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



Tlie fore and intermediate legs of this species are unusually 

 distant at their insertion. 



Lasiopezus WMtei. 



L. fusco-piceus, pubescens ; elytris basi cristatis, cinereo-fus- 

 coque variegatis, tertio apicali, macula mediana irregulari, 

 prothorace, mesosterno, abdominque segmentis tribus ultimis, 

 albidis. 



Natal. 



Differs from L. marmorator, F., in the prothorax without the 

 brown central patch, and the absence of the broad median band ; 

 the elytra are also less depressed. In several specimens of 

 both species which I have examined these differences are 

 constant. 



Length 10 lines. 



I have changed the old name of this genus, Lasiodactylus (Dj.) 

 Blanch., into Lasiopezus, the former having been preoccupied (by 

 Perty) for a genus of Nit'iduUdce. This species, I need hardly 

 say, I have dedicated to Mr. White, of the British Museum, to 

 whom ^e\\ Entomologists of the present day are not indebted for 

 many valuable hints (too many sometimes, perhaps, to be always 

 conveniently acknowledged), and who first nointed out to me the 

 distinctive character of this species. 



Polyrhaphis Jansoni. 



P. latus, fulvescens ; capite, antennarum articulis duabus basa- 



libus, femoribus, tibiisque nigris. 

 Para. 



Habit of P. spinijiennis, Lap. ; head, two first joints of the 

 antennae, thighs (except at the tips), tibiae, end of the last tarsal 

 joint, claws, and prosternum, black ; prothorax and elytra with a 

 fulvous pile ; under surface paler ; epistome dull yellow ; tarsi 

 covered with long golden yellow hairs. 



Length 12 lines. 



Tiie prothorax has a strong straight acute spine on each side, 

 and two smaller ones on its disc, as in P. sp'inipennis ; the arrange- 

 ment of the tubercles on the elytra is also nearly the same as in 

 that species. Dedicated to the curator of the Society, to whose 

 well-known skill and critical acumen I have been often deeply 

 indebted. 



