224 Lovgicornia 3Ialayana. 



Dasyerrus. 



Caput antice latum, tuberibiis antenniferis validis, distantibus. 

 Oculi parvi, profunde emarginati. Antennce corpore breviores ; 

 scapo breviusculo, subcylindrico ; articulo tertio lono-iore ; 

 caeteris sensini brevioiibus. Prothorax subquadratus, lateri- 

 bus antice dentatiis. Elytra ovata. Pedes robusti ; femora 

 medio incrassata ; tibice intennedias integrae ; tarsi aequales. 

 Pro- et mesa-sterna elevata. 



The type of this genus is very much like a large unicolorous 

 specimen of Parmena Solieri. The genus is, however, sufficiently 

 distinct from Parmena* on account of its prothorax, sterna and 

 intermediate tibiae. The anterior acetabula are broadly angulated 

 externally. 



Dasyerrus pilosus. (PI. X. fig. 8.) 



D. fuscus, dense griseo-pubescens, pilis numerosis elongatis 

 dispersis. 



Hab. — Flores, Timor. 



Dark brown, covered with a dense greyish pile, slightly mottled 

 with fulvous, and having numerous slender hairs scattered over 

 the upper surface, legs, and antennae ; head narrower than the 

 prothorax, thinly punctured in front ; prothorax coarsely punctured, 

 nearly quadrate in the Flores specimen (^), more transverse 

 in the Timor one, which is apparently a female ; scutellum semi- 

 circular ; elytra oblong, rather wider than the prothorax, coarsely 

 punctured, slightly rounded at the sides, the shoulders nearly- 

 obsolete, the apex rounded ; body beneath and legs dark brown, 

 sparingly pubescent, the tarsi ashy ; antennae scarcely so long as 

 the body in the male, much shorter in the female. 



Length 4i (^)— 5i (?) lines. 



* This genus is generally attributed to Latreille (Reg. An. v. 125). He, 

 however, does little more than quote the name, which was a catalogue name 

 of Megerle's, mentions no species, and so far attempts to suppress it, that 

 he asserts that such very difterent species as " tristis, luguhrls, funesta" (now 

 forming the genus Morimus) " offer the same characters"! ! ! The first de- 

 scription is really due to Serville, in Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, iv. 98 (1835). 

 The type P. pilosa (Dej.)) Serv., had its name, I venture to think, most unne- 

 cessarily changed by M. Mulsant, because there is a Pogonocherus called 

 "pilosus." It so happened, however, that two years before Serville published 

 his description, Brull6 had described another species under the same name. 

 This, therefore, retains the name, while Serville's pilosa must be replaced by 

 Mulsant's "Solieri." 



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