360 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Coleoptera. 



: segmento ultimo abdominis excepto nude ; pedibus fusco alboque 

 variis ; tarsis nigris, anticis articulo primo in medio albo, quatuor 

 posticis articulis primo basi et secundo toto, apice excepto, albis. 

 Long. 11 lin. 



Hob. Labuan. 



A fine species, differing from H. 'pilicornis in its size, ros- 

 trum, eyes, antennse, and coloration, especially of the tarsi, 



Phides. 



(Anthribidse.) 



A Plintheria differt rostro in medio carinato, clava laxe articulata ; 

 oculis oblongis ; prothorace utrinque ampliato-producto. carina 

 anteriore a basi remota; coxis anticis sejunctis.. et tarsis brevi- 

 oribus, dUatatis. 



One of my two examples of this genus has the rostrum 

 decidedly longer than the other ; if this be the male, then there 

 will be very little difference between the sexes ; in Plintheria 

 the antennse in the male are nearly three times as long as in 

 the female*. 



Phides xanthodactylus. PI. XIV. fig. 4. 



P. oblongus, niger, saturate cervino-pubescens ; rostro capite duplo 

 longiore, versus apicem sensim latiore ; antennis capite cum rostro 

 baud longioribus, ferrugineis, art. 3-8. gradatim brevioribus, clava 

 extrorsum fulvicante ; prothorace supra insequali, carina medio 

 instructo, nigro-strigoso, basi ante scutellum macula ochracea 

 omato ; scutello quadrate, ochraceo ; elytris prothoracis medio vix 

 latioribus, striato-punctatis, singulis tuberculis circa decem notatis; 

 metasterno, abdomine femoribusque dense silaceo-squamosis ; tar- 

 sis articulis duobus ultimis flavis. Long. 4| lin. 



Hah, Fiji. 



Phaulimia Schaumii. 



P. fusco- castanea, pube subtili subgrisea Lnduta, elytris maculis 

 duabus majusculis communibus nigris ornatis, una basali subob- 

 longa, pallide margiuata, altera apicali transversa minore : anten- 

 nis fuscis, clava nigra, art. duobus ultimis funiculi testaceis ; pro- 



* The sexual distinctions of Cedus, a genus of this family, were unknown 

 when I proposed it ; nor were they known to Lacordaire. I may there- 

 fore say that my specimens at that time were males (they were after- 

 wards sent by me to Lacordaire). In C. guttatus the female has antennae 

 as long as the body, with a slender elongate club ; the female of C. tuher- 

 culatus has much shorter antennae, with a stout compact club, while some 

 of the males of this species have antennae four times as long as the body. 

 Lacordaire is probably right in considering Byastus cephalotes, Pasc, to 

 be the female of another species of Cedus. There is a fourth in the col- 

 lection of Mr. Lamb, from Pulo Penang. 



