548 Mr. Francis P. Pascoe's Notes on 



punctured, partly in rows having unequal spaces between them, 

 but at the base more irregularly, round the scutellura and various 

 patches along the sides dark brown, the sutural region and two 

 very distinct longitudinal spots behind the middle of each elytron 

 white ; body beneath and legs luteous, with a fine greyish pubes- 

 cence. 



Length 3 lines. 



This comes very near a species from Aru (Ropica stigmatica, 

 Pasc), but is more elongate, the elytra terminating in a more 

 acute angle and without the white sutural patch. 



Genus Atimura. 

 Caput prothoracis latitudinis, inter oculos quadratum. Ocidi 

 prominuli, reniformes. Antenncs distantes, setacese, articulo 

 basali brevi, turgido, tertio quarto longiori, caeteris gradatim 

 decrescentibus. Prothorax breviter sub-cylindricus. Elytra 

 parallela. Pedes breves, protibiis curvatis. Ungues simplices. 

 Coxce anticae spinosae. Corpus subangustatum. 

 This is essentially a Saperdoid form, probably not far removed 

 from such genera as Jgennopsis and Estola. I have noticed a 

 species very like the one here described in Mr. Wallace's collections 

 from the Indian Isles. 



1. Atimura terminata. (PI. XXIII. fig. 6.) 

 A. fusca ; elytris interrupte quadricostatis, apice fulvo-pubes- 



cente. 

 Port Denison. 



Brown, inclining to pitchy ; head as broad as the prothorax, 

 quadrate between the eyes, an impressed line on the vertex, with 

 two or three bands of fulvous hairs ; antennae shorter than the 

 body, slightly ciliated beneath, the third and fourth joints curved, 

 the former twice as long as the basal joint ; eyes prominent, uni- 

 form, the upper part narrow, and not approximate ; prothorax 

 rather longer than broad, subcylindrical, the sides very slightly 

 rounded, the disc closely punctured, with short scattered hairs, 

 which become more condensed anteriorly, forming a fulvous border 

 to the prothorax; scutellum rounded behind ; elytra broader than 

 the prothorax, nearly cylindrical, very coarsely punctured, and 

 rather suddenly rounded at the apex, where alone it is covered 

 with a dense fulvous pile, with four interrupted raised lines or 

 costae on each, the three inner costae ending abruptly, but previously 

 becoming more elevated, the middle one of the three approaching 



