189 



p. 79). Some interesting species are uiifortimiith re])]-eseiiie(l 

 in D]-. H. Dohrns collectioii hy siiigle specimens only. It is 

 ver}' unadvisuble to describe tliese, it being necessary, more or 

 less, to dissect and mutilate specimens in ordcr to veallv ascertain 

 their true position. I will tlierefore only indicate these by the 

 nunil)ers they bear. 



297. Cyrtotriplax ? sp.? Head Ihorax and body Avith the 

 legs orange-yellow, a broad vitta on the thorax and the elytra 

 black (the parts not namcd not being able to be examined). 



Hab. Soekaranda. 



I have a specinien, possibh" identical from „Inde Or.^ 

 (Duvivier). In the absence of more precise lucality I refraiu 

 from eivinc, it a na nie. 



284. Cyrtotriplax? sp.? A yellow species, which at present 

 seems identical with the insect from Senegal, described by Crotch 

 Rev. p. 461, as Cyrtotriplax senegalensis, and which is according 

 to my onc Observation identical with the Amhlyopus senegalensis 

 and testacens of Lacordaire. 1 am not able at present to clear 

 this np. cf. Gorh. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1891, p. 399. 



291. Cyrtotriplax arridens n. sj). 



Late ovatns, aurantiaco-tlavus, prothorace elytrisque nigris, 

 illo punctis tribus, his pnnctis quinque in singulis laete am'antiacis; 

 capite prothoraceque erebre subtiliter, elytris striato-punctatis, 

 interstitiis fere laevigatis. Long. 5 — 5,25 millim. 



Hab. Soekaranda. 



Broadly ovate, a httle cordate. Head and body with the 

 legs of a fine blood-red, inchning to be orange-red. Antennae 

 yellow, excepting the last four or iive joints. which are fuscous; 

 short, the third Joint elongate, the club elongate and rather laxly 

 articulated; the apical Joint of the maxiUary palpi not very wide 

 biit hatchet-shaped. Thorax forming a continuons outline with 

 the elytra. the sides slightly curved, narrowing in front, more 

 tban twice as wide as long at the base, thickly and iinely 



Stett. entomol. Zeit. 1901. 



