Mr. F. P. Pascoc <m some new Antliribida>. 431 



posticum maculis cpiatuor minoribus plus minus confluentibus 

 ornato, clvtris laete cyancis striato-punctatis. 

 Long. corp. lin. G^. 



L. dark cyaneous, shining-, and free from pubescence. Head 

 deeply and closely punctured. Prothorax much more sparingly 

 (and less deeply) punctured, with a very short deep oblique 

 fovea on either side behind, bright rufous, with four large rounded 

 spots (two of which are on the disk, and the other two further 

 apart, towards either anterior angle), and with four smaller ones 

 along the hinder margin (the inner two of which are confluent 

 at their base), dark : the extreme hinder margin itself, and the 

 centre of the fore margin, more or less, also dark. Elytra 

 brightly cyaneous, finely and regularly striate-punctatc, and 

 with the interstices closely and minutely punctulated. Body 

 beneath punctured (the abdomen densely so), dark cyaneous, 

 with the anterior portion of the metasternum rufous. 



XLIV. — On some new Anthribidte. 

 By Francis P. Pascoe, F.L.S. &c. 



[Continued from p. 333.] 



Apolecta. 



Head exserted, oblong, convex in front, with a short broad 

 rostrum widely emarginate at the apex. Antennas approximate, 

 very long, slender, filiform, arising from a large semicircular 

 cavity in front of the rostrum and beneath the eye, the first joint 

 long and much thicker than the rest, the second short, a little 

 tumid at the apex, the rest perfectly linear. Eyes distant, lateral, 

 round, entire. Labrum slightly emarginate. Terminal joint 

 of the maxillary palpi elongate, obconic ; of the labial, ovate. 

 Prothorax narrowed anteriorly, the carina forming an angle in 

 the centre towards the base, gradually receding as it approaches 

 the side, where it curves forward to about half the length of the 

 prothorax. Elytra convex, rather wider than the prothorax, the 

 sides subparallel. Legs slender. 



This genus has for its type the Mecocerus ? pai-vulus of Mr. 

 Thomson (Arch. Ent. torn. i. p, 437), which differs in many 

 respects from the true Mecoceri, — i. e. in the form and insertion 

 of the antennae, rostrum, carina, &c. 



Apolecta has a very wide range, being found in Ceylon, Java, 

 Malacca, Borneo, and Aru; but all the species have been hitherto 

 unpublished, except the two here mentioned. 



Apolecta gracilUma. 

 A. rufo grisea, nigro-maculata ; elytris plaga magna communi pone 



