154: Rev. H. S. Gorham's descriptions of 



" Pilus quadrimaculatus,^'' but the latter is from " Africa 

 mericL," and I have it myself from " South Africa. Pos- 

 sibly the locality of Newman's species, " Port Philip," is 

 a mistake. Anyhow, it seems strange both should have 

 been referred to Pylus, from which they differ con- 

 siderably ; the funiculus of the autenn?e have the joints 

 3 — 8 subfiliform, the eyes Avell cut out, and finely 

 facetted, the pronotum scarcely constricted, and even, and 

 with the sides not lobed, &c. I have, therefore, joined 

 Anthicoides, NeAvm., with Corynetes pectoralis^ Klug, as 

 a new genus, Thriocera. 



Pylus bicinctus, Newm. Entom. 1842, p. 364, G. and 

 H. 1. c. p. 1756. 



This = Necrobia pingnis, White, CleridcB IV. p. 63, 

 West. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1852, p. 52. It is not satisfactorily 

 placed here, though undoubtedly nearer to Pylus than to 

 A^eo'obia. 



The eyes are finely facetted, obviously cut out. The 

 palpi are widened and truncate at their apex, the maxillary 

 pair longer and less triangular than the labial. It will 

 form the type of a new genus. 



Prosymnus, Castelnau. 

 Type, P. ci'ibripennis, Cast. 



NoTOSTENUS, Spinola. [Dej.] 



Type, N. viridis, Thunbg. 



A singularly inapplicable name for the insect now 

 accepted as the type of Thunberg's description, of which 

 the pronotum is depressed, and of equal width with the 

 elytra. Ste7ionotum would be the orthographical term, 

 and is not, as far as I am aware, employed. 



DoLiCHOPSis, gen. nov. 



Type, D. haplocnemodes. 



Caput angustum, antice depressum, oculi vix pro- 

 minentes, paululum excavati, antennae 11 articulata?, 

 articulis duobus basalibus robustis ; tertio filiformi, 

 secundo sesqui longiore ; 4 — 8 obconicis, tribus ultimis 

 clavam oblongam formantibus. Palpi subfiliformes, apice 

 siibacuminato. Pronoto antice angustato, apice recte 

 truncato, basi tenuissime marginato, fortiter pimctato. 



