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



tlie side; elytra rather broad, sub-tessellated with fiilvescent, 

 and having three or four irregular patches of the same colour ; 

 antennae with the base of nearly all the joints testaceous. 

 Length 3 lines. 



Exocentrus inclusus. 

 E. griseus, setulosus ; capite fusco, proihorace transverso utrin- 

 que angulato ; ely tris pone medium fascia fuscescente flexuosa 

 ornatis ; antennarum articulis basi pallidis. 

 Natal. 



Greyish pubescent clothed with long setulose hairs, but princi- 

 pally on the elytra, where they arise from round naked spots in 

 the pubescence ; prothorax transverse, the side triangularly 

 dilated, but not spined ; elytra with a pale brown flexuous line, 

 like the letter M, behind the middle ; antennae with the bases of 

 the joints paler. 

 Length 2^ lines. 



Gyaritus Icevicollis. 



G. piceo-fuscus, pubescens, crinitus ; prothorace laevi, gibbo- 

 sulo ; elytris muticis, cinereo-variis, fascia obliqud laid basali 

 et plagd laterali, apicem versus, cinereis. 



Aru. 



Pitchy brown, pubescent, with long, slender, erect, dispersed 

 hairs; prothorax rounded, smooth, slightly raised in the middle; 

 elytra unarmed, pitchy, with a broad oblique band from below the 

 shoulder, forming, with its fellow, a V-shaped mark, and a large 

 lateral patch at the posterior third, cinereous; under surface pitchy ; 

 antennae with a few stiffish hairs. 



Length 2\ lines. 



The generic characters of Gyaritus will require to be enlarged 

 to include this species; it will still, however, be distinguished 

 from Pogonochcerus and its allies by the tumid joints of the an- 

 tennae, and from Phlyarus by the simple tibiae. 



Nyphona Bakewellii. 

 N. picea, sparse pubescens ; capite prothoraceque griseatis ; 

 elytris nigro-viridibus, plaga media (albo-varia) maculisque 

 griseis irroratis. 

 Australia (Moreton Bay). 



Rather short, pitchy , covered with a dark-green pubescence varied 

 with grey : head and prothorax at the sides entirely grey ; elytra 

 obscurely spotted witli grey, in the middle of each two or three 

 approximate spots, below which is a white one, the wiiole having 



