a Family of Coleopterous Insects. 669 



not materially disagree from Pentaplatarthriis 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. 

 pi. 6. Jig. 1. Don. Ins. New Holland (sub Cerapt. Mac- 

 Leaii). Schonh. Sy7i. Ins. vol. i. p.S. part. IQ. no. 1. 



Habitat, . . .'. vid. infr^. 



Long. Corp. e figura Swederi, lin. 6. Magn. nat. Silphae 4-ma- 

 culataj. Swed. 



Corpus latum, depressum. " Caput nigrum subpunctatum. Oculi 

 albescentes. Antenna ferrugineo-piceae, hirtae ; palpi fer- 

 ruginei, pariim hirti. Thorax planiusculus, anticfe et pos- 

 tich truncatus, lateribus dilatatis, rotundatis, ferrugineo- 

 piceus, hirtus, posticfeque 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, pariim hirta. Pedes piceo-ferruginei, 

 femoribus tibiisque brevissimis, latissimis, compressis, ele- 

 vato-punctatis, parOim 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.) maculae ely- 



trorum 



