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of the body are punctulated with black ; the elytra are rounded at 

 the tip. 



Length 9^ to 11 lines. 



Hab. Port Natal. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



PTYCHODES HONDURAS. 



P. olivaceus, ore supra sulphur eo marginato, capite vittis tribus 

 pallide sulphureis, una verticali, una singulis lateribus ; thorace 

 vittis tribus pallide sulphureis, una dorsali, una lateribus sin- 

 gulis, dorso transversim. striatulo ; scutello pallide su/phureo ; 

 elytris apice acuminatis spinosis ; elytris vitta suturali com- 

 muni sulphureo ante apicem desinente ; elytris singulis vitta 

 laterali pallide sulphured, mesothorace macula laterali sul- 

 phurea; abdominis segmentis quatuor basalibus linea sulphured. 



Olive, punctured, face above the mouth margined with pale yellow ; 

 head with three pale yellow vittse, one on the crown and a wider 

 one on each cheek, a slight yellow mark at the bottom of the notch of 

 the eye ; antennae ferruginous brown, the three basal joints darker ; 

 thorax above slightly striated across with three pale yellow vittse, 

 one down the middle, and one rather wider on each side, in the same 

 line with those on cheek and side of elytra ; scutellum pale yellow, 

 elytra with a narrow yellow band on the suture, but not extending 

 to the tip : the inner margins of it are toothed ; the sides of the 

 elytra have a rather wide pale yellow band, the margins are some- 

 what toothed ; each side of the mesoihorax has a pale yellow spot ; 

 the first four segments of the abdomen have a pale yellow line below ; 

 the last segment of the abdomen has a small slight spot on each side. 



Length 12 lines. 



Hdb. Honduras. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



CEREOPSIUS HELENA, White. (PI. LIII. fig. 7.) 



C. pilis brevibus creberrimis indutus, scutello, capite, thoracis 

 partibus, abdominis segmentorum marginibus subtus pilis pal- 

 lidioribus ornatis ; elytris singulis, plagis duabus magnis nigris, 

 plagulam elegdntem irregularem sericeo-albidam, includen- 

 tibus. 

 Long. unc. lin. 1 . 



Hab. Borneo (Coll. Horsburgh in Mus. Brit.). 

 Coleopteron hoc distinctum conjugis meee carissimse nomen fert ; 

 figura picturam pulchriter notatam entomologis monstrabit. 



Thorax with lateral spines, not so far back as in Mr. Pascoe's 

 pretty species Cereopsius eocoletus, from Sarawak ; the transverse 

 groove, behind front, rather deep and free from much pile, a de- 

 pressed space on the back between spine, narrower in middle in front, 

 and with a slightly emarginate protuberance behind ; the elytra 

 deeply punctured at the base, with a few scattered punctures, a very 

 slight bulge at the base on each side of the pale hair-covered scu- 

 tellum ; each elytron has a large black patch, including the bulging, 



