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does not quite agree with S. Austriilian specimens of tliat insect. 

 I do not tliink, liowever, that it would be desirable to found a 

 new species on a single example in this large and difficult genus, 

 unless it presented some well-defined distinctive character, which 

 the present species does not. 



Ckyptokiiynciiini. 



NEOLYB^^BA (gen. nov.). 



Rostrum elongatum gracile leviter arcuatum ; sorobes (exempli 

 typioi) mediame sat rectte ; oculi grosse granulati ; antenna? 

 sat graciles, funiculo 7 - articulate ; prothorax ad basin 

 fortiter bisinuatus, lobis ocularibus latis ; coxte anticis 

 contiguaj ; femora subtus dentata (anticis angulatis magis 

 quam perspicue dentatis); unguiculi liberi ; abdominis 

 segmentum basale (quam metastei'num parum loiigius) quam 

 2°" fere duplo lougius, hoc quam 3°' 4"" que conjuncti parum 

 breviori, sutura prima parum ai'cuata. 



The species for which I propose this new name does not appear 

 capable of being referred to any existing genus. It belongs to the 

 group of Cryptorliynchides in which the rostral canal is very 

 short (not separating the anterior coxse), and which consequentlj^ 

 form a connecting link between the CryptorliyncJiides and 

 Erirliinides. Among these it is distinguished by the following 

 characters in combination ; rostrum elongate and not subulate, 

 eyes very coarsely facetted (as in Blelanterius ), base of prothorax 

 strongly bisinuate, femora dentate beneath, body densely clothed 

 with scales. The general form is extremely like that of the 

 Erirliinid genus Gerynassa. Probably Lybceha is really the 

 nearest ally of this genus. 



N. remota, sp. nov. Testaceo-rufa; squamis rufis albidisque (his 

 maculatim intermixtis) confertim vestita ; rostro quam pro- 

 thorax paullo longiori, glabro nitido (parte basali squamosa 

 excepta); antennarum funiculi articulis basalibus 2 elongat- 

 is, ceteris sat brevibus ; prothorace quam longiori paullo 

 latiori, antice subtubulato ; elytris subtiliter punctulato- 

 striatis, interstitiis 3° 5° que apicem versus (et 7° antice) 

 convexis, humeris extrorsum prominulis, interstitiis 3° 5° 7° 

 que hie illic obtuse tuberculatis. Long, (rostr. excl.), 2-t 1. ; 

 lat. 11. 



The whitish scales are the most numerous; regarding them as 

 the ground-colour, the red scales form two large ill-defined 

 blotches near the base of the prothorax, and a number of small 

 ill-defined spots on the elytra. The scutellum is white. 



Everard Range. 



