48 MARTIN JACOBY 



38. Setoaetlie vai-itvljilis, n. sp. 



Ovate, obscure piceous below; head and thorax fulvous; an- 

 tennae black, the apical and 3 basal joints testaceous; elytra 

 minutely punctured, black, a large ovate spot extending from 

 below the base to nearly the apex , yellowish white. 



Var. a. tlie white elytral spot extending to the apex. 

 Yar. b. the white elytral spot interrupted below the mid- 

 dle by a transverse black band. 



Length 1 '/.^ Hne. 



Head deeply grooved between the eyes, impunctate, antennae 

 more than half the length of the body, slender, third and fourth 

 joints equal , one half longer than the second , the 3 basal joints 

 fulvous, the apical one, testaceous; thorax nearly three times 

 as broad as long, short, the sides rounded and with a llattened 

 margin, surface entirely impunctate, fulvous; scutellum piceous; 

 elytra very finely and closely punctured, black, each elytron 

 with a large wiiitish ovate patch occupying nearly the entire 

 surface from a little below the base to the apex; this colour is 

 sometimes interrupted by the narrow black suture which widens 

 near the apex to a smaller or greater extent and in one spe- 

 cimen (var. b) assumes the shape of a transverse black band , 

 dividing the white portion into 2 spots of which the larger one 

 is placed near the middle , the smaller one at the apex. 



Tibiae deeply channelled, black, tarsi and the underside ob- 

 scure piceous. 



Sumatra, Mt. Singalang, July (0. Beccari). 



The present species , although closely allied to S. lusca Fabr. 

 and S. dpiislulata Baly, differs from both in its smaller size, 

 the colour of the antennae and that of the legs wich are the 

 same in all the specimens before me. 



39. Selbaetlxe lixsea, Fabr. 



I cannot but refer the numerous specimens obtained at Su- 

 matra, to the species of Fabricius; there are however two dif- 



