60 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some neiv or little-known 



Misthosima [Anthribidae]. 

 Pascoe, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. iv. p. 434. 



Misthosima lata. 



M. late ovata, fusca griseo-varia ; pedibus brunneis, tibiis, apice, tarsisque 

 (basi excepta) nigris. 



Hob. Moluccas (Batcbian). 



Broadly ovate and very slightly depressed, pubescent, dark brown 

 varied with a few spots of grey, principally on the elytra, the striae have 

 also a line of grey hairs in each ; antennas about two-thirds the length 

 of the body, ferruginous, the club nearly black ; legs pale brown, the 

 tibiae, at the apex, and tarsi, except at the base of the first joint, black. 

 Length 2| lines. 



Nessiaka [Anthribidae]. 



Pascoe (Nessia), in Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. iv. 



p. 329 ; non Nessia, J. E. Gray. 



Nessiara planata. (PL II. fig. 1.) 

 iV. hirta, fusca, griseo-varia; elytris deplanatis, retusis, singulo postice 



bituberculatis. 

 Hab. Moluccas (Batcbian). 



Clothed with short appressed dark brown hairs varied with grey, 

 which are more or less ashy ; head entirely grey, the rostrum with 

 a central carina, and a shorter one on each side below the eye ; pro- 

 thorax with the sides dark brown spotted with grey, the disc with 

 a central subtriang-ular ashy spot which is abruptly narrowed behind ; 

 scutellum ashy ; elytra punctato-striate, rather broad, flatly depressed, 

 suddenly bent down near the apex, the outer posterior angle of each 

 bituberculate, the depressed portion dark ashy, the sides dark brown, 

 the alternate interstices with black and pale yellowish-grey spots ; 

 body beneath yellowish-brown ; legs annulated with dull brown and 

 pale grey ; eyes pale brown, somewhat lustrous. Length 5 lines. 



I have elsewhere mentioned my suspicions that this genus is syno- 

 nymous with Denclropemon, Schon., and M. Jekel is inclined to take 

 the same view of it ; as, however, the name was previously used by 

 Perty, or what will be considered to amount to the same thing — 

 for his orthography was Dendropcemon — another name must be 

 adopted, and Nessia having been applied to a group of Saurians, I 

 have thought a modification of it to Nessiara will be attended with 

 the least inconvenience. Stenocerus platipennis ! Montrou., is evi- 

 dently nearly allied to the species just described, and his three other 

 Stenoceri probably belong likewise to this genus. &. Gamotii, Guer., 

 and the insect figured in the ' Voyage de la Bonite,' Coleop. pi. ii. 



