504 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some 
short spine directed inwardly; penultimate joint of the tarsi deeply 
bilobed, the last joint broader from the base, claws divaricate. 
It is with some hesitation that I refer this species to 
Echyroschema (Thoms., Syst. Ceramb., p. 48), as Lacor- 
daire (Gen., ix., p. 503) gives ‘‘ divergent antennary 
tubercles”? as one of the characters of the genus, nor 
does M. Thomson, who devotes less than two lines to 
the description of the species (#. favosa), nor, indeed, to 
any of the characters given above. In the remarkable 
net-like sculpture of the elytra and the two callosities at 
their base, as well as the shortness of the antenne, the 
two species agree. It may be added that the legs are 
furnished with short stout hairs resembling small 
eranules. 
Atybe nigritarsis. 
A. oblonga, picea, fusco pubescens, fasciculata, medio elytrorum 
griseo; prothorace basi quam apice latiori; tibiis intermediis et 
posticis medio apicali, tarsisque nigris. Long. 8 lin. 
Hab. Madagascar. 
Closely resembling A. Plantii (Pascoe, Journ. Ent., vol. ii., 
p. 281, pl. 13, fig. 6), but with broader tarsi, a stouter scape, and 
with the sides behind the middle nearly parallel and rather broader 
at the base than at the apex, the minute spines on the disk of the 
prothorax of the former being replaced by nearly obsolete tubercles, 
the broad band on the elytra greyish or ashy, with scattered punc- 
tures; femora at the apex and tibie whitish, tarsi deep black ; 
abdominal segments—except the last—with two spots at the 
margins; composed of reddish-brown hairs. 
Ropica cylindrica. 
R. attenuata, fusca, pilis brevibus griseis omnino tecta ; pro- 
thorace cylindrico elongato; elytris parallelis elongatis, apicibus 
truncatis, pone medium fascia pallida fere obsoleta notatis. Long. 
5 lin. 
Hab. India. 
Narrow, dark brown, everywhere covered with short greyish 
hairs; head concave between the antennary tubercles; antenne 
scarcely longer than the body; scape rather stout, cyathiform ; 
prothorax cylindrical, much longer than broad, coarsely and 
remotely punctate; scutellum semicircular; elytra elongate, 
parallel, the apex of each somewhat obliquely truncate, seriate- 
punctate, the punctures larger at the base, behind the middle a 
