BY W. MACLEAY, ESQ., F.L.8. 251 



458. — Lacon alternans. n. sp. 

 Length 4j lines. 

 Reddish brown, opaque, elongate, flat, punctate and clothed 

 with cinereous scales. Head slightly depi-essed in the midSle. 

 Thorax longer than the width, rounded on the sides and almost 

 truncate behind, with the posterior angles curved outwards, 

 rather rounded, and without carination. Elytra subacutely 

 rounded at the apex, and covered with rows of large punctures, 

 with every second interstice subelevated and densely clothed 

 with scales. 



459 — Lacon maculatus. n. sp. 

 Length 3| lines. 

 Brown, opaque, flat, densely punctate, and clothed with very 

 short setiform scales of a brown colour, interspersed with numerous 

 indistinct spots of reddish brown and cinerous scales. Thorax 

 with the median line traceable, the posterior angles curving 

 slightly outwards and truncate at the apex, and the base rather 

 deeply bi-emarginate. Scutullum nearlj^ round. Elytra strongly 

 striato-punctate, slightly widened about the middle, and narrow- 

 ed and rounded at the apex. Antennse and tarsi pale red. 



460. — Lacon gbandlatus. n. sp. 

 Length 3 lines. 



Dark brown, opaque, broad, flat, densely punctate, granulose 

 looking, and scaly. Thorax much, longer than the width, with 

 the posterior angles not externally produced, and with the base 

 deeply bi-emarginate. Scutellum subtransverse. Elytra strongly 

 bisinuate at the base, not much longer than the width, narrowed 

 roundly at the apex, angularly sinuated behind the humeral 

 angles, and striato-punctate with the alternate interstices subcos- 

 tate. Beneath with the extremities of the prothorax, the lateral 

 margins of the abdominal segments, and the legs, piceous red. 



461. — -Aphileus lucanoides, Cand. Mon. 1, pagelS4, 

 t.S.f.5. 



