130 Mr. F. P. Paseoe on some new or little-known 



the third longest, slightly curved, the rest subequal. Eyes small, deeply 

 divided. Epistome and labrum large and transverse, the latter broadly 

 i marginate. Palpi long, acuminated. Prothorax elongate-ovate, 

 broader than the head, very irregular, tooth d at the sides. Elytra 

 narrow, convex, tapering posteriorly. Winged. Legs stout : femora 

 clavate ; tarsi short. Prosternum dilated posteriorly; mesosternum 

 slightly bilobed. 



The unusually large prothorax of this insect and its narrow, 

 tapering elytra at once suggest some Dorcadion form, but its real 

 position appears to be with Pogonocluevus and its allies. The 

 specimen from which the description has been drawn up is in the 

 Eopean collection at Oxford. 



Auxa ampUcolUs. (PL VI. fig. 2.) 

 A. fuseata, subtilissime pubescens ; elytris pallidioribus, plagis magnis 



duabus, una basali, alteraque apicali, albescentibus. 

 Hah. Madagascar. 



Dull brown, finely pubescent ; prothorax very irregular, transversely 

 corrugated, the centre armed with two strong recurved teeth and a 

 shorter tooth at the side ; scutellum very transverse, whitish ; elytra 

 narrow, apiculate, spined at the shoulder, pale brown, a large whitish 

 irregular patch at the base and another at the apex ; antenna? rather 

 longer than the body, ferruginous-brown, slightly ciliated beneath : 

 palpi testaceous ; legs dark brown, rather glossy, the base of the femora 

 paler, a whitish patch on the posterior; body beneath with a greyish - 

 white pubescence. Length 3i lines. 



Cacia [Lamiidae]. 

 Newman, The Entom. p. 290. 



Cacia anthriboides. (PI. V. fig. 5.) 

 C. atra, pubescens; capite prothoraceque strigis, elytrisque (parte antiea l 



albo-cinereis ; antennis tarsisque albo-annulatis. 

 Hab. Amboyna. 



Deep black, covered with a very short dense pubescence ; head 

 below the eyes, and two nearly confluent stripes between them, ashy- 

 white, lip margined with white ; prothorax longer than wide, subcy- 

 lindrical, a little bulging at the sides, with a broad central stripe and 

 the sides ashy-white; scutellum subquadrate, the apex white; elytra 

 much wider than the thorax at the base, rather short, very slightly 

 receding towards the apex, which is rounded, with considerably more 

 than its basal half white, except at the shoulders and around the scu- 

 tellum ashy- white, a few white spots also at the apex; legs rather short 

 and robust, slightly tinged with ashy, the two basal joints of all the tarsi 

 white ; antennas nearly twice as long as the body, the base of the third, 

 fourth and fifth joints white, the fourth with a slight tuft of hairs at 

 its apex ; body beneath ashy. Length 8 lines. 



