from the Eastern Archipelago. 215 



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

 at the base. 



Phylaitis cyclops. 



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

 cco, prothorace manifesto longiore, fere aequilato, basi obsolete 

 lineato ; oculis pcramplis, toto contiguis ; antennis testaceis, scape 

 rostri basin fere attingeute ; prothorace valde transverso, ampliato, 

 basi vix bisiiiuato, dorso sat dense griseo-squamoso, macuHs qua- 

 tuor brunneis transversim locatis ; ecutello orbiculari ; elytris 

 striato-punctatis, griseo-squamosis, singidatim 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, infi-a dento magno 

 instructis. Long. li-l| lin. 



Hah. Sarawak. 



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

 scape. 



Pempheres. 



Characteres Phylaiti approximantes, sed scapo basin rostri fere attin- 

 gente ; articulo secundo funiculi quam prime duple longiore ; 

 cajteris obconicis ; femoribus posticis corpus baud supcrantibus ; 

 tihiis anticis flexuosis. 



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 tibiae, 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 aequali, ferruginee, basi sat fortiter 

 crebre punctato, et medio subcarinulato, apicem versus punctis 

 evanescentibus ; antennis testaceo-piceis ; prothorace valde trans- 

 verse, ampliato, apice supra sulcato, Icviter granulate-punctate, 

 vittis scptem albis ornato, i;na mediana, tribus in iitroquo latere 

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

 tribus albis ornatis, una suturali communi, scutellura includente, 

 una dorsali utrinque sitis ; corpore infra dense sordido albido- 

 squamoso ; pedibus squamis filiformibua albidis vestitis. Long. 

 3| Hn. 



llab. Batchian, Morty, Amboyna. 



Pempheres hahena. 

 P. anguste obovata, nigra, lineis abbrcviatis laste ochracco-squamosis 



