126 Ml". F. P. Pascoo on some neiv or little-Jcnoivn 



at the sides. Legs rather slender; tarsi hairy beneath, the basal joint 

 longer than the succeeding one. Prosterniun pointed behind, with a 

 narrow impression in the middle ; mesosterniim notched for the recep- 

 tion of the prosterniun ; post-intercoxal process pointed anteriorly. 



This unpublished genus of Dejean's was placed by him nearly at 

 the end of his Tenehrionites, an heterogeneous assemblage, inchiding 

 as it does Mdandrya, PytJio, Pezodontus, Camaria, «fec. With the 

 last of these genera, however, and -wdth its allies, Charioiheca must be 

 placed. 



Charioiheca coruscans. (PI. VI. fig. 7.) 



C atra, nitida ; elytris cyaneis ; corpore infi-a, antennis pedihusque ferru- 

 gineis. 



Hab. Moluccas (Batchian). 



Deep black, smooth, shining; head and prothorax lightly and irregu- 

 larly pimctm-ed ; scutellum triangular ; elytra rich indigo-blue, seriato- 

 punctate (about nine rows), with numerous smaller punctures irregu- 

 larly crowding the interstices ; anteimee not longer than the breadth of 

 the head, reddish-ferruginous, the last five joints with a few short scat- 

 tered greyish hairs ; palpi and legs, particularly the tibiae and tarsi, 

 reddish-feiTuginous ; body beneath ferruginous, inclining to chestnut. 

 Length 4^ lines. 



Charioiheca litigiosa. 



C atra, nitida ; eljiiris chalybeo-cyaneis ; antennis tarsisque ferrugineis ; 

 corpore infra, femoribus tibiisque atris. 



Hah. New Guinea (Aru). 



Deep black, smooth, shining ; head with crowded oblong pimctures, 

 often three or four more or less confiuent, and then forming short lon- 

 gitudinal folds in the spaces between them ; prothorax with small 

 scattered punctures ; scuteUum rather small, triangidar ; elytra dark 

 green, punctured as the last ; antenufe, palpi, and tarsi i-eddish-fen-ugi- 

 nous ; body beneath, femora and tibiae black. Length 4^ lines. 



Rather narrower than the former, the scutellum smaller, the head 

 differently punctured, the colour less brilliant, &c. 



Charioiheca cupripennis. 



C. atra, nitida ; elytris cupreis ; corpore iufra, antennis pedihusque piceis. 



Hah. New Guinea (Dorey). 



Deep black, shining; head, especially between the eyes, with many 

 oblong punctures ; prothox'ax irregidarly punctured ; elytra seriato- 

 pimctate, the interstices crowded with very minute punctures, copper- 

 red, the sutm'e rich green ; antennae and palpi ferrugiuous-bro^vn ; 

 body beneath and legs pitchy. Length 4 lines. 



