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name of the " author ", but the number of tlie j-ear in which 

 the species was described , behind the name of the insect ; 

 thus: Physopterus alboguUatus (1894). My reasons for doing so 

 are these : 



1). While the name of the author does not help us mudi, if 

 there is no full reference given , to find out when and where 

 the insect in question has been described , the addition of the 

 year to the name of the insect tells us at once in which volume 

 of the Zoological Record the place of the description can be 

 found (See also Natural Science 1896, IX, p. 76), 



2). As I am the " author " of about 300 species of Anthrihidae 

 and shall probably become the " author " of a still larger number, 

 I should have to bring my own name before the reader again 

 and again and thus acquire that kind of clieap immortality 

 to which critics of classificatory work have now-a-days so often 

 alluded as being the chief aim of the pubblication of mere 

 descriptions of species. By the above method of citing the name 

 of a species this cutting criticism loses the point. 



Zoological Museum, Tring, Herts., September 1, 1897 



1. Phloeopemon acuticornis (1801), Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth. 11, 

 p. 40 0, n. 4 (Sumatra). 



Siboga, Sumatra (Modigliani); 2 c/'c/', 1 9, which agree 

 well with continental examples. 



2. Mecocerus assimilis sumatranus, subsp. nov. 



c/" 9 . Differs from Javanese assimilis (189.")) only in the fol- 

 lowing points: The rostrum is not pubescent on the sides, its 

 lateral groove is deep; the pronotum has eight whitish spots, 

 three on each side, one in tlie centre, and one in front of the 

 scutellum; the alternate interstices of the elytra (1, 3, 5, 7 and 9) 

 are marked with elongate whitish spots, between wliich stand 

 black dots ; underside with a lateral yellowish patch on pro- 

 and metasternum. 



Ilab. Siboga, Sumatra (Modigliani) ; 1 c^, 4 9 9 . 



3. Physopterus sumatranus, sp. nov. 



</• 9 . Speciei Ph. alboguttatus diclae a/finis; antennis nigris. 



