170 MEGALOCARIA. 



Callicaria superba. 



Caria superba, Mids. Mon. p. 1G7. 2 (T). 



Bright brownish-red, legs pale yellow, body black, sides of 

 abdomen yellowish; thorax with an oblong black spot on either 

 side the scutellum, which is also black ; elytra each with seven 

 black spots, 1 on the callus, 3 transversely before the middle, the 

 outer one reaching the margin, transverse, 3 at about two-thirds, 

 forming a band concave towai-ds the apex. L. 5 lin. India. This 

 species is very distinct by the form of its thorax. 



Megalocaria. 



Crotch, Cat. Cocc. p. 6 (typ, Reichii). 



Form of Pelina. Punctuation hardly visible with a lens, 

 elytra minutely alutaceous, opaque; thoracic epipleorse impressed, 

 but without a defined fovea; mesosternum deeply semicircularly 

 emarginate ; prosternum without raised lines ; elytral epipleune 

 very broad and not attenuate at the apex ; elytra iinmarginate. 

 Scutellum with four or five deep punctures. 



Megalocaria Reichii. 



Neda Eeichii, Mills. Spec, p 285. 10 (T). 



Carta miranda, Muls. Mon. p. 168. 4 (T). 



Java. This fine species has been twice described by Mulsant. 



Megalocaria iniirmata.* 



Caria infirmata, Mids. Mon. p. 1G7. 3 (T). 



Closely resembling M. Eeichii, but smaller, thorax with a 

 quadrate spot at the anterior angles, and the anterior margins 

 narrowly yellowish, more transverse, angles more rounded; elytra 

 with a black margin, a short basal vitta on the callus, a transverse 

 fascia at two-thirds, reaching the suture and running up to the 

 scutellum, and another at two-thirds, bent at right angles. L. 5 

 lin. Java (Berlin). 



Megalocaria Pearsoni, sp. n. 



Hemispherical, elytra broadly flattened at the margins; black, 

 sides of ventral segments testaceous, impunctate ; head black, 

 coarsely punctate ; thorax with anterior angles acuminate, sides 

 broadly ochreous, leaving a central triangle black (the apex of this 

 is truncate, being the base of the anterior emargination) ; elytra 

 orange, suture narrowly black, dilated into a rectangular tooth at 

 one-third, each with five spots ; 1 elongate-oval, small, from the 

 base to the callus: 3 forming a transverse range (concave forwards) 



