EUSELADIA. 303 



Discotoma. 



Muls. Spec. p. 215 {typ. ornata). 

 Antenna? 10 jointed, 8-10 forming a club, claws bifid, punctua- 

 tion unequal, form hemispherical. 



Discotoma ornata. 



Discotoma ornata, Mids. Spec. p. 216. 1. (1850) (T). 

 Cayenne (Buquet), Ega (Bates). 



Vodella. 



Muls. 0])usc. in. p. 20 {typ. impressa). 

 Unaccountably placed near Anatis by Mulsant; it is very close 

 to Discotoma, with which it agrees in its bifid claws and unequal 

 punctuation, also in coloration ; the antenna? are broken in the 

 typical specimen ; the coxal fovea? semicircular, complete ; form 

 hemispherical. 



Vodella impressa. 



Vodella impressa, Muls. Op. in. 21 (1853) (T). 



Head, body beneath, and legs pale livid yellow ; thorax dark 

 brown, with the anterior angles narrowly livid; sides with an 

 impressed fovea, anterior edge margined ; elytra coloured as in 

 Disc, ornata, but the apical spot not so defined, and merged in the 

 ground colour. 



L. 2 lin. Cayenne (Deyrolle). 



Pristonema. 



Er. Arch,/. Fat. in. p. 182 (1847). 

 Antenna? 10-jointed, 3-10 dentate within, claws with a basal 

 tooth, coxal fovea? complete, covering about h the segment ; punc- 

 tuation strong, unequal. 



Pristonema coccinea. 



Pristonema coccinea, Er. Arch./. Nat. xn. p. 182 (1847) (T). 

 Oblong, short, pale cherry-red, convex, shining, thorax marked 

 on the sides with a pale spot ; labrum and antenna? black. 

 L. 2| lin. Peru (Berlin). 



Euseladia. 



gen. nov. {typ. Waterhousii). 



Claws simple, antenna? dentate from the third joint, sparsely 

 unequally punctate, the fine punctures very obsolete, abdominal 

 plates complete. S. America (B. M.). 



