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



Body short and compact, covered with appressed whitish hairs ; 

 prothorax very broad, rounded in front, each posterior angle ter- 

 minating in a spine ; elytra broad at the shoulders, decreasing, 

 with a slight curve at the sides, to the apex, covered with white 

 hairs mixed with huffish blotches partially disposed in longitudi- 

 nal curved lines with coarse rough punctures between them, and 

 each having two fascicles, one between the shoulder and suture, 

 the other on the apical third of the elytron ; antennae not longer 

 than the body. 



Length 4 lines. 



Praonelha posticalis. 



P. griseo-fusca, varia ; elytris medio depressis, bicostatis, basi 

 elevato-cristatis ; antennis mediocribus. Ceylon. 



Greyish brown, varied ; prothorax with two obscure longi- 

 tudinal lines at the base, darker externally ; elytra bicostate, 

 roughly punctured, depressed towards the middle, where there is 

 a dull crescent-shaped greyish band, and towards the apex another 

 and more deeply defined, the base of each elytron raised into a 

 crest; antennae scarcely longer than the body, ciliated beneath. 



Length Sg lines. 



Praonetha melaimra. 



P. griseo-fusca ; elytris fortiter punctatis ; abdomine segmento 

 ultimo nigro ; antennis brevibus, articulo quarto albo-cincto. 

 Malacca. 



Greyish brown ; head sooty ; prothorax thickly punctured ; 

 elytra tinged at the base and posterior half with brownish yellow, 

 the middle greyish, very coarsely punctured in regular lines ; 

 tarsi and last abdominal segment black ; antennae shorter than the 

 body, dark brown, the fourth joint white in the middle, the third 

 with a slight tuft of hair, the remainder ciliated. 



Length 5| lines. 



ACONODES, 



Antennae slender, shorter than the body, the third joint longest ; 

 maxillary palpi with the terminal joint ovate, pointed ; eyes 

 small, broadly emarginate ; thorax wider than the head, longi- 

 tudinal, slightly tumid at the sides ; elytra convex, wider poste- 

 riorly, each terminating in a divaricate point ; legs slender, thighs 

 simple. 



