218 Mr. F. P, Pascoe's Catalogue o/Zygopinse 



Metialma ncevia. PI. XYI. fig. 4. 



J/, nigra, squamis filiformibus albis variegata ; rostro fusco, nitido, 

 apicc luteo, basi crassiore, ( $ ?) supra quinquclineato parce squa- 

 moso ; antennis subtestaceis, funiculo articulis quiuque ultimis 

 transversis ; prothorace supra indistinctc albo varia, basi macula 

 majuscula alba, margiue nigra, quadrifida circumdata ; scutello 

 oblongo, distincto ; clytris striato-punctatis, interstitiis latis, ])la- 

 natis, basi, linca obliqua media maculisque incertis albo-squamosis, 

 notatis ; corporo infra dense albido-squamoso ; pedibus minus 

 squamosis ; femoribus anticis dento triangulari maximo infra 

 armatis, posticis extus in medio macula fusca signatis. Long. 

 21 Hn. 



Hab. Macassar, Gilolo, Tondano, Java. 



There are slight differences among my specimens, but no- 

 thing that can be regarded as specific ; that from Java has a 

 rostrum not thickened at the base, and, judging from Mecojms, 

 probably represents a male. 



Metialma novata. 



M. prfficedenti affinis, rostro magis attcnuato, basi in utroque latere 

 obsolete lineato ; funiculo articulis quinque ultiniis longioribus ; 

 prothorace antice minus angusto, medio nigro plagiato, basi ma- 

 cula albida literam T formante ; scutello orbiculari, distincto ; 

 elytris brevibus, lateiibus magis gradatim angustatis, supra albido- 



articulis duobus basalibus minus longiusculis ; clava magna, ovali ; 

 prothorace manifeste transverso, lobo medio triangulari, flavido squa- 

 moso, maculis fuscis sex, quatuor ante medium transversim sitis, 

 duabus basalibus, ornato ; elytris subcordatis, striato-punctatis, apice 

 late rotundatia et macula nivea notatis, squamis albidis flavidisque in- 

 temiixtis, maculis niirris concinne dispersis ; coi-])oro infra albido- 

 squamoso, segmentis tertio quartoque medio nigi-isj pedibus nigro 

 annu latis. Long. 3 lin. 

 Hab. Bombay, 



Metialma signifera, 



M. nigra, squamis filiformibus flavidis albisque interjectis subvariegata ; 

 rostro fusco, nitido, quinquelineato ; antennis subtestaceis, funiculo arti- 

 culis duobus basalibus longiusculis ; clava breviter ovata ; prothorace 

 modice transverse, basi lobo medio producto, hoc maculis duabus notato, 

 una postica alba, altera flavida, duabus conjunctis linea nigi-a fere cir- 

 cumdatis ; elytris breviter subcordatis, apice latis, leviter emarginatis, 

 striato-punctatis, flavido-squamosis, squamis albis parce intermixtis, 

 maculisque nigris vage dispositis, apice macula lajto ilavida oniatis ; 

 corpore infra all)ido-squamoso ; pedibus llavidis, fcmoribua apiccm 

 versus nigro aunulatis. Long. If lin. 



Ildb. I long Kong. 



