184 



Aulacochilus Doriae Bedel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1872, p. 27.^, 



Hui). Soek.iranda. Liangagas. 



Aulacochilus luniferus Guerin, Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 1.56. 

 Lacord., Mon. Erolyl. p. 249. Bedel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Tran. 1871; 



Hab. Soekaranda. 



I do not remember to htive seeu this froni Sumatra before; 

 it is recorded froin Java and Borneo, I have an examplc frorn 

 Penang (AA'allace) and one N. W. P. India? (God\Yin-Austen). 



Aulacochilus binnanicus Bedel, loc. cit. p. 280 (nee. Gorh. 

 Notes IVom Leyden Mus. X. 1888, ]). 133. 



Hai). Soekaranda. 



I bave before remarked upon the wide di^tribution of 

 specics of this genus, but I now think the speeies from Arn and 

 Cerain, l'ormei'ly referred by nie to this name, is a difi'erent 

 insect (which I aceordingly now characterize as ^4. tnoensicus^. 

 I have (Ann. Mus. Civ. Geu. XVI. 1896, p. 280) referred an 

 insect coUected b}' Herr Fea at Bhamo, to A. birmanicus, and 

 I think correctly, and I cannot separate the Sumatra insect from 

 it, although it is smaller and has the „flancs" of the prothorax 

 very smooth, it is Hke the Bhamo speeies black and has the 

 head and ])rnthorax very distinctly and closely punetured. Tlie 

 form of the prosternal elevation and the oblique impressed linc 

 on the nietasternum and those on the basal segment of the 

 abdomen are so similar in these allied speeies, that I cannot 

 use them for distinction. There are two Sumatran examples 

 before me. 



Aulacochilus Moensicus n. sp. 



^1. birmanictis Gorh., Notes from Leyden Mus. X. 1888, 

 p. 133 (nee Bedel). 



A. birmanico simihs et aflinis, magis ovatus, nitidissimus, 

 nigro-caeruleus ; corpore subtus et })edibus rufo-piceis, eapiie 

 prothoraeeque sat, crebre sed ])areius dislincte i)imctatis, elytris 

 conjunctim anindinn rufum praebenti|)iis, maculam quadratam 



Stett. OBtomol. Zeit. 1901. 



