neio genera and species of Halticince. 4-il 



rufo-piceis, articulo ultimo sordide albo ; elytris asneis, sat 

 fortiter punctato-striatis, interspatiis ad latera convexis. 



Long. 1| lin. 



Hab. — Borneo (Sarawak). 



Antennas in the male longer than the body, basal joint 

 more than equal in length to the two following joints 

 united, about equal to the 4th ; apical joints scarcely com- 

 pressed, slightly curved ; jaws and lower end of clypeus 

 piceous. Thorax nearly three times as broad as long; 

 sides rounded and converging from base to apex, anterior 

 angles thickened, obtusely and obliquely truncate; surface 

 finely but distinctly punctured. Elytra regularly and 

 rather strongly punctate-striate, interspaces smooth, convex 

 on the outer disk. 



Genus Chirodica, Germar. 

 Thorax dorso non sulcatus ; elytra confuse punctata ; 

 femora antica quatuor leviter, postica sat valde incrassata; 

 tibi(B anticce quatuor apice muticas ; acetahula antica 

 aperta. 



This genus resembles greatly in form many of the 

 European species of Podacjrica. 



Chirodica fulvipes. 



Anguste oblonga, postice attenuata, convexa, subtus 

 nigra, nitida, pedibus antennisque fidvis, his apice infus- 

 catis ; thorace elytrisque metallico-purpureis. 



Long. 1| lin. 



Hab. — Cape of Good Hope. 



Head impunctate, fiintly strigose ; encai"}!^ trigonate, 

 contiguous at the apex ; carina ill-defined, broad; five loAver 

 joints of antennre fulvous, six outer ones stained with 

 black. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long ; sides 

 rounded, slightly converging in front; hinder angles 

 rounded, anterior angles subacute, curved slightly out- 

 wards ; above convex, impressed in front of the base with 

 a very faint transverse groove, from the middle of which 

 an indistinct longitudinal imjn-essed line which runs up- 

 wards halfway across the disk ; surface finely but rather 

 closely punctulate. Scutellum trigonate, shining black. 

 Elytra scarcely broader than the thorax at the base, 

 parallel, attenuated towards the apex, the latter in each 



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