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



One of these, Neostenus (Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, iv. p. 91), on account 

 of the position of the anterior coxae, I am disposed to place with the 

 Cerambycidae, perhaps not far from Bimia. This last, also, is a very 

 isolated genus. 



Obrida [Cerambycidae]. 

 White, Stokes's Voyage, App. i. p. 510. 



• Obrida comata. 



O. nigro-chalybeata, sparse griseo-pubescens, hirsuta; elytris singulis 

 macula magna mediana flava. 



Hab. Queensland. 



Very dark steel-blue, lightly covered with a pale gTeyish pubescence, 

 with scattered, erect, stiffish hairs interspersed j head and prothorax 

 roughly and closely punctured, the anterior and posterior margins of 

 the latter of nearly equal breadth ,• scutellum triangular, covered with 

 long silky hairs ; elytra short, broader than the prothorax, the sides 

 parallel, each furnished with two not very prominent costae, and in 

 the middle a large transverse yellow spot not attaining the margin or 

 the suture -, body beneath shining steel-blue, sparingly punctured with 

 a few scattered hairs ; legs more or less hairy, the femora shining steel- 

 blue, base of the posterior testaceous j tarsi rufous brown; antenna9 

 entirely black, about two-thirds the length of the body. Length 4 lines. 



Perfectly homogeneous with Obrida fascialis, but broader and more 

 robust, with the antennae and legs entirely black (except the base of 

 the posterior femora), and the broad orange band on the elytra of the 

 former replaced by two pale-yellow patches ; it is ako more pubes- 

 cent, furnished with long scattered hairs. 



Pyrestes [Cerambycidae]. 

 Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, iv. p. 96. 



Pyrestes cardinalis. 



P. ruber, nitidus ; scutello, pedibus corporeque infra nigris. 



Hah. Hong Kong. 



Dark red, brighter on the elytra, shining, with a pubescence consist- 

 ing of a few short black hairs, but more numerous on the prothorax ; 

 head dark brownish-red, thickly punctured ; antennae dark brown, the 

 basal joints coral-red, except at their extremities j eyes black ; prothorax 

 about half as long again as broad, rugosely punctured, the punctures 

 large and irregular ; scutellum narrowly triangidar, black ; elytra dark 

 blood-red, coarsely and deeply punctured at the base, but gradually 

 more scattered and shallower towards the apex ; legs black, covered with 

 short stiff fulvous hairs; body beneath black, shining, moderately 

 punctured, slightly hairy. Length 7 lines. 



