IX. Descriptions of some new genera and new species of 
Halticide. By Martin Jacosy, F.H.S. 
[Read February 8th, 1893.] 
Crimissa opaca, L. sp. 
Robust, convex, reddish fulvous, opaque; the last seven joints of 
the antenne, the knees, tibiz, and tarsi, black; thorax transversely 
convex, irregularly punctured ; elytra very finely punctured, the 
interstices aciculate. Length, 54 lines. 
Head impunctate, finely strigose behind the eyes, the frontal 
elevations very flat; apex of the mandibles black; the antenne 
scarcely extending to the middle of the elytra, black, the lower four 
joints fulvous, the second joint slightly longer than the third one ; 
thorax strongly transversely convex, the sides rounded, the anterior 
angles acutely produced, the surface closely and strongly punc- 
tured near the margins, more sparingly and finely on the disc ; 
scutellum broader than long, smooth, its surface slightly concave ; 
elytra opaque, dark fulvous, very minutely punctured and acicu- 
late ; the lower margins of the abdominal segments punctured and 
pubescent. 
Hab. Brazil. 
This species, of which I possess two specimens without 
precise locality, seems to me to be distinct from C. 
cruralis, Stal, on account of the reddish fulvous and 
opaque, not testaceous, colour, the much more strongly 
transverse and convex form of the thorax, and the very 
finely punctured and aciculate elytra, which show no 
traces of longitudinal smooth spaces as in C. cruralis, in 
which the elytral punctures are much stronger and with- 
out the connecting scratches. 
Crimissa piceicollis, n. sp. 
Piceous, the antenne (the basal five joints excepted) black; 
thorax very convex, closely punctured near the margins; elytra 
pale flavous, opaque, finely and irregularly punctured. Length, 
43 lines. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1893.—PaRT II. (JUNE.) 
