and Species of Coleoptera. 11 



refers it to the Drilinse*. It is a most remarkable form, 

 owing to its very large palpi, by which it is principally 

 differentiated from Selasta. Judging from Westwood's 

 figure, the eyes are close to the prothorax, in which respect it 

 differs widely from the above. 



Selasia pulchra. (PI. I. fig. 8.) 



S. breviuscula, modice convexa, fulva, pilis dispersis aureis vestita ; 



elytris in medio fusco-nebuloeis ; capita parvulo. Long. 3| lin. 



Hah. Delagoa Bay. 



Kather short and broad, the sides subparallel, fulvous, 

 somewhat glossy, the elytra with a tinge of brown, except at 

 the margins, and clothed with numerous (but not to the naked 

 eye) conspicuous golden hairs^ each arising from a minute 

 puncture ; head slightly exserted, much narrower than the 

 prothorax ; last joint of the maxillary palpi subsecuriform ; 

 eyes black ; antennse not extending to the base of the prothorax, 

 the latter transverse, the base slightly eraarginate in the 

 middle ; scutellum long, triangular 5 elytra substriate-punc- 

 tate ; body beneath and legs paler, hairy. 



Only the males of this genus are known, but it only con- 

 tained two West-African species, and one (doubtfully con- 

 generic) from India. They are all exceedingly scarce in 

 collections ; of one species only a single example is known ac- 

 cording to Lacordaire. 



Selasia laticeps. 

 S. latiuscula, paulo convexa, pilosa, testacea ; elytris pone basin 

 gradatim infuscatis ; capita prothoraca latitudine sequali. Long. 

 21 lin. 



Hah. Bombay. 



Moderately broad, slightly convex, clothed with long 

 slender hairs, generally testaceous, but gradually deepening 

 into brown behind the base of the elytra j head short, as broad 

 as the prothorax ; antennse extending to the elytra, brownish, 

 except the two basal joints, and furnished with stiff hairs j 

 eyes large and close to the prothorax, the latter transverse, 

 the base slightly rounded, the disk sparsely punctured ; scutel- 

 lum rather large, triangular ; elytra broader than the prothorax 

 at the base, the sides nearly parallel ; irregularly and minutely 

 punctured ; legs slender ; tarsi filiform. 



I, at first, thought this species was generically differentiated 

 from Selasia on account, inter alia^ of its broad head, deeply 

 immerse.d in the prothorax, and purposed calling it Blastesis ; 



* Prof. Westwood (Modern Class, of Insects) ranks them as families. 

 Telephoridse is now strictly equivalent to the older Malacodermata. 



