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The legs are bluck with the exceptioii ol' the soles of the 

 ■wideued joiiiLs of the iarsi and that the bilobed second jdiiit is 

 yellowiyh red. The base of the inetasteniuni is raised and 

 tliickened; its apex and the base of the abdomen are deeply 

 punctured. 



Two examples \vei-e obtained by nie froni Dohertys 1891- 

 colleetion. The Snniatran insect is so very similar, that it can 

 ^carcely be separated on two examples. Bat the elytra seeni 

 a little more convex and „gibbous" and the red niarking is 

 niore hmited and approaehes more to the apex. 



Mycetina brivicollis sp. n. 



■]!. africanae Gorh. simihs et affmis, breviter oblonga, 

 castanea, nitida, antennis nigris, articidis duobus primis apiceque 

 summa ferrugineis; articuhs 3 — 8 subquadratis, quinque ultimis 

 gradatim crassioribus. 9 — 10 transversis. Prothorace transverso, 

 sulcis basahbus brevibus, ad basin fossas trianguläres pi-aebentibus, 

 elytris crebre, distincte, leviter punctatis. Long. 3.5 millini. 



Hab. Borneo, Martapura (Doherty). 



The colour of this Mycetina is deep chestnut-red, in one 

 example of the two (taken at the same place and time) a little 

 paler at the humeral callus and the angles and sides of the 

 thorax, the antennae being black ^ith the two basal joints and 

 the compressed tip of the apical Joint red. The antennae are 

 stoutformed as in all the typical Mycetinae, i. e. : the second 

 Joint very small, the third not longer than the fourtli or 

 succeeding joints and the- club formed l)y the gradual widening 

 of the last four or tive joints. The thorax is transverse, very 

 smooth and impunctate, its margins o\\\y a very little reflexed; 

 the basal striolae are deeply impressed at the base, as fossae 

 terminating in linear striolae before the middle, m hieb curve very 

 little inwards; they are joined by the usual submarginal stria. 

 The elytra are a httle wider, than the thorax. tlie humerus 

 distinctly raised, the disk thickly and very distinctly punctured, 



Stett. entomol. Zeit. 1901. 



