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



Amphionycha circumcincta. 



A. hirsuta, pallide straminea ; capite protlioraceque supra, 

 elytris basi, discoque chalybeo-nigris ; antennis pedibusque 

 fusco-vaviis. 



Flumen Amazon. 



Rather short, hairy, pale straw yellow, with the upper part of 

 the head and prothorax, scutellum, base, and nearly the whole of 

 the elytra, except the pale yellow, which forms a complete border 

 around them, dark chalybeate blue ; eyes, tips of the mandibles, 

 stripe on the upper edge of all the femora, tibia and tarsi, a stripe 

 also on the first antennal joint, the second and third, except a 

 small line below, and the whole of the seventh to the eleventh, dark 

 brown. 



Length 4 lines. 



The elytra of this remarkable species are bent at the sides as in 

 Hemilophus. 



Glenea scapifera, 



G. fulvo-pubescens ; prothorace vittis sextis, elytris utriusque 

 maculis quatuor, antennisque nigris ; pedibus testaceis ; abdo- 

 mine pallido, nigro-maculato. 



Ceylon. 



Yellowish brown, with a lighter pubescence ; prothorax with 

 six longitudinal stripes ; elytra with one at the base and three 

 larger rounded spots on each, and antennae black ; legs testaceous ; 

 abdomen pale, spotted with black at the sides. 



Length 5 lines. 



Near G. quatuordechn-maculata, Hope. 



Glenea commissa. 



G. nigro-chalybeata, nitida, vitta communi mediand, prothorace 

 vitta utrinque, elytrisque duabus lateralibus albis. 



Ceylon. 



Shining steel black ; a white hairy stripe, arising from under 

 each eye and uniting above, is continued over the prothorax and 

 along the suture to the apex of the elytra, another on each side of 

 the prothorax, and two at the side of each elytron ; under surface 

 pure white, with a stripe on each side of the thorax, and spots on 

 the abdomen steel black. 



Length 7 lines. 



