from the Eastern Archipelago. 215 



shorter funicle, and the rostrum is a little flattened at the sides 

 at the base. 



Phylaitis cyclops. 

 P. oblonga, fusco- vel testaceo-fusca, griseo-squamosa ; rostro testa- 

 ceo, prothorace manifeste longiore, fere «quilato, basi obsolete 

 lineato ; oculis peramplis, toto contiguis ; antennis testaceis, scapo 

 rostri basin fere attingente ; prothorace vakle transverse, ampliato, 

 basi vix bisinuato, dorso sat dense griseo-squamoso, maculis qua- 

 tuor brunneis transversim locatis ; scutello orbicidari ; elytris 

 striato-punctatis, griseo-squamosis, singulatim maculis 3 v, 4 or- 

 natis, 2 V. 3 autice ad latera, una pone medio sitis ; corpore infra 

 sat dense albido-squamoso ; pedibus testaceis, minus dense squa- 

 mosis; femoribus posticis valdo ampliatis, infra deute magno 

 instructis. Long. 1|-1| lin. 



Hah. Sarawak. 



A slightly aberrant form, cwing to the greater length of its 

 scape. 



Pempheres. 



Charaeteres Phylaiti approximantes, sed scapo basin rostri fere attin- 

 gente ; articulo secundo funicnJl quam prime duplo longiore ; 

 cpeteris obconicis ; femoribus posticis corpus baud superantibus ; 

 tibiis anticis llexuosis. 



The relative length of the two basal joints of the funicle in 

 the species of this and the preceding genus seems, from its 

 persistence, to be a good primary character for both genera ; 

 the form of the anterior tibiaj, however, is decisive of their 

 generic difference. 



Pempheres trilineata. PI. XV. fig. 2. 

 P. anguste obovata, nigra, lineis albo-squamosis ornata ; rostro pro- 

 thoraci cum capite longitudine fequali, fcrrugineo, basi sat fortiter 

 crebre punctate, et medio subcarinulato, apicem versus punctis 

 evanescentibus ; antennis testaceo-piceis ; prothorace valde trans- 

 verso, ampHato, apice supra sulcato, leviter granidato-punctato, 

 vittis septem albis ornato, una mediana, tribus in utroque latere 

 sitis ; elytris striato-punctatis, interstitiis latis, vix convexis, vittis 

 tribus albis ornatis, una suturali communi, scutellum includente, 

 una dorsali utrinquo sitis ; corpore infra dense sordide albido- 

 squamoso ; pedibus squamis filiformibus albidis vestitis. Long. 

 3| lin. 



Hah. Batchian, Morty, Amboyna. 



Pempheres hahena. 

 P. anguste obovata, nigra, lineis abbreviatis laetc ochraceo-squamosis 



