436 Mr. J. S. Baly on new Genera and Species of Phytopliaga. 



the ? moderately thickened, unarmed. The whole surface of the 

 body covered with coarse, suberect, fulvous hairs, mingled here 

 and there with black. 



Pcecilomorpha Thoreyi. 

 P. elongata, postice attenuata, pallide rufo-fusca, pilis depressis dense 

 vestita ; antennis, thorace (hoc limbo prsetermisso) femoribusque 

 anticis dorso piceis : clytiis sordide llavis, })0stice ct ad latcra 

 fuscis, marginibus lateralibus piceis ; linea suturali vix ante me- 

 dium fere ad apicem cxteusa, medio dilatata, Havo-albo pilosa. 

 Long. 5j lin. 



Hub. Old Calabar. 



Head broad, closely punctured ; eyes large, prominent ; epi- 

 stome rather broader than long, separated from the face by a 

 deep transverse groove, its surface smooth and shining, impressed 

 on either side below the upper angles with coarse punctures ; it 

 is also clothed on either side on the same spot with a patch of 

 adprcssed hairs; face plane, closely covered with distinct punc- 

 tures; on its lower edge, at the middle, is a short raised smooth 

 line. Antennrc not equal in length to the head and thorax, ])iceous, 

 their basal joints obscure rufo-fnlvous. Thorax subglobosc, its 

 apex truncate, constricted at tlie base, sides rounded, scarcely 

 narrowed in front, surface closely punctured, covered with ad- 

 pressed hairs, a narrow line down the middle of the disk nitidous, 

 inipunctate; piceous, the entire limb rufo-fuscous ; at the mid- 

 dle of the base is a short longitudinal line formed of adpressed 

 whitish hairs. Scutellum broadly truncate, clothed with coarse 

 adpressed whitish pubescence. Elytra as broad at the base as 

 the thorax, thence quickly narrowed towards the apex, the latter 

 dehiscent; above coarsely ])unctured, humeral callus prominent; 

 surface longitudinally excavated along the suture, the excavated 

 portion commencing immediately below the basilar space; the 

 latter plane, not perceptibly raised above the surface of the ely- 

 tron ; the yellow colour on the basal half of the surface soon 

 becomes obscured, and imperceptibly loses itself in the general 

 fuscous colour of the sides and hinder disk. Body beneath 

 clothed with coarse, adpressed, dirty white hairs; sides of the 

 metasternum nearly glabrous, sparingly covered with very fine, 

 adpressed, fulvous hairs; apical border of metasternum, together 

 with the mesosternum, each clothed with a transverse band of 

 coarse yellowish pubescence. Hinder thighs moderately thick- 

 ened. Apical segmentof the abdomen impressed with adeep fovea. 

 Very close, both in form and colour, to P. tomentosa; the two 

 species, however, present distinct points of difference. P. Tlt.o- 

 reyi is larger, its head broader, the eyes larger and more promi- 

 nent ; the thorax is more constricted behind, and the scutellum 

 broadly truncate at the apex ; the elytra are broader at the base, 



