334 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or little-hiown 



and elsewhere, and which now contain each but a single represen- 

 tative. 



Nessiaea. 

 Pascoe, ante, p. 60. 



Nessiara scelesta. 



N. fusca, pubescens ; prothorace elytrisque planatis, his singulis bituber- 



culatis, macula magna commimi nigra. 

 Hab. Island of Mysol (New Guinea). 



Clothed with very short, dark-tawny-browa hairs ; head finely punc- 

 tured, a single short central carina on the rostrum, dark brown passing 

 into black at the mouth and mandibles ; antennae not longer than the 

 rostrum, brown, the two basal joints yellow ; prothorax flattened above, 

 the depressed portion at its junction with the side forming a sharp, 

 irregular, dark-brown or black line ; scutellum small, transverse ; elytra 

 short, seriate-punctate, the disk depressed, somewhat concave, having 

 an obtuse spreading tubercle at each angle, the middle of the depres- 

 sion with a large subquadrate black patch ; legs dark brown, the tibise 

 and tarsi ringed with gi'ey ; body beneath brownish black, with a veiy 

 thin greyish pubescence. Length 4 lines. 



Not quite so much depressed as N. planata (ante p. 60), with 

 the median patch of I^essa centralis (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3 ser. 

 iv. p. 329), and much darker than either of them. Among the 

 undescribed species in Mr. Bowriag's collections, there is one with 

 the sides of the rostrum dilated in a most extraordinary manner. 



GoEPHANES [Lamiidce]. 



Head quadrate in front. Eyes small, lateral, renifonu. Antennae se- 

 taceous, longer than the body, arising fi-om short, moderately distant 

 tubercles, the basal joint rather elongate, subcylindi'ical, the third long- 

 est, the remainder gi-adually shorter. Epistome and lip very short, 

 transverse. Mandibles entire at the apex. External maxillary lobe 

 elongate. Prothorax subovate, unarmed. Elytra rather depressed, 

 broadest at the base, the sides roimded, the apex oblique. Legs mode- 

 rate, femora clavate^, tarsi slender, the basal joint of the four posterior 

 elongate. Pro- and mesostema simple. 



In habit this insect resembles Glaucytes, but is a true Lamiid, 

 although its exact affinity is not very obvious ; for the present, how- 

 ever, I am disposed to place it among the Acanthocinae, perhaps 

 near Liopus or CEdopeza. 



Ooephanes luctuosus. (PI. XVII, fig. 2.) 

 G. ater, albo variegatus ; antennis atris ; articulis quarto, apice excepta, 



et ultimis quatuor albis. 

 Hab. Madagascar. 



