1893.; 253 



latitudini cum oculis seque longum. Oculi parviili, breviusculi, ultra angulos antieos 

 prouoti prominenfces. Eostrum apicem mesostetliii attingens, articulo primo caput 

 superante, sed impressionem transversalem prostethii baud attingente, tertio secundo 

 distincte breviore et quarto fere eeque longo. Antennae longe infra apicem oculorum 

 insertse, ab oculis fere seque longe ac ab apice clypei remotse, articulo primo eodem 

 articulo rostri breviore, secundo latitudine capitis breviore, tertio secundo adhuc 

 breviore, quarto secundo longiore. Pronotum latitudini posticse seque longum, pone 

 medium disco fortiter transversim impressum ibique lateribus fortiter sinuatis, his 

 versus apicem parallelis, ante apicem fere subito valde rotundatis, angulis ipsis 

 anticis acutiusculis, deflexis, marginibus carinatis, lobo antico convexo postico multo 

 longiore, hoc discolore. Scutellum longius quam latius, commissura clavi saltern 

 quadruplo longius. Clavus triseriatim punctatus. Sutura ventralis tertia utrinque 

 distincte antrorsum curvata. Pedes breviusculi. Femora antica incrassata, inferne 

 versus apicem denticulis pluribus, ante quartam apicalem partem spina magna leviter 

 curvata armata. Tibise inferne spinulosse. Tarsi postici articulo primo duobus 

 reliquis eimul sumtis vix dimidio longiore. 



Allied to Uliyparochromits, Curt., but differing by the discolorous 



posterior lobe of the pronotum, the vertical head, and the structure 



of the rostrum, &c. In colour and markings this, the only known 



species, reminds one much of some species of the genus Prosfemma 



{Nahidce) . 



P. MIMICA, n. sp. 



Nigra, nitidula ; inferne cinereo-sericea, ventre nitido longe setoso ; superne 

 longe fusco-setosa ; pronoti lobo postico scutelloque rufo-ferrugineis, illo angulis 

 posticis infuscatis, hoc basi nigro ; hemielytris opacis, albido-testaceis, fusco-puncta- 

 tis, imo basi clavi, macula corii in tertia basali parte posita parteque ejus dimidio 

 apicali nigris, hac parte nigra dimidio antico opacissima, dimidio postico nitidissima, 

 punctata, breviter pilosula ; membrana opaca nigra, macula rotundata anguli basalis 

 aliaque transversal! apicem occupante niveis ; antennis, rostro pedibusque cum coxis 

 testaceis, pilosis, femoribus apice tibiisque anticis, apice excepto, infuscatis ; femoribus 

 anticis ante spinam denticulis quinqae armatis, intimo ante medium sito ; capita 

 dense subtilius punctulato ; pronoti lobo postico quam antico fortius punctato. 



Long., 9 ) 5 mm. 



Patria ; Bombay, India. Communicavit D. Dr. E. Bergroth. 



Helsingfors : September llth, 1893. 



ON TEACBYSCELIS, with DESCEIPTIONS op THEEE NEW SPECIES. 

 ET G. C. CHAMPION, T.Z.S. 



The genus Trachyscelis, the typical species of which is a well- 

 known South European insect, once reputed British, is very widely 

 distributed, but up to the present time four species only appear to 

 have been described :~T. apliodioides, Latr., from vSouth Europe ; T. 

 ■flavipes, Melsh., from North America ; T. anisotomoldes, Fairm , from 



