346 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on neio Genera 



versis, clavam perfoliatam formantibus. ProtJwrax transversus, 

 apice fortiter emarginatus, lateribus antice rotundatus, postice 

 constrictus, basi leviter rotundatus. Elytra ovata, supra depressa. 

 Pedes sequales ; tibice anticse subdentatse, apice calcaratse. Pro- 

 sternum latum, postice truncatum. Metasternum apice productum, 

 in medio canaliculatum. Mesosternum triangulare. 



M. Lacordaire's " tribu iii. Gymnochilides " of the Trogo- 

 sitidse is distinguished by the " essential character " of the 

 divided eyes, either common, apparently, to both sexes, or pe- 

 culiar to the male. In GymnocMla, Acrops {Anacypta)^ and 

 Narcisa I have always found them divided, in reality fom* 

 eyes ; in Leperina *, including eight species, never. Lacor- 

 daire also finds them simple in that genus. Mannerheim, 

 however, out of a hundred individuals of the Siberian species 

 of Gymnochilaj only obtained a single male ; and in this the 

 eyes were completely divided. It would therefore seem to be 

 questionable whether the Australian Leperince are rightly in- 

 cluded in it. So far as the genus before us is concerned, 

 having only one specimen, I am unable to say if the undivided 

 eyes are persistent in both sexes. The genus is perhaps most 

 nearly allied to Leperina ; but its habit, colour, and clothing 

 are altogetlier peculiar : the latter is neither scales nor hairs, 

 but appears, particularly on the elytra, to be a densely matted 

 material, like the finest velvet ; the scutellum alone is covered 

 with long, closely set, silky hairs. A short diagnosis of this 

 species was given in the ' Proceedings of the Entomological 

 Society,' 1868, p. xi. 



Elestora fidgurata. PI. XIV. fig. 1. 



E. aterrima, maculis aurantiacis ornata ; capite sat remote punctate ; 

 antennis glabris, nitidis; prothorace in medio paulo excavato, 

 lateribus tenuiter sulcato-margiuato ; scutello pilis lougiusculis 

 aurantiacis dense tecto ; elytris postice paulo latioribus, dorso 

 planatis, lineis longitudinalibus subtiliter elevatis, maculis mag- 

 nis quatuor decoratis, singulis una exteriore ante medium, una 

 postice ad suturam fere connexa ; corpore infra pedibusqiie nigris, 

 opacis. Long. 6| lin. 



Hah. Penang. 



Elacatis lyncea. 



E. pallide testacea, supra pilosula, elytris nigro fasciatis at macu- 

 latis ; capite prothoraceque fuscescentibus, hoc capite manifesto 

 angustiore, lateribus baud denticulate, angulis posticis rotundatis; 

 elytris prothorace latioribus, sat breviuscuhs, postice gradatira 



* Leperina faseicnlata, Redt. (Novar. Raise, Col. p. 37, pi. 2. fig, 3), is 

 evidently L. turbata, Pasc. Journ. of Entom. ii. p. 29. 



