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Catascopus. Colours metallic, brilliant, without pale markings. 



Tropical Asia, Australia, Africa, America. 

 MiscELUs. Body elongate, colours black ; facies of Feronia. 



Tropical Asia. 

 I doubt whether Eucheila, Shombodera, and Scopodes can be in- 

 cluded in the group, owing to the widely different form of the labrum, 

 and in Eucheila, the very large, horny ligula ; but other genera, 

 some of them apparently undescribed, will have to be incorporated. 

 Mormolyce, included by Lacordaire in the Eericalinas, constitutes a 

 distinct sub-family. 



Coptodera polygona, n. sp. Testaceo-rufa, elytris nigris, margine 

 laterali fasciisque duabus angulatis, apud suturam haud interruptis, 

 a margine lined nigra separatis,flavo-testaceis : thorace parvo, lateri- 

 bus late marginatis, utringue bi-angulatis ; elytris latis, convexis, 

 profunde striatis, striis vis punctatis. Long. 8-9 millim. Lat. 

 elytr. 4J millim. $ . 



A species i*esembling Eurycoleus in the shape of its thorax and the large size 

 of its elytra ; the lattei*, however, are deeply striate like the majority of Coptoderos. 

 Bright testaceous-red, with the sole exception of the elytra, which are black with 

 the lateral margins and two irregular belts of a yellower-testaceous hue, one at 

 one-third and the other at three-fourths their length ; these belts are not inter- 

 rupted at the suture, but do not reach the pale lateral margin, being terminated 

 by the ninth interstice, which is black. The head with the eyes is rather narrower 

 than the thorax ; the labrum is not much elongated, but about as long as broad ; 

 the antennal joints are cylindrical, and the surface of the head is polished and 

 impunctate, with a distinct curved fovea in the middle of the forehead. The 

 thorax is very small in proportion to the elytra ; it is widened from the apex to 

 nearly the middle, then narrowed in an incurved line to the hind angles, which 

 are situated at a distance from the actual base, the latter being straight or even a 

 little emarginate in front of the yellow scutellum. The elytra are wide and some- 

 what convex, the shoulders broadly rounded and advanced, the sides with a broad 

 flat margin, and the apex obtusely truncated ; the surface is deeply sub-punctate- 

 striated, with convex and very finely alutaceous interstices ; the two pale dentated 

 belts leave three black belts of the ground colour, the basal and middle one being 

 of about the same width as the pale fasciae, and the apical one forming a large 

 black spot on each side the suture. 



Taken at Ega, Upper Amazons, running amongst fungi on the 

 bark of a dead tree in company with Eurycolei and Stenognathus 

 melanarius. 



Coptodera latipennis, n. sp. Testaceo-rufa, elytris jtavis, fasciis 

 duabus dentatis nigris, altera basali, altera pone medium ; thorace 

 ut in O. polygona, parvo, utrinque bi-angulato, elytris profunde 

 striatis, striis minute punctatis. Long. 8 millim. Lat. elytr. 4t\ 

 millim. $ . 



