470 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or little-known 
laterali distinctus. Elytra elevata, a medio fortiter declivia, epipleuris 
linearibus. Z’bie lineares, subcurvatee. Corpus glabrum. 
These characters give this genus a very different appearance from 
Eutelus and the preceding one. The form of the prothorax causes a 
marked distinction between the pronotum and its flanks, which is 
wanting in the above genera; the epipleure of the elytra are also 
of equal breadth throughout, and very apparent. 
Byzacnus picticollis. (Pl. XIX. fig. 6.) 
B. cupreo-fuscus, nitidus; prothorace lateribus rubris; antennis, tibiis 
tarsisque rufo-ferrugineis. 
Hab. Natal. 
Copper-brown, shining ; head finely punctured ; antenne reddish fer- 
ruginous; lip and palpi paler; prothorax rugosely punctured, the sides 
dark red; scutellum small, transversely convex; elytra coarsely and 
sparingly punctured, narrower at the base than the prothorax, gradually 
broader and higher near the middle, where they are a little rounded and 
furnished with twelve tubercles, then almost vertically declivous, and 
the sides rapidly narrowing to the dehiscent apex, where they termi- 
nate each in an obtuse point; body beneath and femora dark brown, 
shining, finely punctured ; tibize and tarsi reddish ferruginous. Length 
5 lines. 
Oremasis [ Cyphaleine ]. 
A Prophane differt prothorace angulis anticis haud productis; elytris 
gibbosis, basi prothorace haud latioribus et ad eum arcte applicatis, 
apicibus acuminatis. 
The type of this genus 1s Adelium cupreum, G. R. Gray (Griffith’s 
Animal King. Ins. i. p..22, pl. 80. f. 2). It is another of those 
species allied to Prophanes, which M. Lacordaire considers not to 
accord with that genus. It is in fact much nearer Cyphaleus in 
form than the depressed Prophanes. Another genus to be consti- 
tuted is one for P. metallescens, Westw. ; and probably my Charto- 
pteryx binodosus, with its two great humps like T'hecacerus, will 
require another. All the species of this handsome family, except 
Lepispilus suleicollis* and Hemicyclus grandis, are exceedingly rare. 
My collection contains eleven species, the British Museum seven, the 
greater part of each of each of them limited to a single individual. 
There are doubtless many more to come. 
Lycestira [ Cyphaleine}. 
Prophani affinis, sed differt clypeo emarginato ; angulis anticis prothoracis 
haud productis ; et apicibus elytrorum muticis. 
* Kound in Australia as well as in Tasmania. 
