464 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new Coleoptera 
not spined nor angulated, the base dark brown, a pale-yellowish 
band in the middle, preceded by a narrow and followed by a very 
broad dark-brown band, beyond this to the apex bright fulvous 
yellow ; legs luteous, pubescent; body beneath dark shining 
brown, the propectus and margin of the abdominal segments 
hairy, fulvous. Length 12-13 lines. 
A very distinct and handsome species, approaching most 
nearly in its coloration to Tragocerus Spencei, Hope. 
Fam. Lamiide. 
Symphyletes vetustus. 
S. dense griseo pubescens, luteo alboque varius; prothorace tuber- 
culato; elytris basi granulatis, apice subtruncatis, externe emar- 
ginatis, plaga laterali fasciaque dentata pone medium albidis. 
Closely covered with a dark-greyish pile, varied with fulvous 
and white; head canaliculate m front ; antenne ciliated beneath ; 
prothorax transverse, irregularly tuberculate ; elytra much wider 
than the prothorax at the base, the shoulders produced, the 
sides gradually receding to the apex, which is nearly truncate, 
with the outer angle slightly emarginate, finely punctured, the 
base with a few black shining granules, a large patch at the side 
and an oblique irregular band behind the middle white, which 
also, like the rest of the elytra, are spotted with fulvous; legs 
brown, varied with fulvous; body beneath hairy, brownish grey. 
Length 12 lines. 
Differs from Symphyletes sodalis in its denser pubescence, the 
fascia on the elytra nearer the middle, the patch at the side 
more band-like, and the apex subtruncate and slightly emar- 
ginate externally. 
Niphona trata. 
N. hirsuta, pube grisea fusco varia; elytris parce fortiterque punc- 
tatis, fascia obliqua pone medium suturam non attingente dilutiore. 
Pitchy black, covered with a coarse greyish pile, beset with 
numerous short stiff pale hairs, and clouded with brown, the 
upper surface coarsely and remotely punctured ; head not canali- 
culate in front; antenne shorter than the body, all the joints, 
from the fifth inclusive, white at the base; prothorax nearly 
regular, with a short lateral tooth anteriorly ; elytra rather short, 
broadest at the base, gradually narrowing posteriorly, the apex 
rounded, behind the middle an oblique whitish band not reach- 
ing the suture; legs greyish, more or less ringed with brown ; 
body beneath dull grey, spotted with brown. Length 5 lines, 
Near N. insularis, but narrower, much more strongly punc- 
tured, with a thicker and coarser pile, and without the fulvous 
tint of that species. 
