400 Mr. C. J. Galian on neio Coleoptera. 



bifid process. The scutellum is ochraceously pubescent ; a 

 similar short, somewhat scaly pubescence appears in places 

 on the elytra. (The specimens are more or less rubbed.) 

 The latter are sparsely and irregularly punctured on their 

 anterior half, and each at its base projects forwards in the 

 middle, so as to form a hump on each side of the scutellum. 

 The apex rounded. 



Two female specimens, one ticketed N. India, the other 

 Penang. 



Synonymical and other Notes. 



Archidice quadrtnofata, Thorns., is synonymous with the 

 previously described Monohammus officinatoVj White. The 

 species is not strictly referable to either genus. Its short 

 metasternum brings it into relation with the "true Lamiidge." 

 It belongs nevertheless to the Monohammus-gvoViT^j and may 

 be placed in the genus Lamiomimus, Kolbe, from which it 

 structurally differs only in the more prominent antennal 

 tubercles and in the feebly tubercled mesosternum. 



Psacothea {Monohammus) hilarisj Pasc. (Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 London, ser. 2, vol. iv. p. 103), is synonymous with P. [Dio- 

 chares) flavoguttata, Fairm. (Ann. Soc. Ent. de Belgique, 

 1887, p. 133). 



The genus Psacothea, though never characterized, seems to 

 be good. Its name, first, I believe, used in manuscript by 

 Pascoe, was subsequently employed by Bates (Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xii. p. 311). In the Munich Catalogue 

 the genus is placed as a synonym of Monohammus. It is, 

 however, much more nearly related to Epepeotes, especially to 

 the North-Indian species of that genus. The following cha- 

 racters may serve to fix it : — Head narrowly and triangularly 

 concave between the antennal tubercles, the latter prominent, 

 divergent, approximated at their base ; lateral spines of 

 thorax short and feeble ; prosternal process dilated on each 

 side behind the middle ; anterior coxal cavities incompletely 

 closed in behind ; mesosternum tubercled ; anterior legs in 

 the male with the tibias unarmed, with the first joint of tarsus 

 simple, nearly as long as the two succeeding joints. 



Kyepeotes {Leproderd) spinosa^ Thoms., is synonymous 

 with the later described Epepeotes meridianus, Pasc. { = late- 

 ralis, Guer.). 



Pelargoderus rugosics, Waterh., appears to be synonymous 

 with Paraglioma acuminiinnnis , Blanchard. The type of 

 Waterhouse's species is a large male from Larat, in which 

 the apices of the elytra are obliquely truncate. In two speci- 



