102 Mr. F. P. Pascoe's Descriptions of New Genera 



one-tliird longer than the body, shghtly ciliated beneath, brown, 

 the fifth joint and base of the fourth excepted, which are white; 

 legs brown, with a pale band in the middle of each tibia. 

 Length 4 lines. 



Cacia inculta. 

 C. briinnea, flavido-fuscoque variegata ; prothorace transversa ; 

 scutello pallide-ochraceo ; elytris fasciis duabus apiceque 

 fuscis ; antennis mediocribus, articulo tertio curvato. Bor- 

 neo. 

 Brown, varied with dark brown and yellowish ; prothorax 

 short, with dark spots and patches, and the side with an oblique 

 stripe ; scutellum pale buff; elytra coarsely punctured with two 

 fascia, the upper curved downward from the shoulder, and 

 the most distinct, particularly at its anterior border, the lower 

 formed by two interrupted patches; behind tliis there is a dark 

 spot or two, the apex being very distinctly tipped with dark 

 brown ; antennae scarcely longer than the body, and very slightly 

 ciliated, reddish brown, the apex of the fourth joint with a black 

 tuft, its base and that of the fifth pale ; legs with the four pos- 

 terior tarsi pale, the anterior reddish, all, with the tibiae, obscurely 

 banded in the middle. 

 Length 5\ lines. 



Cacia Newmanni. 



C. fusca ; prothorace humerisque albo-bilineatis ; elytris punc- 

 tatis basi tuberculato, postice lineis duabus curvatis, una alba 

 altera nigrd, ornatis. Malacca. 



Brown ; prothorax with a white line commencing behind the 

 eyes and directed obliquely outward over the shoulder, within 

 this there is a wider black one, which, however, is confined to the 

 prothorax ; elytra coarsely punctured, with a large tubercle be- 

 tween the shoidder and scutellum, having a curved white line, 

 and behind a broader black one, extending obliquely across the 

 lower half, and with an obscure patch or two near the apex ; legs 

 with the basal half of all the tibiae pale, the rest with the tarsi 

 black; antennae with the first joint dark brown, the second and 

 third reddish brown, the fourth black, and all these hairy, espe- 

 cially the last, the fifth joint white, the remainder light brown, 

 deepening gradually into black. 



Length ii^ lines. 



1 have named this elegant little insect after E. Newman, Esq., 

 F. L. S., &c. &c., who first characterized this now tolerably ex- 



