230 MR. F. P. PASCOE ON THE COLEOPTERA OF PENANG. [May 8, 

 CUPHISIA CALLOSA. (PI. XXVI. fig. 1.) 



C. pallide fusca, sparse griseo pubeseens ; elytris fortiter jmnc- 

 tatis, basifulvis, macid is paucis fulvo pilosis ornatis. 



Pale brown, subnitid, with a sparse greyish pubescence ; head and 

 prothorax reddish brown, impunctate, the pubescence thicker, with 

 a yellowish tinge ; scutellum nearly triangular, pointed posteriorly ; 

 elytra coarsely substriate-punctate, the base fulvous, and having a 

 well-marked callus on each near the suture and a little behind the 

 scutellum, posteriorly four patcbes of fulvous hairs, one behind the 

 middle, equidistant from the suture and external margin, another 

 and the largest preapical, and two outer on the same lateral lines as 

 the preceding ; body beneath, legs, and antennae more or less ful- 

 vous brown, subnitid, and all, as well as the whole upper surface, 

 clothed with scattered erect setose hairs, principally white, but inter- 

 mixed with a few black. Length 2| lines. 



NlPHONlN.E. 



tElara. 

 jElara, J. Thomson, Syst. Ceramb. p. 55. 



jElara arrogans. 



Niphona arrogans, Pascoe, Journ. of Entom. i. p. 338. 



JElara arrogans, Pascoe, Long. Malay, p. 82, pi. 4. f. 5. 



M. Thomson has two other genera (Camptocnema and Ocheutes) 

 which I am unable to distinguish satisfactorily from this. The 

 comparative length of the antennae, upon which they appear to be 

 chiefly based, varies according to the species and to the sex : thus 

 the male of JElara arrogans, which is an Ocheutes, has the antennae 

 quite as long as JE. excisa, which I take to be congeneric with JE. 

 ferdinandi, the type of the genus. Neither of the three genera 

 would admit Niphona cylintlracea, White ; and one or two others 

 would be nearly as difficult to locate. At the same time they are 

 all tolerably homogeneous in appearance. The species under review 

 has been taken by Mr. Wallace in Sarawak, where it does not appear 

 to be uncommon. 



JElara concisa, Thomson. 



I have received a specimen from M. J. Thomson under this name 

 from Java. I am not aware if he has published it. I have seen it, 

 or a species very similar, from the Himalaya, in Mr. W. Wilson 

 Saunders's collection. 



Daxata. 



Daxata, Pascoe, Long. Malay, p. 88. 



Daxata ustulata. (PI. XXVII. fig. 4.) 



D. grisescens, maculis punctiformibus nigris ornata ; elytris sin- 

 gulis basi lineato-cristatis. 



