Mr. J. S. Baly on the Phytopkaga. 279 



3 ti0 4 ,0 que brevibus, aequalibus, obconicis; tborace latitudine paullo 

 longiore, subcylindrico, lateribus medio valde constrictis, dorso ante 

 basin transversim sulcato, laavi, impunctato ; elytris basi vix elevatis, 

 infra basin vix transversim depressis, punctato-striatis, interspatiis 

 planis, ante apicem snbelevatis. — Long. 3£ lin. 

 Hob. Sierra Leone. Collected by tbe late Mr. Foxcroft. 



Face trigonate ; antenna? moderately robust, nearly filiform. Thorax 

 about one-fourth longer than broad, transverse groove at the base 

 lightly impressed. Elytra each with ten rows of punctures, their inter- 

 spaces impunctate ; middle portion covered by a broad transverse black 

 band, which terminates at the eighth stria from the suture. Hinder 

 thighs slightly incrassate, much shorter than the abdomen. 



Lema JeJcelii. 



L. elongata, convexa, nigra; antennis filiformibus, corporis longitudini 

 asqualibus, articulis l mo infra, 9° apice, 10 mo ll mo que totis flavo-albis ; 

 thorace vix pone medium valde strangvdato, constrictionis medio uni- 

 foveolato, flavo-albo, nitido, plaga magna trigona baseos nigra ; elytris 

 fortiter punctato-striatis, limbo laterali basi apiceque dilatato, nitido- 

 flavo-albo ; subtus nigra ; thorace plaga, metapleuris femoribusque 

 (horum quatuor anticis dorso, posticis apice, exceptis) nitido-flavo- 

 albis. — Long. 2 lin. 



Hub. Ega, Upper Amazons. 



Antenna? with the fourth joint slightly longer than the third, the 

 latter obconic. Thorax scarcely longer than broad, cylindrical, its sur- 

 face smooth, impunctate. Elytra each impressed with ten rows of 

 deep punctures, the ninth entire ; basilar space bounded by an obliquely 

 curved depression ; lateral edge of the elytra thickened ; interspaces 

 costate towards the apex. Hinder thighs thicker than the others, shorter 

 than the elytra ; abdomen covered with adpressed hairs. 



Genus Crioceris, Linn. 

 Grioceris Dromedarius. (Plate XIII. fig. 2.) 



C. breviter oblonga, parallels, pallide fulva, nitida ; femoribus incrassatis 

 (basi excepta), genibus abclominisque segmentorum singulorum maculis 

 tribus nitido-piceis ; antennis extrorsum fuscis, valde robustis, apicem 

 versus perparum incrassatis, paullo compressis ; thorace elongatulo, 

 subcylindrico, lateribus medio constrictis, apice paullo producto, disco 

 lpevi, serie duplici punctorum parvorum impresso ; elytris basi gibbosis, 

 profunde striato-foveolatis, striis hie illic interruptis, disco exteriore 

 piceo-maculatis, maculis impunctatis. — Long. 3| lin. 



Hah. Cambogia. Collected by M. Mouhot, 



Head stained with fuscous between the eyes ; lower portion of face 

 elongate ; antenna? about equal to half the length of the body, very 

 robust, second and third joints submoniliform, nearly equal, terminal 



