I'HYTOPHAGA FROM SUMATRA 473 



This species may be at once known by the but moderately 

 tUhited antennae and the want of a spine in the male as well 

 as by the colour of the alxlomen. 



126. Haplosonyx basalis, n. s}). — Black, the head, antennae, 

 thorax and the anterior legs fulvous, thorax finely punctured, 

 deeply sulcate, elytra very closely and irregularly punctured, 

 fulvous, the basal portion and the extreme apex black. 



Var. Elytra fulvous. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head im})unctate, the frontal tubercles and the clypeus thicken- 

 ed, palpi swollen, antennae extending beyond the middle of the 

 elytra, pale Havous, o})aque, the lower three joints shining only, 

 second and third joint very short, fourth longer than the fifth, 

 tliorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides straight, 

 the anterior angles oljlique, the surface with a deep transverse 

 sulcation at each side, interrupted at the middle , rather finely 

 and sparingly (sometimes more strongly) punctured , scutellum 

 black, elyti'a very closely and more distinctly punctured than 

 the thorax, the basal portion , extending nearly to the middle , 

 as well as the extreme apex, black, the rest fulvous, the under- 

 side and the four posterior legs more or less black, the anterior 

 ones fulvous, sometimes all the tarsi of the latter colour. 



Ilab. Si-Rambé, Pangherang-Pisang. 



Of only half the size than //. speciosus, Baly which the pre- 

 sent species somewhat resembles in colour; the irregular and 

 close punctuation agrees with //. nlijrkollk, Du\-iv. but of course, 

 not the coloration of the thorax and upper surface ; the variety 

 differs in nothing except in the fulvous colour of the elytra 

 which show however a trace of the black apex. 



127. Cynorta sumatrana, Jac. — Three specimens obtained at 

 Si-Rambé show some slight differences from the type (Notes 

 Leyden Mus. 1878, Vol. IX) they are larger, the labrum is 

 stained with piceous as ^\ell as the tibiae and tarsi; the lower 

 portion of the face is Ijright fiavous and the thorax shows some 

 traces of punctuation , it is therefore possible that I have a 

 closely allied species before me. C. parvida, Jac. is smaller and 



