a Family of Coleopterous Insects. 669 
not materially disagree from Pentaplatarthrus and Paussus; and 
as both Swederus and Donovan have given figures of the under- 
sides of their respective species, I have not thought it material 
to add a similar representation of the Javanese specimen. Of 
the habits of the species nothing is recorded. 
Species 1. CERAPTERUS LATIPES. Swederus. 
C. latus, depressus, ‘‘ piceus, elytris macula flavescente,” api- 
cali majuscula, ** pedibus latissimis, tarsis intra tibias, re- 
tractilibus." ; 
C. latipes. Swed. Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. &c. T. 9. 1788. p. 203. 
| pl. 6. fig. 1. Don. Ins. New Holland (sub Cerapt. Mac- 
Leaü). Schonh. Syn. Ins. vol. i. p.3. part. 19. no. 1. 
Habitat, .... vid. infra. 
Long. corp. e figura Swederi, lin. 6. Magn. nat. Silphz 4-ma- 
culate. Swed. 
Corpus latum, depressum. ‘‘Caput nigrum subpunctatum. Oculi 
albescentes. Antenne ferrugineo-picez, hirte ; palpi fer- 
ruginei, parüm hirti. Thorax planiusculus, anticó et pos- 
ticé truncatus, lateribus dilatatis, rotundatis, ferrugineo- 
piceus, hirtus, postictque utrinque foveolatus. Scutellum 
majusculum, triangulare, glabrum, nigro-piceum. Elytra 
glabra, punctis minutissimis excavatis, inordinatis, apice 
truncata,” singula ** macula versus apicem majuscula, su- 
tura, margineque postico, flavescentibus. Pectus et Abdo- 
men ferrugineo-picea, parùm hirta. Pedes piceo-ferruginei, 
femoribus tibiisque brevissimis, latissimis, compressis, ele- 
vato-punctatis, parùm hirtis, tibiis intra femora retractilibus. 
Tarsi angusti, filiformes, breves, ciliati, intra tibias retrahi 
et celari possunt.” 
Obs. 1. Primum pedum par abfuit.. 
Obs. 2. In delineatione insecti Swederi (fig. 1 & 2.) maculæ ely- 
trorum 
