4^ ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, 



the elytra have several raised hut ill-defined striae. The mandibles 

 and legs of this insect present characters which induce me to 

 believe it widely different from any genus hitherto described : the 

 remarkable structure of the mandibles — elongate, curved, keeled 

 above, and terminated, one in an acute point, the other in a bifid 

 apex — is sufficiently shown in the cut : the figure of the legs is 

 more difficult to express by an outline; all the tibiae have a 

 channel extending on the upper side nearly throughout their 

 length ; the protibiae are curved, and the extremities somewhat 

 incrassated ; the mesotibiae are somewhat twisted, flattened and 

 dilated in the middle, and the metatibias have a similar character ; 

 but the dilatation is nearer the base of the joint : the entire under 

 surface of both meso- and metatibiae is clothed with a dense pilosity 

 of a golden brown colour ; this pilosity also clothes the tarsi, 

 interrupted only by a longitudinal glabrous line. 

 Inhabits Algoa Bay, on the coast of Africa. Presented by 

 Mr. Bowerbank. 



Genus. — Distichocera, Kirhy. 



Dist. fulvipennis. Antennce nigrce: caput nigrum, frontefulw: 

 prothorax niger, lineis 2 dorsalibiis, longitudinalibus, latis, 

 fulms : scutellum nigrum : elytra fulva : abdomen piceum, 

 lanugine argentea vestitum : pedes picei. (Corp. long. *9 unc. ; 

 lat. -3 unc.) 



Antennae black : head black, with the forehead fulvous : prothorax 

 black, with two broad, longitudinal, dorsal, fulvous lines : scutel- 

 lum black : elytra fulvous : the abdomen piceous, and clothed 

 beneath with a silvery down : the legs are piceous. 

 Inhabits New Holland, Several specimens were taken at 



Woodside, near Sydney, by Mr. Imeson, and presented by that 



gentleman. 



Genus. — Pcecilosoma, ServiUe. 



Poec. semirufum. Chalybeo-nigrum punctum, elytris pundis 

 ferrugineis. (Corp. long. '9 unc. ; lat. '4 unc.) 



Entirely opaque, black, slightly tinged with indigo, the elytra only 

 excepted, which are ferruginous : the prothorax has an indistinct 

 tooth on each side, not acute as in P.Jlammiger of Perty ; its 

 disk is covered with punctures, except a small space in the centre ; 

 the scutellum is black, punctured on each side, but smooth in the 

 middle : the elytra are thickly punctured throughout. 



Inhabits Brazil. Presented by Mr. Walker. 



