308 Mr. J. S. Baly's notes on 



space, the latter slightly thickened, the surface between it and 

 the humeral callus rather deeply excavated ; disk minutely punc- 

 tured ; each elytron below the shoulder with a large black patch, 

 attached to the lateral margin, but terminating on the inner disk 

 at some distance from the suture. 



Genus Hyperacantha, Chapuis. 



It will be seen that I have removed some insects, 

 placed in M. Allard's paper under AulacopJiora, into the 

 present genus. In some of the species that I have 

 examined, as well as in some of those belonging to 

 Diacantha, the elytral epipleura is not abbreviated before 

 reaching the middle, but is continued downwards nearly 

 to the apex as a narrow grooved line, usually impressed 

 with a single row of punctures. 



Genus Pseudocophora, Jacohy. 



Four new species are characterised by M. Allard in 

 his paper. Unfortunately the descriptions are so short 

 that they are practically useless, and will, I fear, be found 

 rather a hindrance than a help to any student of the 

 genus. The author has also omitted all notice of 

 P. brunnea, mihi, although that species was published 

 in my first paper on Aulacophora, p. 26. In the autumn 

 of last year (Journ. Linn. Soc, xx., p. 168) I gave a 

 synopsis of all the species known to me ; of these (ten 

 in number) six were described as new. It is more than 

 probable, from the short time that elapsed from the 

 publication of my paper to the appearance of that of 

 M. Allard's, it had not come under his notice. 



Genus Hoplosoma, Jacohy. 



M. Allard, in giving his list of the species, has omitted 

 two species, ventralis and ornata, described by myself in 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., March, 1886, p. 27 : he has 

 also passed over one of Mr. Jacoby's, celehensis, charac- 

 terised in the 'Annals of the Genoa Museum ' for October, 

 1886, p. 81 : ventralis, mihi, is, I believe, identical with 

 both celehensis, Jac, and corniculata, Allard, and, having 

 been the earliest described, must stand as the name of 

 the species. 



