580 BEV. H. s. goeha:m os [June 20, 



Peloniltm(?) nigro-.^xeum, n, sp. 



Nijrum, superne cHueo-nitens ; capite 2'>rothoraceqite crehre suhtiliter 

 punctatis^ nitidis ; elijtris quam protlwrax duplo latioribus 

 creherrime itue'iualiter punctatis, punctis uhique conjlaentibus, 

 puhe (jrisea tenui dense vestitis ; abdominis apice pcdlescente, 

 antennaram articulo primo subtas testaceo. Long. 7-J 2 niillim. 



Hah. Assam, Patkai Moiiutains (Doherti/). 



Auteiinse with the basal joint stout, slightly curved ; second joint 

 short, beaJ-shaped; third elongate, compressed ; fourth to eighth 

 gradually shorter, the seventh and eighth being transverse, the 

 latter especially being very short and smaller than the seventh ; 

 the ninth and tenth joints large, triangular, subequal, the apical 

 one more oval ; the palpi have their apical joints oblong and 

 truncate, wider than the preceding joints, in both pairs. The 

 eyes are renit'orm, moderately strongly faceted, deeply excised, 

 with a short ridge, beneath which the antennae take their origin. 

 The thorax has the sides evenly rounded ; it is a little more 

 narrowed in front than behind, the constrictions are obsolete ; it, 

 as well as the head, legs, and sides of the elytra, has a rather long 

 but fine grey pubescence. The punctuation of the elytra is thick 

 and irregular ; the punctures are broken, i. e. the larger ones seem 

 formed of groups of confluent smaller ones ; towards the apex the 

 larger pits gradually disappear. The legs are black, but not deeply 

 so, the body beneath and the trochanters tending to be pitchy. 



Three specimens Avere obtained by Doherty, one much smaller 

 than the other two, and having the last three joints of the 

 antennae much longer and thinner than in those examples. 



SlSYBNOPHOilUS. 



Sisyrnophonis, C. Waterhouse, Ent. Mo. Mag. xiii. (1876) 

 p. 125. 



This singular genus was detected by myself among the Cocci- 

 nellidse at the British Museum— the typical species, S. maculatus, 

 at first sight roughly resembling some species of that familv. Two 

 species were characterized by the author — S. maculatus from the 

 Philippine Islands and >S. bowriur/ii from Penang. I do not at 

 present see that there was sufficient ground for separating it 

 from AUochotes, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 241. But 

 anyhow that name appears too close to Allocotus (Eieber), Puton 

 (Hemiptera), Ent. Mo. Mag. xi. p. 146 (1874). 



Westwood describes {loc. cit.) seven species. 



Choresiae, Pascoe, to which he compares the genus, belongs to tlie 

 Melyridse. 



SlSYRNOPHOEUS BIRMANICUS, n. Sp. 



Lcete ferrujineus ; eh/tHs metallico-viridibus, nitidis, crebre sxd>- 



tiliter punctatis. Long. 8 millim. 

 Hab. Burmah, Ruby Mines {Dohertg). 

 Head and thorax rich rusty — almost blood — red, very fuiely, 



