32 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or little-known 



Dark greenisli blue, the whole upper surface finely corrugated 5 head 

 coarsely punctured in front, epistome dark brown, shining, lip rounded, 

 covered with greyish hairs, eyes blaclt j prothorax scarcely longer than 

 broad, irregidarly rounded at the sides ; scutellum triangular, very con- 

 cave ; elytra nearly parallel, without raised lines ; body beneath shining 

 chalybeate blue, sparsely pubescent; femora blue, the posterior very 

 slightly clavate ; tibiae and tarsi blue, covered with short stiff hairs, claws 

 reddish testaceous ; antennae blue, the basal joint coarsely punctured, 

 the last four joints in the female very short and thick. Length 5 lines. 



This long-known species has not, so far as I know, been hitherto 

 described. It may be at once distinguished from its congeners by 

 its short and corrugated prothorax ; but, like the others, its colour is 

 more decidedly blue than green. 



Apodasya [Lamiidae]. 

 Caput parvum, verticale ; ociilis emarginatis. Antcnnce pilosae, articulo 

 basali subcylindrico, tertio longissimo, caeteris brevissiniis. Prothorax 

 gibbosus, subquadratus, lateraliter spinosus. Elytra parallela. Tarsi 

 breves. Pro- et mesosternum simplicia, acetabula antica angiilata. 

 Corpus subelongatum. 



Chcetosoma pilosum of Dejean's Catalogue is the type of this genus, 

 but as the generic name has been used for one of the Cucujidse, it is 

 necessaiy to substitute another. In the above work it was placed 

 between Desmipliora and Cloniocerus, but it appears to me to be 

 more nearly related to Hehestola. It is not mentioned by M. James 

 Thomson in his ' Essai,' &c. ; indeed it seems to be a very scarce 

 insect, only to be seen in a few old collections. My specimen is 

 from the collection of Mr. Waterhouse. 



Apodasya jpilosa. 



A. ferruginea, grisescente-pubescens, pilis longis albis nigrisque tecta; 

 prothorace disco nigro ; antennis pedibusque infuscatis. 



Hab. South Africa. 



Ferruginous, covered with a very fine greyish pubescence, and with 

 long erect white hairs mingled with black ; head rather small ; epi- 

 stome and lip veiy distinct, the latter rounded anteriorly ; palpi pointed ; 

 eyes deeply emarginate ; antennae \evy hairy, arising from two diverging 

 tubercles, shorter than the body, the basal joint subcylindrical, the 

 third as long as the rest together, a dense fascicle of black hairs enve- 

 loping the fourth joint and apex of the third ; prothorax short, irregularly 

 gibbous, a strong tooth on each side posteriorly, the disk wdth a large 

 black spot; scutellum very small, black; elytra parallel, elongate, 

 broader than the prothorax, very coarsely punctured ; body beneath 

 yellowish ferruginous, the sides of the metathorax and base of the 

 abdomen brown ; legs brownish. I^ength 5 lines. 



