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grossis instrncta : fomora postica abdominis segmenti sectindi basim attingentia ; 

 abdomen elongatum. 



Long. 17 mm., elxtr. 10, abd. 10, lat. If. 



Hind margins of the abdominal seijments and the n))])er snrface of tlie I'oimh 

 and fifth more or less black. Head with large scattered |)unctures, tlie interstices 

 of which— chiefly on the convex front — are finely panctulated ; the central line 

 obsolete towards the epistome. Scape of antennae —both antennae are broken at 

 the eighth joint in the single specimen in the Mnseum's collection— thickened and 

 somewliat shorter than the third joint. Prothi>rax mnch longer than broad, with 

 the sides almost straiglit : strongly cnongh l)nt rather sparsely pimctuated, with the 

 interstices of the punctnres covered again with an extremely fine punctuation ; 

 punctures of the disc conspicuously transverse. Elytra somewhat broader at the 

 base than the prothorax, narrowed behind and incurved at the sides ; each elytron 

 bears a distinct median keel, witli tliree rows of punctures inside the keel and three 

 outside. 



The under surface is finely punctured, and has also some large scattered 

 punctnres. Abdominal segments about eciual in length. 



Bab. Timor. 



NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS SCYMNUS Kugel. 

 FEOM THE EAST AND NEW GUINEA. 



(PI. YIIL, figs. 10-21.) 



Bv DR. K. JORDAN. 



WORKING out tlie coleopterous insects recently taken in tlie Indo- and 

 Austro-Malayan Archipelago by the well-known entomologist and excellent 

 collector William Doherty, of Cincinnati, U.S.A., I found a rather large 

 number of specimens of the genus Sci/mnus Kngel. As we know many species of 

 Sci/mniis from Ceylon and the southern and central parts of the Asiatic continent 

 described by Walker {A/w. Mat/. N. H., 1859), Mulsaut {S/jec. Col. Tri. S<'c., 1851, 

 and 0/juiiC. Ent, 1853), Motschoulsky {Etud. Ent., Is58 and 1859, and Bull. Mosc, 

 1866), Crotch (Eev. Coccin., 1873), Weise {Hor. S. E. Ross., xxiv.), and as only 

 a very few species are described until to-day from Sumatra (Grorham, iVof. Leyd. 

 Mm., 1884, pp. 120 — 128), Java (Bohemann, Freg. Bug. Resa, 1859), Manila 

 (Bohemaun, ibid.), it may prove useful to give the descriptions of those species 

 from the East in the Museum wliich are new, as far as I am aware. 



The well-known specialist the Rev. S. A. Gorham, describing three Sci/nuias 

 from Sumatra, says {I. c, p. 127) : " Crotch (Coca. Rev., p. 273) has proposed a genus 

 Anisoscpnnus for Sr. nifipes Fabr., which he sa\s will be well represented in tlie 

 Malay Arclniielago. But lie has not described any species. I do not see that the 

 punctuation of any of the three species liere described is • un('([Uiil ' cither in the size 

 of punctures or in the mode of its distribution." 



I may add that I have not been able to find characters common to the species of 

 the East Indian Archijielago which I have before ine, suflicicnt to justify the found- 

 ing of the genus A//i.HOscyii//mi<. Indeed, there arc sjiecies with a very remarkabh; 



