Descriptions of Malacodermata m the Civic Miiseuin of Natural History at Genoa. 

 By tlie Rev. H. S. 



Family LYGIDAE. 



Subfam. Lycides. 



Genus novum I*laiieteros. 



Antennae suhfiliformes; articulo secundo hrevi, tertio quam quar- 

 tum sesquihreviori , sequentibus subaequalibus. Prothorax disco 

 sublaevi, in medio antice carinatum postice fossulalum; scutellum 

 subquadratum, canaliculatum ^ apice haud profunde, vix fisso. 

 Elytra decemstriata^ pubescentia. 



I propose this genus for those species of Lycidae, which in- 

 habiting Africa and perhaps other regions of the globe further 

 East are very closely allied to the species of the New World 

 genus Plateros. I do not desire to do more than indicate the 

 genus here, because I have yet had very few specimens of 

 this type from Africa to examine, and there is only a single 

 specimen of the species here described in the collection. Hence 

 I have not been able yet to examine the sexual characters. I 

 suspect the key to the separation of these difficult genera of 

 small Lycidae will be found to lie in the proportion of an- 

 tennal joints. There will however be no difficulty in recognising 

 the species, as I know no other yet described at all like it 

 from the same region. 



1. Planeteros ochropterus, n. sp. 



Nigei\ subnitidus, elytris pallide ochraceis^ decemstriatis, striis 

 punctatis, punctis quadralis. 

 Long. 8 millim. 



