340 



CERAMBYCID^E. 



Tmesisternus biarciferus, Blanch. Voy. Pole Sud, iv. 280. 1. 16. 



f. 12. 

 Hab. New Guinea (Triton Bay). 



18. Tmesisternus adspersus. 



T. latus, subplanus, nigro-seneus ; capite sulcata, lateribus al- 

 bido-piloso ; antennis basi nigris, apice fuscis ; tborace late- 

 ribus grosse punctato, albido-piloso ; elytris grosse punctatis, 

 plaga basilari laevi, maculis fasciolisque duabus albido-sericeis. 



Tmesisternus adspersus, Blanch. Voy. Pole Sud, iv. 279. 

 Tmesisternus marmoratus, Voy. Pole Sud, t. 16. f. 18 (nee 



Guer.). 

 Hab. Arrow Islands (Lombo Bay). 



19. Tmesisternus mirabilis. B.M. 



T. cyaneus ; elytris viridibus micantibus, fasciis tribus albis, 

 postica obsoleta, tibiis fulvis. 



Tmesisternus mirabilis, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, ii. 468. 

 Icthyosome admirable, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, t. 8. f. 5. 

 Hab. New Guinea (Dory) ; Amboina or Ceram (M me Pfeiffer). 



222. PASCOEA, n. g. 



Head wider than long, flat, depressed, with an outstanding 

 somewhat compressed appendage on each side behind the eyes ; 

 eye almost separated into two parts by the very deep notch from 

 which springs the antenna. Head narrowed much behind the 

 eye ; jaws strong and ridged on the outside and somewhat hol- 

 lowed out below, covering the palpi ; under side of head behind 

 the labium hollowed out. Antennae reaching to the end of the 

 elytra ; joints after the first ciliated on the inside, first joint 

 stoutish, thickened gradually towards the tip : third joint rather 

 longer than the first, somewhat bent inwardly ; fourth joint 

 slightly longer than the third and slightly bent outwardly; the 

 others gradually shorter and thinner to the end. Thorax wider 

 than long, transverse, front edge nearly straight, back flatfish, 

 sides twice sinuated, a short sharpish spine on each side, rather 

 wide at the base and inserted beneath the flattened back of the 

 prothorax, fore angle somewhat rounded, hind angle straight ; 

 mesothorax in front notched between the middle legs, and re- 

 ceiving a sternal process on the under side of the prothorax. 

 Elytra somewhat wider than the thorax, lobed at the base on 

 each side of the scutellum, lobe rounded and produced over the 



