346 Mr. E. P. Pascoe on some new or little-hiown 



Palimna [Lamiidae]. 



Head moderately broad, quadrate in front. Eyes widely emarginate. 

 Antennae in c? twice as long as the body, distant at the base, arising 

 from two short tubercles, eleven-jointed, the basal joint short, sub- 

 conical, the third twice as long, straight, the fourth shorter, and with 

 the remainder, except the eleventh, subequal. Palpi slender. Pro- 

 thorax irregular, subquadrate, not broader than the head. Elytra more 

 or less subtrigonate, convex, irregular, much broader than the prothorax. 

 Legs robust, the anterior pair in c? elongate, and protibise curved ; tarsi 

 short, the two intermediate joints dilated, the claw-joint large ; pro- 

 and mesostema simple, the latter dilated posteriorly. 



The type of this genus is Golsinda tessellata, Paso. (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. 1857, p. 49). At that time Golsinda was a MS. name of M. 

 Blanchard's, but recently M. J. Thomson (' Essai Ceramb.' p. 341) 

 has published it with Golsinda corallina ("WTiite) as the type. But 

 the latter is not congeneric with the species described by me, and 

 hence it becomes necessary to give the former a new generic name. 

 The differences between the two genera are, that in Golsinda, Thoms., 

 the basal joint of the antennae is elongate — as long as the third, in 

 fact — and club-shaped, while in this it is short — ^not more than half 

 the length of the third — and subconical ; the mesosternum in the 

 former is produced anteriorly and bilobed behind, in the latter it is 

 dilated behind, and not produced anteriorly ; there are also secondary 

 characters in connexion with the antennae, prothorax, habit, and 

 coloration. Olivier has given a figure of a female of a species of this 

 genus (Ceramhyx annulatus, 67, t. 20. f. 151), and described the 

 male, which M. Chevrolat is disposed to think may be identical with 

 P. tessellata. I have, however, long been of opinion that Olivier's 

 insect represented another species more nearly allied to, or perhaps 

 identical with, one in the British Museum labelled " Golsinda reticu- 

 lata," White : this agrees in some respects better with the figure ; and 

 both are from India, while the species described by me has only been 

 received from Borneo. Another species is described in the Entomo- 

 logical Society's * Transactions,' v. p. 41 (P. infausta). 



Cacia [Lamiidae]. 

 Newman, The Entomologist, p. 290. 



Cacia histrionica. 



C. atra, pubescens ; capite prothoraceque lineis tribus, elytris scutellum 



versus, et fasciis duabus apicalibus albis. 

 Hab. Ceram. 



Black, sparsely pubescent, punctured ; head with an elevated line 



