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



Rather short, with a pale greyish pubescence, and sprinkled 

 with small brown spots, the elytra presenting three imperfect 

 faciee of the same colour ; antennae with the upper part of each 

 joint dark brown ; legs varied, the tarsi darker ; under surface 

 dark brown. 



Length 4^ lines. 



Mesosa columha. 



M. pallide-fuscescens ; prothorace disco, punctis quatuor et 

 plagalaterali, fuscis ; elytris disperse-punctatis, maculis tribus 

 fuscis, albo-submnrginatis, longitudinaliter dispositis ; anten- 

 nis pedibusque fuscis, grisescente-annulatis. 



Ceylon. 



Pale greyish-brown ; prothorax with four spots (two anterior 

 and two posterior), and a patch at the side beneath, dark brown ; 

 elytra punctured with three brown spots placed longitudinally, and 

 more or less bordered with white, and two or three very obscure 

 marks — brown and white — at the side ; antennae dark brown, the 

 base of all the joints, from the third inclusive, greyish white; legs 

 varied with dark-brown and pale-greyish ; under surface dull 

 grey. 



Length 6 lines. 



Penthea conferta. 



P. picea, pube fusco-grised tecta; corpore supra, femoribus, 

 antennarum articulo primo, granulis numerosis nitidissimis, 

 aspersis ; elytris singulis pone medium plaga obliqud obscure 

 cinerea ornatis, apice truncatis. 



Aru. 



Pitchy, covered with a thick greyish-brown pile, and having the 

 whole of the upper surface, including the first joint of the antennae 

 and femora, furnished with numerous glossy black granules, each 

 having at its base, posteriorly, a short stiff hair ; elytra truncate 

 at the apex, behind the middle an oblique, obscure, cinereous 

 patch ; mesosternum with a small vertical tooth. 



Length 10 lines. 



This has quite the habit of P. granulosa, Guer. 



Sytnphyletes metutus. 

 S. robustus, fuscus, ochraceo-griseoque variegatus ; elytris sub- 



quadricarinatis, apiculatis ; coxis tibiisque anticis maris cal- 



caratis. 

 Aru. 



