846 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera 



versis, clavam perfoliatam formantibus. Protlwrax transversus, 

 apice fortiter emarginatus, lateribus antice rotundatus, postice 

 constrittus, basi leviter rotundatus. Elytra ovata, supra deprcssa. 

 Pedes a^qualcs ; tihice antics subdcntata^, apice calcaratae. Pro- 

 sternum latum, postice truncatuni. Metastermnn apice productum, 

 in medio canaliculatum, Mesosterman triangulare. 



M. Lacordaire's " ti-ibu iii. GTmnochilides " of the Trogo- 

 sitidffi is distinguished by the " essential character " of the 

 divided eyes, either common, apparently, to both sexes, or pe- 

 culiar to the male. In GymnocMla, Acrops {Anaci/pta), and 

 Narcisa I have always found tliem divided, in reality four 

 eyes; in Leperina'^, including eight species, never. Lacor- 

 daire also finds tliem simple in that genus. Mannerheim, 

 however, out of a hundred individuals of the Siberian species 

 of Gt/mnochila, only obtained a single male ; and in this the 

 eyes were completely divided. It would therefore seem to be 

 questionable wliether the Australian Lepen'me are rightly in- 

 chided in it. So far as the genus before us is concerned, 

 having only one specimen, I am miable to say if the undivided 

 eyes are persistent in both sexes. The genus is perhaps most 

 nearly allied to Lejjerina ; but its habit, colour, and clothing 

 are altogether peculiar : the latter is neither scales nor hairs, 

 but appears, particularly on the elyti-a, to be a densely matted 

 material, like the finest velvet ; the scutellum alone is covered 

 Avith long, closely set, silky hairs. A short diagnosis of this 

 species was given in the ' Proceedings of the Entomological 

 Society,' 1868, p. xi. 



Elestora fulgurata. PI. XIV. fig. 1. 



E. aterrima, maeulis aurautiacis oniata ; capite sat remote punctate ; 

 antcnuis glabris, nitidis ; prothoracc iu medio paulo excavate, 

 lateribus tenuiter sulcato-marginato ; scutello pilis lougiusculis 

 aurantiacis dense tecto ; elytris postice paulo hitioribus, dorso 

 planatis, lineis longitudinalibus subtiliter elevatis, maeulis mag- 

 nis quatuor decoratis, singulis una exteriore ante medium, una 

 postice ad suturam fere connexa ; corpore infra pedibusque nigris, 

 opacis. Long. G| lin. 



Hob. Penang. 



EJacatis Jyncea. 



E. pallide testacea. supra pilosula, elytris nigro fasciatis et macu- 

 latis ; capite protlioraoe(]ue fuscescentibus, hoc capite manifeste 

 angustiore, lateribus baud denticulato, angulis posticis rotundatis; 

 elytris prothoracc latioribus, sat breviusculis, postice gradatim 



* Lepcriiia fiscicidata, Redt. (Novar. Reise, Col. p. 37, pi. '2. fig. 3), is 

 evidently L. turbuta. Pasc. Joiirn. of Entom. ii. p. 2t>. 



