MK.F . P. PASC0E ON TIIU UI! JICUL10NIDVK. 



armata, postice corpus superantia; tibia teretes, subarcuataB •; 

 tarsi longiusculi, articulo tertio parum dilatato. Mima pec- 

 toralis inter coxas iutermedias protensa, apice cavernosa. Mc- 

 tasternum elongatum. Abdomen normale. 



The form of the femora is eminently distinctive of this genus. 

 I place it after Cyamobolus, Schdn. 



Diatassa phalerata. (PI. IX. fig. 2.) D. ovata, nigra, opaca, 

 squamis fuscis vestita, lineisque supra dense silaceo-squamosis or- 

 nata; capite antice dense subsilaceo-squamoso, inter oculos fovea 

 profunda impresso ; rostro piceo, basi oblongo-punctato ; antennis 

 subferrugineis, funiculo articulis quatuor basalibus fere aequalibus ; 

 prothorace latitudine longitudini sequali, rude squamoso, dorso lineis 

 silaceis, tribus longitudinalibus, una pone medium transversa, deco- 

 rato ; seutello silaceo-squamoso ; elytris remote seriatim punctatis, 

 punctis basi majoribus, apicem versus gradatim minoribus, linea 

 suturali, alteraque submediana, antice angulata, tertiaque postice ad 

 latera silaceis ; corpore infra squamulis parvis sparse irrorato ; pe- 

 dibus dense silaceo-squamosis ; clava femorum fusco-lavata. Long. 

 5 1in. 



Hab. Mysol. 



Peiiissops. 



(Cryptorhynchinae.) 



Rostrum validiusculum, stibarcuatum, basi squamosum; scrobes 

 medianse, laterales, rectae. Scapus oculum attingens ; funicu- 

 lus articulis duobus basalibus longiusculis, quinque ultimis 

 moniliformibus ; clava oblongo-ovalis, velutina. Oculi sub- 

 grosse granulati, antice perparum approximantes. Prothorace 

 conicus, utrinque paulo rotundatus, basi bisinuatus, lobis ocu- 

 laribus distinctis. Scutellum punctiforme. Elytra ovata, con- 

 vexa, humeris rotundatis. Pedes breviusculi ; femora incras- 

 sata, antica obsolete dentata, vel dente parvo instructa ; tibia 

 compressse, subarcuatse ; tarsi vix elongati, normales. Mima 

 pectoralis pone coxas anticas terminata, apice cavernosa. Me- 

 tasternum modice elongatum. Abdomen normale. 



The type of this genus has long been known in collections 

 under the name of Perissops lynx ( Jekel), but was first published 

 in the ' Novara Voyage,' by Redtenbacher, who referred it to 

 Enteles {E. ocellatus, Redbr.). Enteles differs from Perissops in 

 many of the characters given above, notably in its longer slender 

 rostrum, with the pectoral canal open at the apex, and extending 



