56 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or little-known 



Macratria fumosa. 



M. rufo-brunnea ; pedibus (posticis exceptis), palpis antennisque fulvis, 

 his apicem versus infuscatis ; capite pedibusque posticis nigris. 



Hab. India (Dacca). 



Light reddish-bro^vIl, with a pale greyish pile ; head and prothorax 

 very finely punctui-ed, the latter rather broad and somewhat ovate ; 

 soutellum subtransverse ; elytra punctured, &c., as in the preceding ; legs 

 (except the posterior pair), palpi, and antennse fulvous, the latter with 

 the last three joints dark brown ; head and hind legs black, except the 

 extremity of the tarsi, which are pale yellow. The claws in this species 

 appear to be broadly toothed at their base. Length 2{ lines. 



Macratria subguttata. 



M. atra, nitida, sparse albo-hirta ; elytris, singulo maculis duabus, fere ob- 

 soletis, albis. 



Hah. Moluccas (Batchian). 



Glossy black, with much-dispersed whitish hairs ; each elytron with 

 two rather indistinct white or somewliat ashy spots, one a little before 

 the middle, the other the same distance beyond it ; antennae, palpi, and 

 mouth pale yellow, the former gradually deepening towards the apex 

 into black ; tarsi pale yellowish, except the first joint of the posterior 

 pail-. Length 3 lines. 



Emydodes [Lagriidae]. 



Head very small, rounded behind the eyes, then contracting into a neck, 

 which is nearly immersed in the prothorax. Eyes large, oblong, emar- 

 ginate, transverse, and approximating both above and beneath. Labial 

 palpi very small; maxillary elongate, the terminal joint ovate, pointed. 

 Antennae robust, shorter than the body, arising close to the eye, the 

 first joint tumid, the second very short, the third to the tenth thick, 

 triangular, with a bifid prolongation at the apex of each on one side, 

 the eleventh elongate-ovate. Prothorax slightly transverse, roimded 

 anteriorly, twice the breadth of the head, but much narrower at the 

 base than the elytra, its parapleurse confounded with the pronotum. 

 Elytra depressed, v^dth a subovate outline, the epipleui'a strongly bent in 

 beneath. Legs robust j anterior coxae large, approximate, shortly cylin- 

 drical ; tibiae not spun'ed, the four posterior thickened in the middle ; 

 tarsi short, the penultimate joint subbilobed; claws undivided, slightly 

 toothed at the base. 



A veiy curious genus, which, if rightly referred to Lagi-iidoe (and of 

 this I have little doubt), differs entirely in the remarkable striietiu'e 

 of the antennse, in which it somewhat resembles the Pyrochroidae. 

 From my solitary specimen, I cannot make sure that the anterior 

 acetabula are closed ; they appear to be so, however. As far as I 



