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Üiau in tho lemule^ they vise ini<» a laminatc thovn-likr point, 

 converging and turning a lillle liackv ar«l : vi('^\od sideAvays 

 Uiev appear like liunis. 'Jlu' apox of tlic elytia is (.bli(iuel.v 

 Inincalt' aiid at tlie oulei- angk- uf Ihc tniiicaliou obtuselj 

 nuicronate, hut not distinctly ur sharply so, as in A. papulatus : 

 Ihe piincturing is (»bsoletely nigo.sc, eoriaceous and the purtace 

 opaqiu'. The two hinder spiuos arc ckise together at their 

 bases and there is not rooni hotwceu theni lor vows tif puuctures, 

 as may he seen in ihe exampk-s, I refer lo .1. h i/sf ricosus Gerf^i. 



Amphisternus papulatus sp. n. 



Niger, opacus, thorace obsolete eanaheuUito, angulis auticis 

 aciitis, prodnctis- elytris disperse fortiter, inter spinas postieas 

 subseriatini punctatis, apice valde niueroinito, spinis duabns vaUdis 

 arniatis. tubereulis duol)us uno liasali aUero ante ajjicem in niacuk 

 transversa sanguineis; spinae ad basin et huineri nonnunquam 

 sanguineo-notati. Long. 7 — 8 niilhni. ,^. ¥• 



Hab. Soekaranda, Liangagas (6 ex. l- $)• 



Mas, tibiis antieis ante apicem, dente parvo interne armatis. 



Yar. Pedibus piceis. 



I have not seen any examples of AmphistentHS Injsfricosus 

 Gerst., l»ut this species mnst be ver} near 'to it and it will 

 he snfficient, to point out those ebaraeters in which it difters 

 from the deseriptirai of that speeies. The male eharacter of 

 a tooth on the front tibiae is not usual in this seetion ot the 

 genus; it may he that all the examples of A. hysirirostis were 

 females: at least Gerstaecker had seen no males similar to oiirs. 

 A. papulatus is qtnte hlack, there is no a])pearanee (»f hlue. 

 Ihough parts may be pitehy. The presenee nf a sinall red 

 pimple on the humeral carina and of a blood-red bat indistinet 

 mark on the basal side of the root of the spines are not ulkided 

 to under A. htjslricosus. The ajjieal red iubeieule is not 

 double, as deseribed by Gerstaeeker. bat is in one species 

 a Single shining pimple rising from a transverse, sliglitly areuate 



Stett. entomol. Zeit. 1901. 13* 



