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13. Scymnus conformis sjj. nov. 



Sc. niger, subconvexus, breviter ovatns, griseo-pnbescens ; capite, prothorace, 

 elytrorura ajiice, ulxlomino (segmeuto primo medio brnnneo-piceo excepto), pedibus- 

 que testaceis. Prothorax modice dense subtiliter puuctatns ; angulis anticis sub- 

 rotnndatis vix prominulis ; basi bisinnata. Elytra nou dense, prothorace parnm 

 grossins, ad sntnram fere sj)arsatim punctata. Metasternum ad latera dense fortiter- 

 cjae, in medio minus tleu.-5e punctatum, postiee in medio spatio parvo angusto laevi 

 instructnm. Abdomen subtiliter, segmenti primi medio sparsatim punctatum. 

 Lineae coxales completae, semicirculares, marginem posteriorem segmeuti uon 

 attingentes. 



Long. 2 mm., elj-tr. 15, lat. H. 



Black, rather convex, short ovate, covered with a grejnsh pubescence. Head, 

 prothorax, tip of the elytra (about \ the lengtli), abdomen, and legs testaceous ; the 

 first segment of the abdomen pitchy brown, with the middle more blackish. The 

 prothorax rather finely and not very densely punctuated, its fore angles slightly 

 prominent and rounded, the base sinuate at each side. Elj'tra a little more coarsely 

 punctuated than the prothorax, the punctures rather sparse at the suture, denser 

 towai-ds the sides ; there are no rows of punctures, and there is no smooth space 

 at the base. The metastei-nnm has the sides densely and strongly, the middle 

 more sj)aringly punctuated ; a very narrow space in the centre before the hind 

 margin smootli. The punctures of the abdomen dense and rather fine, sparse in the 

 middle of the first segment. The coxal lines are completfs forming a ratlier flattened 

 arc, extending only to two-thirds of the length of the segment. 



Hab. Martapura, S.E. Borneo (W. Doherty, 1891). 



As regards the punctuation of the elytra and the colour, this species is allied to 

 Sc. haemorrhous, from which it may be at once distinguished by its shape being 

 evidently shorter, the coxal- lines complete, the punctures of the metasternum 

 not finer towards the mesosternum than behind, etc. It difters from Sc. brevis in 

 the punctuation of the elytra and metasternum, in the shape of the coxal lines, 

 tiie colour of the scutellum and metasternum : from Sc. thoracicaiis in the elytra 

 having no rows of punctures, etc. 



U. Scymnus brunneus Gorham. 



{Not. Leyd. Mus., 1885, p. 125.) 



There are in the collection made by William Doherty in the Tenimber Islands 

 three specimens which agree with the description of Sc. brunneu.i Gorh. from 

 Sumatra. The coxal lines, not mentioned in the description, are complete, not 

 reaching the hind margin of the segment, with the exterior portion less curved and 

 more declivous than the interior one. 



15. Scymnus grossus sp. nov. 



.bV. niger, ovatus, convexns, densiter pubescens ; capite, prothorace, elytrorum 

 apice, abdomine pedibusque rufo-testaceis, mesosteruo et lateribus metasterni 

 brnnneo-piceis. Prothorax dense sat minute, elytra subtiliter, ad basim fortius ot 

 minus dense punctata, antice sjiatio oblongo suturali laevi iustructa, hoc spatio 

 pnnctis grossis series irregulares forinantibns ciucto ; elytrurnni ajiicibns rotundatis, 

 abdominis segmentum nltinium imn tegentibus. McfastiTinini dense fortiter 



