a)id descriptions of neio species in the British Museum, 489 



and very smooth and shining above, the puncturation 

 being fine and sparse. The head is finely pubescent, the 

 pronotum very broad, lightly punctured, with its sides 

 straight and very divergent behind, feebly rounded in front, 

 the front angles produced but not very sharp, the hind 

 angles rather acute, the base feebly trisinuated, not dis- 

 tinctly margined, the lateral foveae well marked. The 

 elytra are distinctly but sparingly and unevenly punctured. 

 The lower surface is clothed with fine silky hair, and the 

 metasternum has in the middle a large cluster of coarse, 

 evenly distributed punctures. The antennae are very 

 slender but relatively very short, the length being con- 

 siderably less than the width of the pronotum at the base. 

 The third joint is decidedly longer than the rest. 



Beccaria ovata, sp. n. 



Nigra, nitida, singulo elytro lunula Immerali punctaque sub- 

 apicali flavis ornato; ovata, convexa, pronoto parvo, ,sat crebre 

 punctato, utrinque bifossulato, lateribus arcuatis, medio laevissinie 

 excisis, angulis posticis paulo productis, foveis basalibus linearibus, 

 basi trisinuato, anguste marginato ; clytris punctis magnis et parvis 

 interniixtis inaequaliter sparsis, lateribas pone humeros leviter 

 angulatis, apicibus paulo productis ; pedibus modice longibus, 

 antennis gracilibus, articulis 1-8 elongatis, 9 triangulari, 10 brevi, 

 lato, 11 subquadrato. 



Long. 8 mm. ; lat. 6 mm. 



Philippine Is., Mindanao : Iligan {Prof. C. F. Baker). 



A single male specimen has been kindly presented to the 

 British Museum by Prof. Baker. 



A peculiar and isolated species in which the regularly 

 rounded outline, producing in most of the forms so close a 

 resemblance to Coccinellidae, is absent. The oval shape, 

 with the slender antennae and legs (especially the hind ones) 

 prevent such a resemblance in the present case. It is a 

 shining black insect, with an orange half-ring upon each 

 elytron, enclosing a black shoulder-spot, and a round orange 

 spot before the apex. The abdomen is also pale except the 

 basal segment. The pronotum is relatively small and much 

 narrower than the conjoined elytra, finely margined all 

 round, with the rounded outer margins a little interrupted 

 in the middle and the lateral foveae linear. The curvature 

 of the sides of the elytra is also a little irregular, a slight 



