178 Mr. A. Sidney Olliff's remarks on a small 



TEOGOSITID^E. 



Narcisa, Pascoe. 



Narcisa lynceus, n. s. 



Oblong, scarcely narrower in front than behind, dark 

 chestnut-brown, covered with broad ashy-grey scales, 

 intermingled here and there with blackish ones. Head 

 embedded within an emargination of the prothorax. 

 Eyes black, the superior pair very large, transversely 

 ovate and approximated above. Antennae reddish brown, 

 club lighter. Prothorax about twice as broad as long, 

 moderately strongly emarginate in front, the sides of 

 the emargination very oblique, with a smooth patch on 

 each side at the base, anterior angles rounded, posterior 

 angles more so, sides strongly arcuate and finely serru- 

 late. Scutellum very small, sides parallel, rounded 

 behind. Elytra three times the length of the head and 

 prothorax together, rather broader at the base than the 

 prothorax, gradually widening for about two-thirds of 

 their length, then gently rounded to the apex, crenate- 

 striate, the alternate interstices with large deep punc- 

 tures placed at irregular intervals, shoulders rectangular, 

 sides straight, with very fine rounded serratures ; each 

 elytron with three chestnut -brown patches formed of 

 deep punctures and scales, the first before the middle on 

 the disc, the second on the margin a little behind the 

 middle, the third still nearer the apex and close to the 

 suture, the three together forming a triangle of which 

 no two sides are equal, with an elongated oblique patch 

 close to the apex. Under side dark brown, with a bronzy 

 tint, rather coarsely rugulose, sparingly covered with 

 ashy-grey scales. Meso- and metasternum less strongly 

 rugulose. Abdominal segments very finely rugulose, 

 thickly covered with fine ashy-grey scales. Legs bronzy, 

 sparsely clothed with smaller scales. Length, 9 mm. ; 

 greatest width, 4 mm. 



Of this interesting species, the third and largest of 

 the genus yet described, only a single example was 

 taken. The form of the prothorax and structure of the 

 eyes are very peculiar. In Narcisa decidua, Pascoe, its 

 nearest ally, the superior eyes are not nearly so large 

 nor so close together ; the anterior angles of the pro- 

 thorax in N. lynceus are not so prominent nor the sides 

 as strongly serrulate as in the other species ; the 



