56 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or Uttle-known 



Macratria fumosa. 



M. mfo-brimnea ; pedibus (posticis exceptis), palpis antennisque fiilvis, 

 his apicem versus infuscatis ; capite pedibusque posticis nigris. 



Hah. India (Dacca). 



Light reddish -browii, with a pale greyish pile ; head and prothorax 

 very finely punctured, the latter rather broad and somewhat ovate j 

 scutelluni subtransverse ; elytra pimctured, &c., as in the preceding ; legs 

 (except the posterior pair), palpi, and antennae fulvous, the latter with 

 the last three joints dark brown ; head and hind legs black, except the 

 extremity of the tarsi, which are pale yellow. The claws in this species 

 appear to be broadly toothed at their base. Length 2^ lines. 



Macratria suhguttata. 



M. atra, nitida, sparse albo-hirta ; elytris, singulo maculis duabus, fere ob- 



soletis, albis. 

 Hah. Moluccas (Batchian). 



Glossy black, with much-dispersed whitish hairs ; each elytron with 



two rather indistinct white or somewhat ashy spots, one a little before 



the middle, the other the same distance beyond it 5 antennae, palpi, and 

 ' mouth pale yellow, the former gradually deepening towards the apex 



into black; tarsi pale yellowish, except the first joint of the posterior 



pair. Length 3 lines. 



Emydodes [Lagriidae]. 



Head very small, rounded behind the eyes, then contracting into a neck, 

 which is nearly immersed in the prothorax. Eyes large, oblong, emar- 

 ginate, transverse, and approximating both above and beneath. Labial 

 palpi very small ; maxillary elongate, the temiinal joint ovate, pointed. 

 Antennae robust, shorter than the body, arising close to the eye, the 

 first joint tumid, the second very short, the third to the tenth thick, 

 triangular, with a bifid prolongation at the apex of each on one side, 

 the eleventh elongate-ovate. Prothorax slightly transverse, roimded 

 anteriorly, twice the breadth of the head, but much narrower at the 

 base than the elytra, its parapleurae confoimded with the pronotum. 

 Elytra depressed, with a subovate outline, the epipleura strongly bent in 

 beneath. Legs robust ; anterior coxfe large, approximate, shortly cylin- 

 drical ; tibiae not spurred, the four posterior thickened in the middle ; 

 tarsi short, the penultimate joint subbilobed; claws undivided, slightly 

 toothed at the base. 



A very curious genus, which, if rightly referred to Lagriidae (and of 

 this I have little doubt), differs entirely in the remarkable structiu'e 

 of the antennae, in which it somewhat resembles the Pyrochroidae. 

 From my solitary specimen, I cannot make sure that the anterior 

 acetabula are closed ; they appear to be so, however. As far as I 



