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



Reddish chesnut ; eyes, antennae and tarsi black ; elytra spar- 

 ingly punctured, with three slightly elevated lines at the base 

 and covered with a dense grey pubescence. 



Length 7 lines. 



Glenea pulchella. 



G. atra, pubescens ; fronte, prothorace lateribus, elytrisque 

 basi et maculis duabus communibus sulphureis ; antennis — 

 articulis duabus primis exceptis — pedibusque testaceis. Ma- 

 lacca. 



Black, densely pubescent ; front, cheeks, sides of the thorax, 

 scutellum, base and two large confluent spots on the elytra, 

 sulphur yellow ; sides of the mesothorax and three middle ab- 

 dominal segments paler ; antennae (the first two joints black) 

 and legs testaceous. 



Length 4 lines. 



Glenea vexator. 



G. fulvo-testacea ; antennis, apice elytrorum, pedibus quatuor 

 posticis, metathorace, abdomineque infra nigris. Ceylon. 



Fulvous yellow, inclining to testaceous ; antennae, eyes, apex 

 of the elytra, four posterior legs, and body below (except the 

 prosternum), black. Elytra with a few scattered hairs, and 

 punctured in about six rows; head short, broad and rounded in 

 front, labrum nearly naked. 



Length 5 lines. 



Phcebe cretifera. 



P. fulvo-castanea, guttis magnis niveis ornatis ; antennis 

 articulo primo nigro. Brasilia. 



Yellowish chesnut, pubescent ; head, several large spots above 

 and sides of breast and abdomen, snowy white ; basal joint of 

 antenna and eyes black, the former with white hairs on one side ; 

 gibbosities in front brown (^ only); prothorax with four spots 

 and two on each side below, each elytron with seven spots, in- 

 cluding two also at the side and towards the base. 



Length 7 lines, 



A well known Rio insect, hitherto, I believe, undescribed. 



