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Phrygena ephippiata. 



P. breviter ovata, albo-squamosa ; elytris, tertia apical i except a, 

 - fuscis ; prothorace apicem versus paulo excavato ; pedibus annu- 

 latis. Long. 2 lin. 



Hob. Dikoya. 



Shortly ovate, closely covered with white scales, the elytra 

 brown, except the apical third ; rostrum as long as the pro- 

 thorax, scaly throughout, brown in the middle ; antennae tes- 

 taceous ; prothorax broadly ridged in the middle, and slightly 

 excavated behind the projecting apex, edges of the ridge 

 bounded by a fascicle of erect white scales anteriorly and 

 behind by a few black ones, sides external to the ridge con- 

 cave throughout; elytra broadest at the base, gradually 

 rounded to the apex, the shoulders extending beyond the 

 prothorax, striate-punctate, the punctures linear, third, fifth, 

 and seventh interstices fasciculate towards the base, a second 

 series of fewer scales on the middle, and a still lessening series 

 on the apical third ; body beneath with small whitish scales ; 

 legs closely covered with white scales alternating with rings 

 of brown. 



Strattis. 



Femora infra canaliculata et scutellum distinctum ab Acalle dis- 

 tinguunt. 



Acalles is one of those genera which do not appear to be 

 very easy of definition ; Lacordaire hesitated to consider it 

 distinct from Tylodes, with which it was originally placed by 

 Schonherr as a subgenus, with A. carnehtsas the type. Later 

 on, in his ' Genera et Species,' he gave as the type an obscure 

 Cuban species, A. aptcalis. At any rate the characters here 

 given cut off the two species described below from Acalles. 



Strattis biguttatus. 



gul 



dide alba notatis ; rostro extrorsum ferrugineo ; antennis testaceis 



Long. 1^ lin. 



tion at the apex, and is without the black scales at the side ; the elytra at 

 the apex are abruptly declivous ; and the legs are not ringed. 



Phrygena affinis. 



P. breviter ovata, albo- squamosa; elytris, tertia apicali excepta, fuscis, 

 apice subito declivibus ; prothorace apicem versus paulo convexo, late- 

 ribus minus exearatis. Long. 2 lin. 



Hab. Singapore. 



