46 f''"i>'' 



division of tlie eye into two portions is a cliaracter equally uncertain ; 

 the eye, undivided in all the Australian species (included in my 

 experience), in quadricorne from Java, Malacca, &c., and in others 

 (undescribed) from Borneo, Batchian, &c., is, in nine or ten other 

 Eastern species (to my knowledge), and in all the African species, 

 completely divided. Toxicum must now be regarded as a less homo- 

 geneous and more widely dispersed genus, having grande, Pascoe, and 

 the species just described, at its two extremities. 



EPITOXICUM, g. 11. 



9 . Head short, broadly rounded in front ; epistoma short, deflexed in front, 

 distinctly projecting beyond the sides of the front ; labrum very prominent ; anten- 

 nary orbits expanded, and extending nearly to the hind margin of the eyes ; eyes conti- 

 gnoiis to the prothorax, strongly divided, the upper portion broadly oval ; tlie margin 

 within each eye thickened and slightly elevated in the middle, forming a slight 

 tubercle, which does not inpinge on — or break the margin of — the eye ; antennas 

 slender, joint 3 as long as 4 and 5 united ; 4 — 8 gradually shoi'ter, obconic ; 9 — 11 

 abruptly expanded and enlarged, forming a distinct, elongate club, 9 and 10 being 

 longer than wide, sub-cupuliform ; 11 rounded ; prothorax nearly square, slightly 

 longer than wide, slightly naiTower at apex than at base, apex feebly emarginate, 

 base feebly sinuate ; basal angles a little produced, and outwardly directed ; elyti-a 

 decidedly wider than the prothorax, the inner edge of the base distinctly grooved — 

 immediately before the humeral angle — to receive the hind angles of prothorax ; 

 liumeral angle rounded ; epipleural fold narrow, abruptly expanded at the shoulders ; 

 legs slender ; femora elongate ; tarsi elongate, slender, the 1st joint of the hind pair 

 longer than the two following united. 



Of all the described species of Toxicum this genus most resembles 

 T. cornutnm, Fisch. ; but it is abundantly distinct by the shorter and 

 differently formed head, the eyes contiguoiis to the prothorax, and 

 differently formed above, the longer, squarer, and much narrower 

 prothorax, the epipleural fold abruptly expanded at the shoulders, 

 the longer and thinner antennae, and the very elongate femora. 



1^ unknown. 



EpITOXICUM HAPLATfDEOIDES, Sp. n. 



$ . Nai-row, elongate ; chocolate-brown, opaque ; front concave, studded with 

 large punctui-cs, the punctuation on the sides and epistoma smaller and shallower ; 

 prothorax closely studded with deep, round punctures ; scutellum indistinctly punc- 

 tiilate ; elytra very closely and iiTegular]y seriate-punctate, the seriate arrangement 

 being little more than indicated, especially at the sides ; the intervals very narrow, 

 sub-convex, and more or less coniluent ; flanks of prothorax and sterna not closely 

 punctured, the punctiu*es large ; epipleural fold impunctate ; abdomen and legs 

 finely, and not very closely, punctured ; legs and abdomen dark chcstniit-brown, 

 shining. Length, 3] lin. ; width of elytra, 1^ liu. 



Hab. : East India ; one example. 



