from the Eastern Archijpelago. 265 



white scales collected together principally on the elytra, and 

 resembles a small Monomma or, still nearer perhaps, a Chelo- 

 narium. 



Nyphceha riionommoides. PI. XVI. fig. 7. 



N. ovalis, nitida, nigro-picea, elytris rufo-piceis ; capite fronte opaco, 

 impvinctato, inter oculos foveato ; rostro basi rugoso-punctato ; 

 antennis testaceo-piceis ; prothorace basi fere duplo latiore quam 

 longiore, antice tabulate, utrinque valde rotundato, sat fortiter 

 subvage punctato, basi maculis duabis albis notato ; elytris duplo 

 longioribus quam latioribus, utrinque modice rotundatis, fortiter 

 snlcato-punctatis, punctis magnis subquadratis, interstitiis sub 

 carta luce planatis et, basin versus, corrugatis, maculis albis 

 irroratis e squamis albis formatis ; corpore infra pedibusque pi- 

 ceis. Long. 2| lin. 



Hah. Ceram. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 

 Plate XV. 



Fig. 1. Dcedania mesoleuca : a, bead and part of the prothorax ; 6, antenna; 

 c, fore tarsus. 



Fig. 2. Pempheres trilineaia (the fore tibiae are not sufficiently curved) : 

 a, head. 



F^g. 3. Mecopus ptdvereus. 



Fig. 4. Talantkia ijhalangium : a, head. 



Fig. 5. Heurippa amoena (the body is much too broad) : n, head ; b, an- 

 tenna. 



Fig. 6. Phylaitis Y-alha : a, head ; b, antenna. 



Fig. 7. Ganyopis leucura : a, head. 



Fig. 8. Mecopiis spinicoUis. 



Fig. 9, Chirozetes nervosus : a, front view of the head. 



Fig. 10. Antenna of Agametis /estiva. 



Fig. 11. Head and part of the prothorax of Mecopus bispinosus, Web. 



Fig. 12. Head and part of the prothorax of Mecopus serrirostris. 



Fig. 13 a, antenna ; b, head, of Brimoda pagana. 



Fig. 14. Front view of the head of Phylaitis cyclops. 



Plate XVI. 



Fig. 1. Emexaure gallinula (the penultimate tarsal joints are much too 



broad) : a, head ; 6, fore leg. 

 Fig. 2. Idotasia nasuta : a, head. 

 Fig. 3. Nau)7h(Piis viiliaris : a, head. 

 Fig. 4. Metialma nfsvia : a, head ; b, fore leg. 

 Fig. 5. Odoacis grallarius : a, head. 

 Fig. 6. Osphilia iimlata. 

 Fig. 7. Nyphceba monommoides. 



Fig. 8. Thyestetha nitida : a, head and part of the prothorax. 

 Fig. 9. Arachnopus phaleratus. 

 Fig. 10. Head of Idotasia ehriosa. 

 Fig. 11. He&d o{ Idotasia scaphioides. 



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