496 Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse's descriptions of 



base oblique on each side, but very slightly lobed in the 

 middle. The elytra are not very convex, very little 

 enlarged jDOsteriorly. The surface is rather uneven, 

 closely but irregularly punctured, slightly rugulose in 

 parts, with more or less numerous small, irregular, shin- 

 ing, brown marks ; below the subapical callosity is 

 a rather large, brown, transverse spot. Pygidium 

 very thickly and strongly punctured. The sternum is 

 clothed with long yellow pubescence. The abdomen is 

 nearly smooth in the middle, but is rather thickly punc- 

 tured at the sides ; with very sparse and extremely fine 

 pubescence. 



Hah. Fianarantsoa (Cowan). 



Encya pyriformis, n. s. 

 Pyriformis, sat convexa, brunnea, parum nitida, dense 

 rugoso-punctata, squamis setiformibus flavo-griseis ves- 

 tita, squamisque majoribus hie et illic albidis ; corpore 

 subtus dense griseo-albo pubescenti. ? . Long. 12| lin., 

 lat. (postice), Tg- lin. 



Clypeus very short, but not quite so short as in the 

 foregoing species, the emargination occupying about 

 one-third the length. Thorax very broad behind, very 

 obliquely narrowed in front, not very convex, closely and 

 coarsely punctured, but the punctures are not so crowded 

 as in E. gutticollis. Elytra at the base the same width 

 as the base of the thorax, gradually becoming broader 

 for two-thirds the length, and then obtusely rounded off; 

 the greatest width is to the width of the base as 3 to 2 ; 

 the shoulders and the subapical callosities are scarcely 

 prominent, the latter marked by a small smooth spot 

 below ; the punctuation is very close and strong, and the 

 narrow elevated shining intervals are confluent trans- 

 versely. The setiform scales are very acute, evenly dis- 

 tributed over the surface, and not so dense as in the 

 foregoing species. The sternum is clothed with moderately 

 long soft pubescence ; the abdomen with setiform scales, 

 which are a trifle shorter and less narrow than those on 

 the elytra. 



Encya gutticollis, n. s. 



Elongato-oblonga, subparallela, convexa, fusca, dense 

 rugulosa, brevissime griseo-pilosa, subopaca ; thorace 

 guttis duabus albidis ornato, elytris postice parum lati- 



