Mr. Pascoe's descriptions of Cm-cizKonidfe. 51)9 



Idastes elevatus. 



I. compressus, fuscus, squamiilis pallidioribiis adspersis ; pro- 

 thorace basi qviam longitudine duplo latiore. Long. 5 lin. 

 Hab, New Hebrides. 



Compressed — the elytra especially — dark brown, with paler 

 scattered scales, much smaller and less numerous (perhaps 

 partially abraded) on the elytra; head convex in front; eyes 

 rather widely apart; rostrum black, with scales only at the base; 

 antennse glossy ferruginous, the first and thu'd joints of the 

 funicle of equal length, the second nearly twice as long, club 

 somewhat short, of four distinct joints ; prothorax rounded 

 above, gradually broader towards the base, which is about twice 

 broader than long; scutellum rounded, velvety; elytra much 

 broader than the prothorax at the base, gradually narrowing 

 to the rounded apex, much compressed and raised into a sort of 

 crest at the middle poi'tion of the suture ; three intermediate 

 segments of the abdomen nearly equal in length ; anterior tibiae 

 more flexuous than the others ; penultimate joint of the tarsi 

 strongly bilobed; claws simple. 



Poroptervs jtijtiwn. 



H. ellipticus, subdepressus, niger, opacus, parce pallide fusco- 

 squamosus ; prothorace apice ju'oducto, bilobo; elytris remote 

 foveato-impressis, ajDice rotundatis. Long. 5^-6 lin. 



Hab. Port Bo wen. 



Elliptic, subdepressed, black, opacpie, partially clothed with 

 pale brownish scales, which are more scattered on the middle 

 of the prothorax and elytra ; rostrum rather broad, remotely 

 ])unctured ; antennae ferruginous, the club with a blackish 

 pubescence — pale in certain lights — second joint of the funicle 

 much longer than the first ; prothorax about equal in length and 

 Ijreadth, impunctate, the sides anteriorly a little incurved, the 

 apex projecting and bilol)ed ; elytra half as long again as broad, 

 the shoulders with a ])rojecting lobe directed forAvards, the a])cx 

 rounded, above with a few irregidar foveate impressions; femora 

 scarcely thickened; tibia* at the apex black and without scales. 



In outline this species resembles P. rnbetra, Boh., a smaller 

 and shorter species, and, inter alia, the shoulders not tuber- 

 culiferous. 



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