KX) LYROPAEUS VVATERHOUSEI. 



Easily distinguished by its colour among any Eastern 

 species possessing the general characters of the genus. The 

 head and thorax are smooth and shining, the latter paler 

 pitchy at the sides and in front. The elytra are thickly 

 but finely squaraose , the intercostal spaces very finely and 

 rather irregularly punctured. 



One specimen from the district of Rawas (Sum. Exp.). 



13. Dito necesflavi color, sp. n. 



Nigro-fuscus , capite flavo , prothorace , scutello , ely trisque 

 pallide luteis , his apice tenuiter indistincte infuscatis , an- 

 tennis pectinatis. — Long. 7^2 millira. cf. 



The head is clear yellow , the eyes rather large , the basal 

 joint of the antennae swollen , the rami from the base of 

 each joint are longer than the joints themselves and are 

 pubescent. The thorax very smooth and even but not shi- 

 ning, the margin strongly reflexed, an impression on each 

 side near the front angles and at the base, the channel 

 distinct but the carina hardly visible , a shallow oblique 

 impression on each side of the disk. Elytra with the four 

 costae scarcely more than raised lines , the intervals being 

 very obsoletely biserially celled. The legs are pale at their 

 bases within. 



A single male example from the district of Rawas (Sum. Exp,). 



14. Lyropaeus ^) Waterhousei, sp. n. 

 Nigro-fuscus, depressus, capite minuto, antennis linea- 



1) This singular genus is characterised by its linear, somewhat rigid an- 

 tennae, and very small head and thorax. These together with the carinate 

 shoulders and gradually expanded elytra, remind one very much of some S])e- 

 cies of Hispidae , more particularly of (Jephalodonta. 



Mr. Waterhouse has only referred one species from Ceylon to the genus as 

 its type, but there is in the Britisli Museum a broken specimen of the same 

 insect as the one described below, which he had considered as closely allied to 

 it, and in naming it after him 1 take this opportunity of expressing my obli- 

 gations to him for the kind assistance and urbanity with which he has affor- 

 ded me every facility for examining his types contained in the national col- 

 lection in London. 



.Notes Irom the Lcydeii ^Museum , Vol. \W 



