92 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



Genus CCCX. — Hypera, Germar. 



AntennoE geniculated, 12-jointecl, moderate, somewhat slender ; the scape clavate, 

 nearly reaching to the eyes ; funiculus 7-jointed, its basal joints incrassated 

 and elongated; second obconic, also slightly elongate; remainder short, no- 

 dose : club oblong, oval. Rostrum about as long again as the head, somewhat 

 incrassated, rounded, a Kttle curved : eyes lateral, placed obliquely, somewhat 

 depressed, and oblong : thorax generally with the sides rounded, the base 

 and apex subtruncate; rarely subcylindric: scvtellum minute, subtriangular : 

 elytra oblong or short ovate, densely squamous, with the shoulders obtusely 

 angulated or somewhat rounded : legs moderate ; femora elongate, unarmed ; 

 tibicB straight, truncate at the apex, unarmed. 



There is considerable diversity of appearance amongst the insects 

 at present associated in this genus, notwithstanding I have lopped 

 off the genus Procas, and have reverted to the succeeding genus 

 (EUescus) of Megerle; and with respect to some of the species 

 hereafter given as new I may be mistaken, for it is probable they 

 may be elsewhere described, it being obviously impossible, in a 

 general work, to collate every insect with the nicety of a mono- 

 graph. The larvse of this genus are found upon plants, and form 

 a beautiful reticulated cocoon about the size of a large pea, in which 

 they change to pupse. 



A. With the body short, ovate: the rostrum short and stout. 



Sp. 1. punctata. Niger obscurus, griseo-squamulosus, tJiorace cinereo-trilineato, 



elytris fasciculis nigris seriatis. (Long. corp. 4 — 5 lin.) 

 Cu. punctatus. Fabricius. — Hy. punctata. Steph. Catal. 167. No. 1707. 



Dull black, densely clothed with griseous scales : head rounded : eyes brown : 

 thorax a little widened in front, slightly convex, thickly punctulated, with 

 the under surface and sides clothed with cinereous and fuscous scales and 

 pubescence, the disc somewhat denuded, with a slender, more or less obsolete 

 dorsal hne of ashy scales: elytra ovate, deeply punctate-striate : the dorsal 

 striee disposed in pairs, the alternate ones being broadest and somewhat 

 elevated, densely squamous, with a row of dusky or black fascicles of scales ; 

 body beneath varied with ashy- white and fuscescent scales : legs dusky-black, 

 with ashy pubescence, the femora with a whitish ring at the tip ; rostrum 

 shorter than the thorax, stout, black : antennae piceous. 



The colour of the pubescence on the surface varies considerably. 



Not uncommon in hedges, &c. throughout the metropolitan district 



