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the rest pale fuscous ; eyes and apex of jaws black. Thorax 

 transverse, sides obliquely converging from base to apex ; upper 

 surface transverely convex, coarsely but not closely punctured ; 

 apical margin truncate, obsoletely sinuate in the middle, surface 

 on either side, just behind the margin, transversely grooved ; on 

 either side at the base is a protuberance similar to the one in the 

 preceding species. Scutellum trigonate, its apex truncate, indis- 

 tinctly notched. Elytra similar in form and punctation to those 

 of T, fVeslwoodii, the apex of the humeral callus rather more pro- 

 duced. Body beneath clothed with coarser hairs than the upper 

 surface; abdomen entirely nigro-piceous, with the exception of the 

 extreme base, where it passes between the hinder coxae. Metaster- 

 num transversely striolate, mammary prominences more elevated 

 than in either of the two foregoing insects ; apex of fifth segment 

 with a semicircular incision, immediately in front of which is a 

 shallow oblong fovea. Hinder thighs less thickened than in T. 

 Westwoodii ; spines on their under surface similarly arranged to 

 those in that insect ; apex of claws piceous. 



The absence of a frontal fovea, the pale fuscous antennas and 

 broader thorax, together with the more prominent mammary 

 processes on the metasternum, will separate this species from its 

 congeners. 



The following species of this family, published since the date 

 of Mons. Lacordaire's monograph, has not been seen by me. 



Genus PcEciLOMORPHA, Hope. 

 Lac. Mon. Phyt. i. p. 721. 

 1. Pcec'domorpha Gerstaeckeri, Westw. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. 3rd Ser. ii. p. 273. 

 " Oblonga, subparallela, crebre punctata ; elytris profundius 

 punctatis, rufo-fulva, luteo-setosa, dimidio apicali elytrorum 

 fulvo ; mandibulis, articulis 7 ultimis antennarum, maculisque 

 duabus rotundatis in medio elytrorum, metasterni lateribus 

 cum pleuris, macula ovali externa femorum posticorum, et basi 

 segmenti ultimi ventralis (integri) nigris ; femoribus postiiis 

 magnis, subtus pone medium tuberculo brevi conico armatis ; 

 tibiis 4 posticis valde curvatis ; metasterno valde convexo. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 4. 

 Habitat in Java (D. Goring). In Mus. Reg. Berolinensi." 



This species is remarkable as being the only one of the genus 

 which is not African. 



