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Four coarse uncouth-looking species comprising this genus are 

 in the collection. In addition to the diagnoses that may be 

 gathered from the table {ante, p. 58), the absence of armature at 

 the sides of the prothorax will serve at once to distinguish it from 

 Escharodes and Ax'iotliea, its nearest allies. The species of Sotades 

 have all a black shining derm, closely covered with short flat hairs 

 or scales of various shades of grey, with the usual irregular oblique 

 patch or band just behind the middle, which characterizes so many 

 of this sub-family. It may be observed, however, that these scales 

 appear very liable to be rubbed off. From amongst this pubes- 

 cence numerous small black shining granules crop up. 



Sotades "platypus. (PI. VI. fig. 4.) 



S. grisescente-squamosus ; prothorace aequali, apice lineis 

 duabus transversim impressis ; aniennis subfiliformibus, in- 

 crassatis. 



Hah. — Ternate, Kaioa, Morty. 



Closely covered with a pale greyish scaly pubescence, except 

 where the granules appear ; head with numerous small granules 

 in front, almost buried in short thickly-set scales, a whitish patch 

 below the eye, the median line confined, to the back of the 

 vertex ; epistome lemon-yellow, short ; lip narrowed at the base ; 

 mandibles black ; palpi pitchy ; prothorax about equal in length 

 and breadth, irregular with mostly transversely-oblong granules, 

 two depressed lines towards the apex, the anterior the most 

 marked; scutellum transversely scutiform ; elytra very convex, 

 the granules mostly in lines, behind the middle an irregular zig- 

 zag paler patch mixed with dark brown towards the suture ; body 

 beneath grey, spotted with brown ; legs very robust, the femora 

 finely granulated ; tarsi broad, all covered with a rather delicate 

 pile, sprinkled with darker grey ; antennae with the thickness of 

 the joints diminishing very slightly towards the apex, about a 

 third longer than the body in the male, brownish with very dis- 

 tinct grey spots. 



Length 14 lines. 



Sotades caprinus. 

 S. griseo-squamosus ; prothorace Eequali, apice baud lineato ; 



elytris granulis sparsis vestitis ; antennis setaceis. 

 Hab. — Morty, Batchian. 



Covered with a dark-grey pubescence j head dark brown, with 

 coarse depressed points and without granules, a iew scattered 



