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Show 1866.] MR. F. P. PASCOE O N THE COLEOPTERA OF PENANG. 229 LAMIID^E. ACANTHOCININ.E. EOPORIS. Eoporis, Pascoe, Long. Malay, p. 15. EOPORIS ELEGANS, Pascoe, /. c. p. 16, pi. 1. f. 6. Two specimens of this widely distributed species, which is found so far south as New Guinea, occur in the collection. OSTEDES. Ostedes, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2. v. p. 43. OSTEDES . T w o species of this, or a nearly allied genus, are in the collection, but are not sufficiently perfect to admit of description. ExOCENTRINiE. CuPHISIA. Caput magnum; oculi parvi, profunde emarginati. Antennae setosar, scapo tenuiter cylindrico articulo tertio breviore. Prothorax transversus, lateraliter inermis. Head large, broad and convex in front; antennary tubers short, remote ; lip small, rounded; eyes small, lateral, deeply divided; palpi short, pointed. Antennae slender, setose, rather longer than the body ; the scape attenuate, cylindrical, shorter than the third ^k joint; the rest gradually but rapidly diminishing. Prothorax short, transverse, not broader than the head, the sides unarmed and slightly rounded. Elytra rather broad, with parallel sides, only rounded at the apex; the shoulders prominent; the disk with a slight callosity on each side near the scutellum. Legs of moderate length ; anterior and intermediate coxae globose and exserted, with the acetabula of the former broadly triangular externally ; femora rather incras-sated ; anterior tibiae slightly curved, the rest straight; tarsi equal, the three basal joints, taken together, triangular. Pro- and meso-sterna simple. Body setose. Twenty-two genera of this subfamily were found by M r . Wallace ; but there is only one exponent of it in this collection, representing a form which cannot be referred to any of them, although coming near Eyesina. From that genus, however, it differs in its slender antennae and elongate and cylindrical scape, which, notwithstanding, is shorter than the third joint; Emeopedus is in no wise setose ; Ebarides and Dyemus differ in their remarkably thickened and nodulose antennae ; Euispia and Nesomomus have also differently formed antennae ; and, lastly, Oloessa has (inter alia) divided eyes. All the other eastern genera have the prothorax spined or toothed at the sides. |