new genera and species of CryytoceflialidcE. 217 



medial lobe produced, broadly emarginatc ; above convex, 

 remotely and very finely punctured ; basal border narrowly 

 edged with black. Scutellum subcordate, its apex acute, 

 its basal margin deeply bilobate, narrowly edged Avith 

 black. Elytra not broader than the thorax, convex, 

 regularly punctate-striate ; interspaces plane, finely but 

 distinctly punctured, faintly rugulose-strigose over the 

 whole surface ; each elytron with a large ill-defined pale 

 piceous patch placed on the outer disk, extending from 

 just beloAv the basal margin to beyond the middle; extreme 

 basal margin black. Prosternum nearly twice as long as 

 broad, its anterior margin produced, obliquely deflexed, 

 sides sinuate between the coxfE, parallel towards the 

 hinder apex, the latter distinctly concave, its lateral 

 angles acute. Unguiculi piceous. 



Melixantlius phicidus. 



Late quadrato-ovatus, postice vix attenuatus, valde con- 

 vexus, fulvus, nitidus, antennis extrorsum nigris; thorace 

 tenuiter, subremote punctate, basi anguste nigro mar- 

 ginato; elytris basi nigro marginatis, regulariter punctato- 

 striatis, interspatiis planis, tenuissime, sat remote punc- 

 tatis, irregulariter impresso-strigosis. 



Long. 2 lin. 



Hah. — China; collected by Mr. Lewis. 



Head short, rotundate, finely punctured ; eyes remote, 

 elongate, broadly but not deeply notched; antennre shorter 

 than the head and thorax; the basal joint elongate, 

 curved, the second and following three short, nearly equal 

 in length, the second slightly thickened, the third and 

 fourth cylindrical, the fifth compressed, slightly dilated, 

 trigonate; the sixth to the tenth compressed, distinctly 

 dilated, trigonate and forming with the ovate eleventh 

 joint an ill-defined, elongate club; five lower joints ful- 

 vous, the six oiiter ones black. Thorax more than twice 

 as broad as long at the base; sides rounded and con- 

 verging from base to apex, hinder angles posteriorly \)Y0- 

 dnced, subacute; basal mai-gin slightly bisinuate on cither 

 side, medial lobe slightly produced, broadly emarginate;* 

 above convex, cylindrical at the apex, faintly excavated 

 at the base on either side the medial lobe, very finely 



* Owing to the bilobate base of the scntcUum overlapjiinp: the margin of 

 the thorax, it is impossible in the pvcsoTit. as in many other instances, to 

 dctci'minc the exact shiiiKJ of the eniargination itself. 



TRAN3. ENT. SOC. 1877. — PAUT III. (OCT.) Q 



