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have not been able to ascertain if these insects are winged. In 
Phaleria cadaverina there are only the rudiments of wings. The two 
species were kindly presented to me by Arthur Adams, Esq. 
Emypsara Adamsu. (Pl. XIX. fig. 3.) 
FE. nigra; elytris, sutura nigra excepta, testaceis, fasciis flexuosis duabus 
rufis ornatis. 
Hab. Mantchuria (Vladimir Bay). 
Black, the upper surface minutely and closely granulated; antennz 
shorter than the length of the prothorax, pale at the base; scutellum 
broadly triangular; elytra testaceous, except the black suture and two 
broad waved reddish bands; body beneath and legs dark chestnut- 
brown. Length 3 lines, 
Fig. 2a represents the fore tarsus, and fig. 26 the antennee. 
Emypsara flexuosa. 
£. testacea; capite supra nigro; elytris lineis flexuosis nigro notatis. 
Hab. Mantchuria (Oo-00 Bay). 
Testaceous, the upper surface minutely and closely granulated ; head 
black above ; antennze darker at the tips, longer than the length of the 
prothorax; scutellum triangular ; elytra with two series of irregular 
patches, forming two imperfect bands, more brownish testaceous than 
the rest, and bordered more or less with dark-brown or black wavy 
lines; body beneath and legs yellowish testaceous, the spurs of the 
tibize and claws black. Length 23 lines. 
Pteroheleus* pruinosus. 
P. breviter ovatus, fuscus, pulvere albido tectus; elytris striato-punctatis, 
singulatim costis tribus vix elevatis instructis. 
Hab. North Australia. 
Allied to P. piceus, Kirby, but broader, and the sides more parallle, 
covered with a fine uniform whitish exudation, and, under the lens, a 
scattered greyish squamosity ; elytra striate-punctate, with only three 
very slightly raised lines on each; body beneath reddish chestnut ; 
antennze and legs ferruginous. Length 9 lines. 
Pteroheleus agonus. 
_ P. ovatus, fuscus, subnitidus; prothorace apice late emarginato ; elytris 
tenuiter lineato-punctatis, lineis subremotis. 
Hab. South Australia. 
Ovate, blackish brown, slightly nitid; head very finely punctured ; 
antenne and palpi ferruginmous; prothorax nearly impunctate, very 
short, broadly emarginate at the apex, the posterior angles slightly 
* De Bréme, Essai Monog. et Iconog. de la Tribu des Cossyphides, p. 27 ; 
Lacordaire, Gen. v. p. 346. 
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