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Show 1866.] MR. F. P. PASCOE ON THE COLEOPTERA OF PENANG. 241 prothorace plagis duabus basalibus, scutelloque medio pur pur eo-fuscis ; tarsisfuscis. Dark brown, covered with a coarse yellowish-grey pile; head white between the eyes, the vertex with two purplish-brown spots; prothorax transverse, a large purplish-brown spot on each side extending to the base ; scutellum triangular, with a dark-brown central spot; elytra subtrigonate, strongly crested at the base, three well-marked raised lines on each, across the middle, and curving round from the shoulders a broad band paler and less pubescent than the base and apex; body beneath pilose, yellowish grey, the abdomen ashy; legs closely covered with a yellowish-grey pubescence, the tarsi dark brown, with a few scattered hairs; antennae yellowish brown. Length 6 lines. This description is from a specimen in m y own collection, taken by Captain Smythe of H. M . 34th ; Mr. Lamb's example is smaller and much injured. It is a very distinct species, and will stand for the present after Praonetha scopulifera, Pasc. PRAONETHA VILLOSA. P. fusca, brunneo-griseo pubescens; prothorace bituberculato; scutello triangulari; elytris obscure fusco variis, linea curvata alba ante cristam posticam sita, crista antica nigro pilosa, apicibus rotundatis. Dark brown, with a pale brownish-grey pile, and numerous fine erect hairs; head with a few punctures in front, antennary tubers strongly marked ; prothorax subtransverse, the disk slightly bituber-culate, with numerous small punctures ; scutellum triangular ; elytra slightly subtrigonate, rather coarsely punctured, compressed, the basal crests formed of black erect hairs, a short curved white trans- • verse line before the posterior crests, rest of the elytra obscurely varied with brown; body beneath and legs rufous, with a thin grey pile ; antennae brown, slightly annulate with grey. Length 4 lines. This species will stand in m y fifth section of the genus, after P. fractilinea, characterized by the " elytra abruptly declivous posteriorly, the angle generally furnished with a short tuft (of hair)- the exterior raised lines nearly obsolete." There are two or three other species in the collection, which appear to be distinct from any of the fifty-three species described in the ' Longicornia Malayaua.' ROPICA. Ropica, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2. iv. p. 247. ROPICA VINACEA, Pascoe, Long. Malay, p. 194. Found also at Ternate and Sarawak by Mr. Wallace, whose collection contained twenty-three species. SYBRA. Sybra, Pascoe, Long. Malay, p. 198. |
