from India and Ceylon. 55 



and posterior femora somewhat iufuscate at the middle ■ with 

 the first joint of the posterior tarsus not quite twice as lono- 

 as the two succeeding joints combined. Antennae with the 

 first five joints reddish, the remaining' joints brownish black. 

 I have named this pretty insect after Mr. Hampson, to 

 whose liberality the British Museum is indebted for it. 



Lamiidse. 



Pharsalia proxima, n. sp. 



Griseo-fulvo et fusco varia ; prothorace supra levifccr inasquali nee 

 tuberculato, fulvo-griseo cum maculis duabus nigris ; elytris prope 

 basin valde tuberculatis, singulis lateraliter cum plaga obliqua 

 alba. 



Long. 21, lat. 7| mm. 



Hub. Ceylon. 



With a somewhat mixed pubescence of tawny grey and 

 dark brown, with the former predominating on the upperside 

 of the head and prothorax, with two velvety black spots on 

 the middleof the disk of the prothorax. Elytra with an oblique 

 white patch near the middle of each side, and each, at a short 

 distance from the base, with a large obtuse tubercle which 

 passes behind into a feebly raised line extending to near the 

 apex. On the basal part the elytra are granulose and strongly 

 punctured, the punctures posteriorly becoming much smaller. 

 Prosternal process laterally and rather strongly dilated near 

 the middle of its length. Mesosternal process produced in 

 front into an acute conical tubercle. 



This species rather closely resembles P. gibbifera, Guer., 

 and in structural characters is more nearly allied to it than is 

 any other described species of the genus. It is at once dis- 

 tinguished from it, however, by the absence of tubercles 

 from the disk of the prothorax and by the much more acute 

 tuberculation of the mesosternal process. 



Batocera Polli, n. sp. (PL VII. fig. 2.) 



§ . Nigra ; cinereo-griseo-pubescens ; prothorace antice et postice 

 distiucte bisulcato, supra tri tuberculato, disco maculis duabus 

 luteis ornato ; elytris basi dense et valde granulatis, deiude 

 sparsim puuetatis, maculis duodecim majoribus et tribus vel 

 quatuor minoribus albo-tomentosis ornatis, apice sinuato-truncatis, 

 angulis suturalibus dentatis ; autenuis fere muticis. 

 Long. 45, lat. 16 mm. 



Hub. Ceylon. 



