the Family Pyrocliroidse. 3J5 



2. (3) Size larger (17 mm.) ; eyes of cT separated by 



a space about as wide as the length of 



second joint of antenna niponensis, Lew. 



3. (2) Size smaller (13 mm.); eyes of cJ almost con- 



tiguous above ocularis, Lew. 



4. (1) Second joint of antennae strongly transverse; 



joints 3-6 of J subtriangular ; upper sur- 

 face unicolorous, fulvous 5. 



n. (6) Legs testaceous. (S. India.) 7nadurensis, Pic. 



6. (5) Legs and underside fu.scous. (Assam.) (PI. XII. 



fig- 2.) assatnensis, Blr. 



Phyllocladus, gen. nov. 



Both tlie species that are placed in this genus were origi- 

 nally described as belonging to Dendroides. Though the 

 eyes in the male are more closely approximate than is usual 

 in Pyrochroa, the structure of the whole insect, especially 

 that of the head and antennae, is very different from that 

 of Dendroides. The head is elongate, with the frontal 

 sculpture of the (^ oi a. different type from that usual iu the 

 family, taking the form of two longitudinal subcontiguous 

 depressions. The most remarkable feature of the genus, 

 however, is afforded by the antennae in the ^ . The 

 appendage of each joint arises as a flat expansion along 

 the length of the joint, and forms a lamellate ramus, each of 

 which is twisted on its axis, so that they lie one against 

 another like the pages of a book. The second joint is 

 elongate. AnteuucE of very similar form are found iu Pseudo- 

 pyrochroa anteunalis, Blr. 



The two species placed here are very similar, being large, 

 with black head and bright red thorax and elytra. M. Pic 

 has kindly compared them for me, and says that they are 

 certainly distinct, P. mat/uificus, Blr., from Burma, having a 

 smaller head and the elytra more expanded bcliind than 

 P.yrandijjtnnis, Fie, from China. (Type, P.magnijicus, Blr.) 



P. magnijicus ? is the species figured by Fowler in the 

 ' Fauna of British India/ Introd. fig. 7Q, p. 172 (see also 

 PI. XII. fig. 3). 



Neopyrochroa, gen. nov. 



A new genns seems to be required for the North-American 

 species hitherto placed in Pyrochroa. They differ con- 

 siderably from the European species of this genus, notably 

 in the size of the eyes, which are large and e.\tend nearly to 

 the back of the head, to the almost complete extrusion of 

 any visible genal area between them and the neck. 



The type of the genus is N. Jlubellutu, Fabr. 



