128 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or little-hnown 



impressed punctures j legs smootli and shining, tarsi brownish ; an- 

 tennae shorter than the prothorax, paler at the apex; body smooth 

 beneath. Length 6-6 lines. 



RHmosTMUs [Salpingidee]. 

 Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. ii. p. 231. 



Rliinosiynus WaUacei. 



H. atro-chalybeus, nitidus ; rostro pedibusque rufis ; elytris purpureis ; 

 antennarum funiculo tarsisque luteis. 



Hab. New Guinea (Dorey). 



Ovate, slightly depressed, finely pimctured, smooth and shining ; 

 head deep steel-blue, the rostrum dark reddish-yellow, rather dilated 

 at the apex, the antennse inserted at about the middle, the last three 

 joints, forming a strongly marked club, black ; prothorax deep steel- 

 blue, narrower than the elytra j scutellum very transverse ; elytra dark 

 pui^ple ; femora and tibiae yellowish-red, tarsi pale brownish-yellow ; 

 body beneath chestnut-brown. Length 2^ lines. 



ZoNiTis [Cantharidae]. 

 Fabricius, Syst. Entom. p. 126. 



Zonitis Downesii. 



Z. breviusculus, luteus, punctulatus ; antennis, basi excepta, nigris ; tar- 

 sorum articulo ultimo apiceque elytrorum infuscatis. 



Hab. India (Bombay). 



Rather short, brownish-yellow, the upper sm*face minutely punc- 

 tured; head and prothorax rather glossy, and together considerably 

 more than half the length of the elytra; scutellum rounded posteriorly; 

 elytra much wider than the prothorax at the base, the apex clouded 

 with brown ; antennae scarcely extending to the base of the prothorax, 

 black, the two basal joints yellow ; palpi and mandibles at their tips, 

 and the last joint of all the tarsi above and their claws (more or less) 

 dark bro^m ; legs covered with short silky hairs. Length 6 lines. 



Dedicated to Ezra Downes, Esq., of Calcutta, who, during his 

 residence at Bombay, collected and sent to this country many inter- 

 esting insects from that locality, and after whom was named, as its 

 discoverer, the very fine and remarkable Prionian Oantharocnemis 



Downesii. 



Teigonops [Curculionidse]. 



Guerin-Meneville, Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 128. 

 Trigonous Jelcelii. (PL VII. fig. 9.) 



T. piceus, punctato-granulatus, squamis viridescentibus tectus; elytris 



brevibus, pei'pendiculariter deflexis ; femoribus basi rufis. 

 Hab. Celebes (Manado). 



