144 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



the base to the apex and truncated at the tip, the paraglossae 

 adhering to it and hardly projecting beyond ; last joint of labial 

 palpi fusiform and very sharp at the tip, that of the maxillary 

 truncate ; mandibles nearly covered by the labrum, which is 

 narrowed in front and slightly incised at the tip ; head triangular, 

 suddenly narrowed behind in a short neck ; eyes large and very 

 prominent ; antennae filiform, slender, the joints, with the exception 

 of the three basal ones, with four or five long bristles ; prothorax 

 very convex, inflated in the median part ; elytra more than twice as 

 broad at the base than the basal part of the prothorax, parallel with 

 the shoulders, rounded, truncated posteriorly, w^ith the outer angle 

 sharp, depressed, or slightly convex, more or less deeply punctato- 

 striate, third interval with three distinct punctures ; legs slender ; 

 tarsi narrow, subfiliform, the fourth one small and slightly incised ; 

 claws not pectinate. 



Hah. Two representatives of this genus are recorded from Senegal 

 and Zanzibar, and one from India. 



Synopsis of Species . 



Elytra punctato-striate, with the intervals plain ; ten small yellow 

 dots on each elytron • tcssellata. 



Elytra broadly and deeply punctato-striate ; intervals narrow, 

 convex. 



Longitudinal yellow band, notched in the middle on each side, 

 and an uneven transverse post-median moderately broad macula . . gracilis. 



Three yellowish indistinct patches on each elytron jucunda. 



Lasioceea tessellata, Klug, 



Monatsb. Berl. Ac, 1853, p. 249 ; Peters' Eeise, 1862, p. 174, pi. 9, 



fig. 3. 



Dark greenish bronze on the head and prothorax ; head finely and 

 closely punctured ; antennae flavescent ; palpi also flavescent, with 

 the apical part of the ultimate joints slightly infuscated ; prothorax 

 oblongo-ovate, very closely and deeply punctured ; elytra elongated, 

 very slightly ampliated towards the apical part, truncated obliquely 

 behind, with the posterior angles acute and the humeral angles a 

 little rounded, depressed, finely punctato-striate with the intervals 

 plane, the third one with three punctures, bronze, and having on 

 each side an elongated sub-basal patch on the fifth interval, a small 

 dot below it on the fourth, three adjoining one another at about the 

 median part on the fifth, sixth, and seventh respectively, two in the 

 posterior part on the third and fourth, and two more a little lower 

 down on the fifth and sixth, also a supra-apical one close to the 



