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two; from this point it is prolonged downwards nearly parallel 

 to the latter half of the second line, and becomes gradually 

 lost on the surface of the disc ; in addition to these raised lines, 

 each elytron is furnished with five large tubercles, one placed near 

 the outer margin just below its middle, the others on the sub- 

 apical space. 



Genus Hymetes, Lac. 

 Mon. Phyt. ii. p. 861. 



1 . Hymetes Javana, Lac. 

 Mon. Phyt. ii. p. 862. 



" Quadrato-elongata, laete rufo-cinnaraomea ; prothorace late- 

 ribus reticulato-rugoso, ferriigineo-maculato, elevato-gibboso, 

 gibbere subgloboso, postice compresso, reticulato, dorso 

 vage canaliculato ac utrinque tricarinato ; elytris punctatis, 

 singulo lineis elevatis quatuor in tubercula abeuntibus ac inter 

 se connexis, tuberculisque paucis, instructo." (Lacordaire.) 



Long. 2| lin. 



Hab. Java. 



Fam. CRYPTOCEPHALID^, Suffr. 



Genus BucHARis, n. g. 



Corpus subquadrato-rotundatum aut ovatum, postice attenua- 

 tum, valde convexum. Caput breve ; oculis distantibus, intus 

 emarginatis ; antennis corporis dimidio brevioribus, articulis 

 5 vel 6 ultimis compressis at paullo dilatatis. Thorax con- 

 vexus, basi utrinque leviter bisinuatus, baseos medio in 

 lobum trigonatum, apice integrum, in basin scutelli receptum, 

 postice productus, lateribus rotundato-angustatis. (Tab. IIL 

 fig. 6.) Scutellum parvum, non elevatum, planum, intra mar- 

 gines elytrorum receptum, basi emarginata. Elytra convexa, 

 laevia, regulariter punctato-striata. Pedes mediocres ; un- 

 guiculis appendiculatis. Proslennim longitudine paullo latius, 

 planum, antice vix productum, postice concavo-emarginatum 

 aut truncatum. 



I have founded the present genus for the reception of two new 

 species of Cryptocephal'idcs, collected by Mr. Wallace. In form of 

 thorax it agrees with Prasonotus and Difropidiis, differing, how- 

 ever, in having the apex of its basal lobe entire and received into 



