440 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera 



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and from which it is otherwise differentiated by its emarginate 

 clypeos, fiattish prothorax, and very convex, or even gibbous, 

 elytra with distinct epipleura. 



Phi/mcEiis pustidosas. 



P. niger, opacus ; prothorace marginibus crenatis ; elytris sat vage 

 rufo-tuberculatis, tuberciilis pedibusque nitidis. Long. 7 lin. 



Ifab. Ceylon. 



Black, opaque, the labium, tubercles, and legs glossy ; head 

 and prothorax minutely punctate, the latter somewhat ex- 

 panded and crenate at the sides, the base with a linear elevated 

 border ; scutellum transversely triangular ; elytra gradually 

 rising from the base to the middle, and falling towards the 

 apex, seriate-punctate, punctures very small and mixed with 

 glossy reddish tubercles (about nine larger and three or four 

 smaller on each elytron), the interstices towards the scutellum 

 with a few minute black granules ; femora and tibire glossy 

 brownish black, the lower third of the latter and tarsi beneath 

 thickly covered with light golden-brown hairs ; body beneath 

 shining black; the abdomen, except the last segment, closely 

 punctured. 



Tliecacerus sycophanta. 



T. ovalis, aureo-cupreus. scutello scutiformi ; elytris minus pun- 

 ctata, paulo ante medium tuberculis duobus elevatis instructis. 

 Long. 7 lin. 



Hob. Brazil (Minas Geraes). 



Oval, coppery with a strong tinge of golden yellow j head 

 finely but distinctly punctate ; antennae with the four penulti- 

 mate joints about equal in length and breadth ; prothorax very 

 transverse, glabrous, a few minute scattered punctures and a 

 shallow fovea on each side ; scutellum scutiform ; elytra irre- 

 gularly punctate, the punctures varying in size, the shoulders 

 conically produced, and each elytron having a large conical 

 diverging tubercle, \v ith the greater part of its base rather before 

 the middle ; beneath and legs very smooth and glossy. 



A much narrower form than 1\ nodosus ; in that species the 

 four penultimate joints of the antennas are transverse, the pro- 

 thorax is not so short, the scutellum somewhat transverse and 

 rounded behind, the elytra more coarsely punctate, and the 

 two dorsal tubercles smaller and more remote from the base, 

 and the colour is darker without any golden tint. The figure 

 in Griffith's l Animal Kingdom ' represents this species better 

 than T. nodosus j the type of which is in the British Museum. 



