163 Mr. H. W.Bates on the Longicom Coleoptera 



truncatis, angulis exterioribus modice productis. Long. 4|-5| 



lin. c? 2 ' 



Head ashy brown. Antennae rusty red, spotless. Thorax 

 widened from the front to the tips of the spines, which are coni- 

 cal and placed a short distance from the hind angles ; surface 

 dark brown, with seven more or less incomplete light-brown or 

 ashy vittse. Scutellum ashy. Elytra tapering from base to apex 

 ( c? ), or more oblong-ovate ( $ ), apex obliquely sinuate-truncate, 

 outer angles produced ; surface shining dark brown, with two 

 broad fasciae (interrupted at the suture) composed of a number 

 of short ashy longitudinal lines ; a few specks near the base and 

 apex and a short line along the outer point of the apex also of an 

 ashy colour. Body beneath and legs clothed with ashy-brown pile. 



(S Apical dorsal plate scarcely emarginated, ventral notched. 



$ Ovipositor very short and broad ; dorsal plate broad and 

 obtuse at the tip. 



Ega; rare. 



23. Nyssodrys promeces, n. sp. 



N. angustata, parum convexa, nigro-brunnea : thorace elytrisque 

 vittis tribus fulvis, his oblique truncatis, angulis suturalibus ob- 

 tusis. Long. 3| lin. S . 



Head ashy brown. Antennae four times the length of the 

 body, scantily furnished with short setae, black. Thorax scarcely 

 widened to the tips of the spines, which are conical and placed 

 nearer the middle than the hind angles ; surface blackish brown, 

 with three tawny vittae. Elytra elongate, narrow, obliquely and 

 obtusely truncated at the apex ; surface punctured, except near 

 the apex, blackish brown ; each elytron with three tawny vittae 

 terminating before reaching the apex, the sutural and central 

 ones having a shorter faint grey streak between them; the 

 apical part has two angular fulvous spots. Body beneath and 

 legs clothed with silky grey pile ; sides of sternum and abdomen 

 with a fulvous line. 



S Apical dorsal plate truncated, ventral broadly notched. 



This curious species approximates in length of antennae, shape, 

 and colours to the Hippopsine group of Lamiaires; but all 

 its essential features show that it is a true Acanthocinite of the 

 Leiopodine section, the basal joint of the antennae having a 

 waved outline beneath, the thorax and head having the shape 

 usual in the Leiopodinae, and the sternums the same outline. 

 Its habits are those of a Hippopsis, clinging, like the species of 

 this and the neighbouring genera, to slender dead twigs ; con- 

 sequently the claw-joints of the tarsi (especially of the middle 

 legs) are longer than is usual in the Acanthocinitae, and have 

 some analogy- to those of the subtribe Oncideritae to which the 



