62 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or little-known 



ance of the geniculation of the antennas is now only recognized as a 

 secondary character, I think M. Jekel* has done good service in 

 referring all the groups of Schonherr's Orthocerati, after eliminating 

 those which evidently belonged to the true Curculionidae, to four 

 families. Taehygonus is one of the genera so removed, and this 

 M. Jekel seems inclined to place near Ceutorhynchus. 



Dinorhopala spinosa. (PI. III. fig. 2.) 

 D. atra, subnitida ; rostro, antennis, pedibusque (clava tibiisque posticis 



exceptis) fulvescentibus. 

 Hab. Burmah (Rangoon). 



Glossy black ; rostrum, throat, antenna?, the four anterior legs, bases 



of the posterior femora and tarsi brownish-yellow. Length 2^ lines. 



The figure, which is in no degree exaggerated, will give a better 

 idea of this singular little insect than the most lengthened descrip- 

 tion. It was taken, with other very interesting species, by an 

 English officer at the time of our recent occupation of Rangoon. 



Oiithostoma [Ceranibycidae], 

 Serville, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, t. iii. p. 61. 



Orthostoma cyanea. 

 O. laete-caerulea ; thorace luteo ; antennarum articidis tribus ultimis albis. 

 Hab. Brazil (Para). 



Bright cobalt blue ; head thickly punctured ; eyes dark brown ; pro- 

 thorax reddish-yellow, finely punctured ; scutellum subquadrate ; elytra 

 minutely granulated, sparingly clothed with short stiff black hairs ; a 

 few scattered hairs on the legs and antennae j antennae somewhat longer 

 than the body, the last three joints white ; jugulum, presternum, and 

 anterior coxae yellow ; abdomen glossy greenish-blue. Length 8 lines. 



Ostedes [Lamiidae]. 

 Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. n. s. vol. v. p. 43. 



Ostedes spinosula. 

 O. grisescens, fusco-variegata ; prothorace trituberculato, lateribus mu- 



ticis ; elytris basin versus spinosis, spina incurva. 

 Hub. New Guinea (Dorey) ; Moluccas (Batchian). 



Finely pubescent, greyish varied with brown; head small, deeply 

 sulcated in front ; prothorax a little longer than wide, the sides un- 

 armed, the disc with two broadly depressed tubercles towards the an- 

 terior margin ; scutellum scarcely transverse, rounded behind ; elytra 

 rather narrow, the basal half sparingly punctured, a prominent, strongly 



* Insects Saundersiana, pt. ii. pp. 166, lf>7. 



