128 Mr. F, P. Pascoc on some new or little-hiown 



impressed punctures ; legs smooth and shining, tarsi brownish ; an- 

 tennas shorter than the prothorax, paler at the apex ; body smooth 

 beneath. Length 5-6 lines. 



RHTNOSTMirs [Salpingidse]. 

 Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. ii. p. 231. 



Rhinosimus Wallacei. 



R. atro-chalybens, nitidus ; rostro pedibusque rufis ; elytris pui'pureis ; 

 antennarum fiiniculo tarsisque luteis. 



Mab. New Guinea (Dorey). 



Ovate, slightly depressed, finely punctured, smooth and shining ; 

 head deep steel-blue, the rostrum dark reddish-j^ellow, rather dilated 

 at the apex, the antennae inserted at about the middle, the last three 

 joints, forming a strongly marked club, black ; prothorax deep steel- 

 blue, narrower than the elytra ; scutellum very transverse ; eliyia'a dark 

 pui-ple ; femora and tibifB yellowish-red, tarsi pale brownish-yellow ; 

 body beneath chestnut-brown. Length 2i lines. 



ZoNiTis [Cantharidse], 

 Fabricius, Syst. Entom. p. 126. 



Zonitis Downesii. 



Z. breviuscidus, luteus, punctulatus ; antennis, basi excepta, nigris ; tar- 

 sorum articulo ultimo apiceque elytrorum infuscatis. 



Hob. India (Bombay). 



Eather short, brownish-yellow, the upper sm-face minutely punc- 

 tm'ed; head and prothorax rather glossy, and together considerably 

 more than half the leng-th of the elytra; scutellum rovmded posteriorly; 

 elytra much wider than the prothorax at the base, the apex clouded 

 ■with brown ; antennae scarcely extending to the base of the prothorax, 

 black, the two basal joints yellow ; palpi and mandibles at their tips, 

 and the last joint of all the tarsi above and their claws (more or less) 

 dark brown ; legs covered with short silky hairs. Length 6 lines. 



Dedicated to Ezra Downes, Esq., of Calcutta, who, during his 

 residence at Bombay, collected and sent to this country many inter- 

 esting insects from that locaKty, and after whom was named, as its 

 discoverer, the very fine and remarkable Prionian Cantharocnemis 

 Dmvnesii. 



Teigonops [CurciilionidaeJ. 



Guerin-Meneville, Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 128. 

 Trigonops Jehelii. (PI. VII. fig. 9.) 



T. piceus, pimctato-graniUatus, squamis viridescentibus tectus; ol\i;ris 



bre^-ibus, pei-jiendiculariter deflexis ; femoribus basi rufis. 

 Hah. Celebes (Manado). 



