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



ance of the geniculation of the antennse is now only recognized as a 

 secondary character, I think M. Jekel* has done good service in 

 referring all the groups of Schonherr's Orthocerati, after ehminating 

 those which evidently belonged to the true Curculionidse, to four 

 families. Tachy genus is one of the genera so removed, and this 

 M. Jekel seems incHned to place near Ceutorhynchus. 



Dinorhopala spinosa. (PI. III. fig. 2.) 



D. atra, subnitida ; rostro, antennis, pedibusque (clava tibiisque posticis 



exceptis) fulvescentibus. 

 Hah. Burmah (Rangoon). 



Glossy black ; rostrum, throat, antenute, the fovu" anterior legs, bases 



of the posterior femora and tarsi bro-miish-yellow. Length 2^ lines. 



The figure, which is in no degree exaggerated, will give a better 

 idea of this singular little insect than the most lengthened descrip- 

 tion. It was taken, with other very interesting species, by an 

 Enghsh ofiicer at the time of our recent occupation of Rangoon. 



Okthostoma [Cerambycidag]. 

 Serville, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, t. iii. p. 61. 



OrtJiostoma cyanea. 



O. Isete-cserulea ; thorace luteo ; antennarmn articvilis tribus ultiniis albis. 



Hob. Brazil (Para). 



Bright cobalt blue ; head thickly punctured ; eyes dark brown ; pro- 

 thorax reddish-yellow, finely punctured ; scutellum subquadrate ; elytra 

 minutely granulated, sparingly clothed with short stiff black hairs ; a 

 few scattered hairs on the legs and antennae ; antennpe somewhat longer 

 than the body, the last three joints white j jugulum, prostemum, and 

 anterior coxae yellow ; abdomen glossy greenish-blue. Length 8 lines. 



OsTEDES [Lamiidae]. 

 Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. n. s. vol. v. p. 43. 



Ostedes spinosida. 



O. grisescens, fusco-variegata ; prothorace trituberculato, lateribus mu- 

 ticis ; elytris basin versus spinosis, spina incm'va. 



Hah. New Guinea (Dorey) ; Moluccas (Batcbian). 



Finely pubescent, greyish varied with brown ; head small, deeply 

 sulcated in front ; prothorax a little longer than wide, the sides im- 

 armed, the disc with two broadly depressed tubei'cles towards the an- 

 terior margin ; scutellum scarcely transverse, rounded behind ; elytra 

 rather narrow, the basal half sparingly punctiu'ed, a prominent, strongly 



* Insecta Saundersiana, pt. ii. pp. 156, 157. 



