2 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera and 8j)ecies of 



England contains only seventeen (or, with the doubtful and 

 introduced, twenty-seven) species, while the countries sur- 

 rounding the Mediterranean have, according to M.deMarseul's 

 Catalogue, 1327 species. From Australia and Tasmania we 

 have about 210 described — a number probably far below that 

 contained in the rich collections of Melbourne and Sydney, 

 and which we cannot doubt will be still greatly increased as 

 those countries are more explored. The lists which Dr. Howitt 

 has favoured me with from time to time bear evidence of the 

 narrow limits in which a large number of species are localized. 

 There is some confusion in regard to the use of the terms 

 for those parts of the elytra known as the " epipleura " and 

 the " epipleural fold"*, which it is necessary to notice : when 

 only one is present or strongly marked, either term is often 

 used indiiferently ; while the former, in a second sense, is 

 supposed to express generally the descending or inflected sides 

 of the elytra. In future I propose to use the term " epi- 

 pleura" for that part of the flank of the elytron marked off 

 from the rest by a line more or less sharply defined ; when 

 there is a descending side above this line, as in Zojplierosis^ I 

 propose to call it the '^ pleura." This should have been the 

 epipleura, if the word had been used in the strictest sense ; 

 but it is too late now to attempt to alter its ordinary significa- 

 tion. The stripe along the lower border of the epipleura will 

 be the " epipleural fold " {plica epipleuralis) ; when nearly 

 obsolete, there is still very often a sort of raised line or border 

 which marks its position. Good examples of well-marked 

 epipleura and epipleural fold, without the pleura, will be found 

 in our common Blaps mortisaga^ or, still better, in the genus 

 Acts (Akis). 



Orcopagia. 

 Subfamily Boletophagin^. 



Antennce clavatae, lO-articulatte ; clava biarticulata. 

 Tihice anticcB crescentiformes. 



Head vertical, deeply sunk in the prothorax, excavated in 

 front between the eyes and clypeus, the latter cornuted, the 

 lip lying in the space between the mandibles ; antennary ridge 

 bilobed. Eyes small, transverse, impinged on by the anten- 

 nary ridges, but not divided. Antennae clavate, ten-jointed, 

 the scape elongate ; the third joint longer than the second, the 

 rest to the eighth gradually shorter, the r^inth and tenth form- 

 ing a large oval pubescent club, the latter twice as large as the 



* " Repli epipleuraV^ of M. Lacordaire. "Fold" is a bad rendering of 

 " repli,''' but I know of none better. Dr. Leconte does not appear to no- 

 tice this part. 



