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equal , iiitei-iiiediatc Joints slightly \vÌ(1cii(m1 , IJiorax tiii'ec times 

 broader than long, the sides strongly narrowed in front, greatly 

 rounded at the middle, the lateral margin reilexed, the surface 

 impunctate, fulvous, shining, scutellum fulvous, elytra shining, 

 black, microscopically punctured, their epipleurae broad and 

 concave, underside and legs fulvous, til)iae and tarsi darker, the 

 posterior claw-joint swollen, prosternum longitudinally sulcate. 



Hah. Sumatra (my collection). 



Allied to If. pkeipennis, lialy ])ut larger, the antennae with 

 the terminal joint fulvous, the elytra black without a row o'i 

 punctures at the margins. 



75. Oedionychis padangensis, n. sp. — Pale testaceous, the 

 labrum, the antennae and the apex of the posterior femora black, 

 thorax with a basal groove, nearly impunctate, elytra with a 

 short row of punctures l)elow the shoulders and near the suture 

 only. 



Length 1 '^j^-'i lines. 



Head with some deep punctures near the eyes and one or 

 two others at the middle of the vertex, the frontal elevations 

 strongly raised, trigonate, clypeus broad, convex, labrum black, 

 antennae not extending to the middle of the elytra, black, the 

 basal joint testaceous, terminal joints rather strongly thickened, 

 pubescent, thorax twice as broad as long, with broad flattened 

 sides, the angles acute, dentiform, the lateral margins strongly 

 rounded anteriorly, the base with a narrow transverse groove, 

 the surface impunctate, scutellum short, transverse, elytra with 

 a narrow longitudinal depression within the shoulders, the de- 

 pression punctured as well as the space close to the suture 

 anteriorly, the rest of the surface nearly impunctate, but with 

 numerous small piceous spots , the sides of the breast and the 

 a})ex of the femora more or less Ijlack. 



Hab. Padang. 



A small species, distinct on account of the impunctate thorax, 

 its broadly flattened sides and transverse groove, and l)y the 

 few punctures of the elytra, placed within the longitudinal de- 

 pression and near the suture, tlie claw joint of the posterior 



