580 EEv. n. s. GORnAM OS [June 20, 



PeLOXIUM (?) NIGaO-.ENBUil, n. sp. 



Nir/riim, superne reneo-nitens ; capite proiJioraceque crehre s^ihtiliter 

 punctata, nitidis ; eli/tris quam prothorax duplo latiorUms 

 creherrime incejualiter punctatis, puiiMs uhique confine ntibus, 

 puhe grisea tenui dense vestitis ; abdominis apice pallescente, 

 antennaritm articulo primo subtits testaceo. Loncf. 7— ]2 millim. 

 Hah. Assam, Pafckai MoLUifcains (Dohert)/). 



Aiiteiinae with the basal joint stout, slightly curved ; secoad joint 

 short, bead-shaped ; third elongate, compressed ; fourth to eighth 

 gradually shorter, the seventh and eighth being transverse, the 

 latter especially being very short and smaller than the seventh ; 

 the ninth and tenth joints large, triangular, subequal, the apical 

 one more oval ; the palpi have their apical joints oblong and 

 truncate, wider than the preceding joints, in both pairs. The 

 eyes are renit'orm, moderately strongly faceted, deeply excised, 

 with a short ridge, beneath which the antenuiB take their origin. 

 The thorax has the sides evenly rounded ; it is a little more 

 narrowed in front than behind, the constrictions are obsolete ; it, 

 as well as the head, legs, and sides of the elytra, has a rather long 

 but fine grey pubescence. The punctuation of the elytra is thick 

 and irregular ; the punctures are broken, i. e. the larger ones seem 

 formed of groups of confluent smaller ones ; towards the apex the 

 larger pits gradually disappear. The legs are black, but not deeply 

 so, the body beneath and the trochanters tending to be pitchy. 



Three specimens were obtained by Doherty, one much smaller 

 than the other two, and having the last three joints of the 

 antennae much longer and thinner than in those examples. 



SlSTB,SOPHOE.IJS. 



Sisiirnopliorus, C. Waterhouse, Ent. Mo. Mag. xiii. (1876) 

 p. 125. 



This singular genus was detected by myself among the Cocci- 

 nellidae at the British Museum — the typical species, S. maculatus, 

 at first sight roughly resembling some species of that family. Two 

 species were characterized by the author — S. maculatus from the 

 Philippine Islands and S. bowringii from Penang. I do not at 

 present see that there was sufficient ground for separating it 

 from Allochotes, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 241. But 

 anyhow that name appears too close to AUocotus (Fieber), Puton 

 (Hemiptera), Ent. Mo. Mag. xi. p. 146 (1874). 



Westwood describes (lac. cit.) seven species. 



Choresine, Pascoe, to which he compares the genus, belongs to the 

 Melyridae. 



SiSYENOPHOEUS BIEMANICUS, n. Sp. 



Lcete ferrugineus ; eh/tris metalUco-viridibus, iiitidis, crebre sub- 



tiliter punctatis. Long. 8 millim. 

 Hob. Burmah, Buby Mines {Bohirtg). 

 Head and thorax rich rusty — almost blood — red. very finely, 



