50 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or little-known 
One of these, Neostenus (Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, iv. p. 91), on account 
of the position of the anterior cox, I am disposed to place with the 
Cerambycidx, perhaps not far from Bimia. This last, also, is a very 
isolated genus. 
Opripa [Cerambycide ]. 
White, Stokes’s Voyage, App. 1. p. 510. 
Obrida comata. 
O. nigro-chalybeata, sparse griseo-pubescens, hirsuta; elytris singulis 
macula magna mediana flava. 
Hab. Queensland. 
Very dark steel-blue, lightly covered with a pale greyish pubescence, 
with scattered, erect, stiffish hairs interspersed; head and prothorax 
roughly and closely punctured, the anterior and posterior margins of 
the latter of nearly equal breadth; scutellum triangular, covered with 
long silky hairs; elytra short, broader than the prothorax, the sides 
parallel, each furnished with two not very prominent coste, and in 
the middle a large transverse yellow spot not attaining the margin or 
the suture; body beneath shining steel-blue, sparingly punctured with 
a few scattered hairs; legs more or less hairy, the femora shining steel- 
blue, base of the posterior testaceous; tarsi rufous brown; antenne 
entirely black, about two-thirds the length of the body. Length 4 lines. 
Perfectly homogeneous with Obrida fascialis, but broader and more 
robust, with the antenne and legs entirely black (except the base of 
the posterior femora), and the broad orange band on the elytra of the 
former replaced by two pale-yellow patches ; itis also more pubes- 
cent, furnished with long scattered hairs. 
Pyrestes { Cerambycide ]. 
Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, iv. p. 96. 
Pyrestes cardinalis. 
P. ruber, nitidus; scutello, pedibus corporeque infra nigris. 
Hab. Hong Kong. 
Dark red, brighter on the elytra, shining, with a pubescence consist- 
ing of a few short black hairs, but more numerous on the prothorax ; 
head dark brownish-red, thickly punctured ; antennze dark brown, the 
basal joints coral-red, except at their extremities; eyes black; prothorax 
about half as long again as broad, rugosely punctured, the punctures 
large and irregular; scutellum narrowly triangular, black; elytra dark 
blood-red, coarsely and deeply punctured at the base, but gradually 
more scattered and shallower towards the apex; legs black, covered with 
short stiff fulvous hairs; body beneath black, shining, moderately 
punctured, slightly hairy. Length 7 lines, 
