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



Ostedes paitperata. (PI. II. fig. 1.) 



O. brunneo-picea, hirsutula ; prothorace quadrituberculato ; 



elytris basi plumiferis, canis, lateribus fusco-variis. 

 Aru. 



Reddish brown, inclining to pitchy, more or less furnished with 

 short setulose black hairs ; prothorax with a stout tubercle at 

 the side, and two smaller ones on the disc ; elytra remotely punc- 

 tured, slightly crested near the base, the crest crowned with a few 

 stiff hairs, and abruptly divaricate and pointed at the apex, whitish 

 grey, the sides with an irregular brown patch, and spotted with 

 the same colour ; legs and beneath with a sparse cinereous pile ; 

 femora varied with grey and brown, lower half of the tibiae, and 

 three last tarsal joints, dark brown ; pro- and mesosterna simple. 



Length 6 lines. 



Cacia triloba. 



C. picea, parce pubescens ; prothorace vittis quinque, scutello 

 elytrisque maculis, subfasciatis dispositis, flavis, macule com- 

 muni basali trilobd ; antennis nigris, articulo quarto basi 

 albo ; pedibus variegatis. 



Ceylon. 



Pitchy black, covered with a thin greyish pubescence, with 

 stripes and spots of pale fulvous yellow ; prothorax with a central 

 and two lateral lines ; elytra sparingly punctured, with an irregular 

 spot, resembling the letter M, at the shoulder, a trilobed patch, 

 common to both, at the scutellum, and two bands below, formed 

 each by a double line of spots more or less distinct ; antennae 

 shorter than the body, black, basal half of the fourth joint dull 

 white ; legs and beneath yellowish, varied with dark brown. 



Length 7 lines. 



Olcnocamptus clarus. 



O. ater, pube nive4 densissime tectus ; capite, prothorace, ely- 

 trisque maculis atris ornatis ; pedibus brunneis ; antennis 

 testaceis, articulis tertio quartoque scabris. 



China Borealis. 



Black, covered with a very dense snowy-wliite pubescence, and 

 spotted with black ; on the head, one spot behind the eye and five 

 posteriorly on the prothorax (two, sometimes united, on the median 

 line, and two or three at the side), and on each elytron three placed 

 longitudinally ; legs liglit brown, sparingly pubescent ; antennae 



