584 Mr. J. S. Baly's descriptions of a 



gincd, slightly diverging and slightly rounded from the 

 base to beyond the middle, thence abruptly thickened and 

 obliquely truncate to the apex ; lower angle of the trunca- 

 tion produced into a distinct tooth; upper surface trans- 

 versely convex, finely but distinctly jnmctulate. Scutel- 

 lum transverse, broadly rounded. Elytra broader than 

 the thorax, oblong-ovate, distinctly punctulate. 



Genus NisoTRA, Baly. 

 Nisotra Bo^oringii. 



Rotundato-ovata, convexa, fulvo-testacca, nitida, an- 

 tennis, basi exceptis, nigris; elytris cyaneis, subremote, 

 irrcgulariter substriatim punctatis. 



Var. A. Pectore abdomineque piceis. 



Long. 1 — \^ lin. 



Hah. — Hong Kong ; Mr. Bowring. 



Head smooth, impunctate; encarpa; and carina obso- 

 lete ; cl}q3eus smooth, trigonate ; eyes coarsely granulose, 

 black; antenna? with the four lower joints flavo-fulvous, 

 the fifth piceons, the rest black ; apex of jaws piceous. 

 Thorax three times as broad as long; sides nearly straight 

 and parallel behind the middle, thence converging and 

 rounded to the apex, anterior angles obtusely truncate, 

 slightly produced laterally; upper surface under a lens 

 very minutely and somewhat distantly punctulate; ex- 

 treme lateral margin, together with the hinder border on 

 either side, narrowly edged with nigro-piceous. Elytra 

 broader than the thorax; distinctly j)unctured, the ])unc- 

 tures irregularly arranged in ill-defined double longitudi- 

 nal rows; interspaces minutely punctured. 



Genus Crepidodera, Foud. 

 Crepidodera intcrrupta. 



Anguste ovata, convexa, piceo-fidva, nitida, thoracc 

 laevi, disco impunctato, sulco basali fere recto, fortiter 

 ])unctato ; elytris infi-a basin transversim depressis, sat 

 fortiter punctato-striatis, punctis piceis, striis septima et 

 octava infra basin interruptis. 



Long. 1^ lin. 



Hab. — Brazil, New Friburg. 



Vertex smooth, impunctate, grooA^ed line separating the 

 front from the cncarptv finely punctured ; encarpa? trian- 



