382 MAKTIN JACOin' 



middle, antcniiao very sliort, oidy extending to the middle ot" 

 the tliorax, the lower four or live joints Havous, the rest darker, 

 the second and tliird joints small, the terminal ones forming a 

 transversely- shaped cluh, thorax mure than twice as hroad as 

 long, scarcely widened, the sides evenly rounded, the angles 

 distinct i)ut not produced , the surface with a few very fine 

 punctures, irregularly disti-il)uted. the base a little more closely 

 and strongly punctured , with a row of closely placed strong 

 punctures along the basal margin which is produced into a point 

 in front of the scutcUum , a few similar punctures also accom- 

 pany the lateral margins, scutellum narrowly lanceolate, elytra 

 subcylindrical , not depressed Ijelow the base , finely ])unctate- 

 striate ; the connnencement of each row at the base marked by 

 deepen' jiunctures, the interstices impunctate, the last two at the 

 sides slightly convex, elytral epipleurae below the shoulders but 

 slightly produced and rounded, prosternum sulxjuadrate, broailer 

 than long, its base straight, the surface strongly ))Ut sparingly 

 pimctured, mesostiu-num narrowly transverse, distinctly punc- 

 tured, legs fulvous or piceous with the tibiae and tarsi fulvous. 



Hab. Padang , Benculen , Cauer. 



One of the smallest species of this genus, of which it seems 

 to possess all the principal characters, the pointi'd median lobe 

 of the thorax which closely tits th(^ narrow, not elevated scu- 

 tellum and the shape of the prosternum ; the eyes are not deej)ly 

 notched and the antennae have the club six-jointed, the pygidium 

 is not covered by the elytra and the last al)(lominal segment of 

 the female has a, shallow fovea. 



(i. Bucharis oculatus, u. sp. — Black, shining, tlu^ basal joints 

 of the anteimai' and the legs fulvous, thorax distinctly puncturi'd 

 at the l)ase only, elytra strongly and regularly punctate-striale, 

 the interstices at the sides convex. 



Length ^4 iiii<^- 



Of nearly cylindrical, posteriorly not widened shapi', the eyes 

 extremely large, occupying the entire sides and vertex of the 

 head where they touch, they an* I)Ut slightly and angularly 

 emarginate at their inner margin. clyj)eus llatti'ued , rather 



