474 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or Uttle-Jcnown 



from the oral organs as distinctive of nearly allied genera, principally 

 because they are difficult to ascertain, and are probably assumed in 

 the majority of cases, except in the type of the genus : but in this 

 instance the toothed inner maxillary lobe is an exception to the 

 characters of this subfamily as laid down by M. Lacordaire. The 

 mentum is also very peculiar, it is very much produced in front in a 

 nearly semicircular form, with short sides each of which gives off a 

 sort of triangular process at right angles to the main axis, in this 

 way forming a kind of enclosure round the base of the lower lip. 

 The clypeus let into the front and distinct from the antennary orbits, 

 is also very different from the same organ in Eucyrtus, where it runs 

 into and seems a part of the orbits. 



Gauromaia dives. 



G. purpureo-metallica, nitida; corpora infra, antennis pedibusque nigris. 



Hah. Malacca (Mount Ophir). 



Metallic purple, smooth and shining ; head and prothorax finely 

 punctured, the latter transverse, roimded and finely margined at the 

 sides and base, the latter and apex of nearly equal breadth; scu- 

 tellum triangular; elytra ovate, broader than the prothorax, striato- 

 punctate, punctures small and approximate, spaces between the striae 

 broad and minutely punctulate; body beneath and legs black; femora not 

 thickened, the anterior slightly cm-ved, a faint shade of coral-red in the 

 middle ; tibiae nearly equal in length, more or less curved ; tarsi sub- 

 equal ; antennae black, with the last four joints pubescent. Length 7 

 lines. 



Phaedis [Cnodalinae]. 

 Characteres ut in Eucyrto ; sed clypeus productus ; mentum minus transver- 

 sum, in medio carinatum, Antennce breviores, articulis magis transver- 

 sis. Prothorax apice paulo productus. Femora incrassata, in medio 

 subtus dentata. 



The last character also distinguishes this genus from the foregoing, 

 from which, moreover, it differs in the larger comparative size of the 

 claw-joint, and the shortness of the anterior tibiae. 



Phaedis elysius. 

 P. caeruleus, nitidus ; elytris aureo-seneis, lineato-punctatis. 

 Hah. Sarawak. 



Sky-blue, very smooth and glossy ; head rather remotely punctured, 

 the lateral line, separating the clypeus from the front, extending above 

 the base of the former ; antennae reddish ferruginous, pubescent, scarcely 

 longer than the breadth of the head ; palpi pale ferruginous ; prothorax 

 with numerous small, rather remote punctures, finely bordered on all 



