the sides 

 narrow from the base, and the hind angles are acute, the base 

 sinuate. Scutellum impunctate and shining. Elytra evenly wide- 

 ned from the base, with the margin a little but very distinctly 



