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]mnctiiniig moro iincven ön the elylra and eoarscr and iiioro 

 distinet bcneatli, oii the metaslernum and basal segment of the 

 abdomen. 



' The Spot on the thorax is found in both these forms, viz. 

 finelv punctiired from Ceylon; coarsely pimetured from Hiie; the 

 latter being very black beneath, is of the vaiiety named in canta. 

 The fact is, the degree of suffusion, or coloiir, or greater or less 

 pubescence de])ends on the degree of maturity and probably on 

 season and a variety of external conditions. 



Var. ? elytris ])unefu eommiini ])Ost-scutellari, et duobus ad 

 siiturani b<'ne approximatis pone mcdiinn; tribiis marginalibus iit 

 in fkicicoUi^ elytris subtiliter aeque punetatis. 



Hab. Sinabong, 1 ex. (H. Dohrn); series of examples col- 

 lecled by Herr H. Dohrn; examples presenting every degree of 

 nnion of these sutural spots, from quite separate to just touching, 

 yet being separate, tili the}' linall}' form one connnon spot. The 

 form also gradually alters becoming more cordate and this takes 

 }daee in exam])les from both Soekaranda and Liangagas and also 

 from Sinabong; in fact the examples from the latter may be as- 

 signed to E. 28 punclafa or to E. pylhu, as more or less weight 

 is a,iven to this or that character. 



Michel Edmond de Selys-Longchamps f. 



Wir erfüllen hiermit die traurige Pllieht, das Hinseheiden 

 unseres Ehrenmitgliedes Michel Edmond Baron de Selys-Long- 

 champs dem Vereine mitzutheilen. 



Geboren am 25. Mai 1813 in Paris, gestorben am 11. üe- 

 zember 1900 in Lüttieh. ward ihm ein L(fben reich an Jahren 

 zu theil, ^^'ie selten einem Menschen, der seine Zeit ernster 

 Arbeit widmet. 



Ein freuntlliches Geschick verlieh ihm die Güter des Lebens 

 und die Freuden innigen Famihenglückes. Und wenn ihm auch 

 seine Lebensgefährtin seit 31 Jahren fehlte, so blühte um ihn 



Stett. entomol. Zeit. 1901. 



