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reflexed, not much expanded about, four series of large punctures 

 are to be seen on the disc of the elytra at the base within the 

 humeral spot , but they are not regular and terminate beyond 

 the middle, externally and towards the apex are scattered punc- 

 tures, here and there in irregular rows. The metasternum is 

 distinctly and remotely punctulate. The spots on the elytra 

 are rich blood red. Legs pitchy , tips of the tibiae and tarsi 

 fulvous. 

 Two specimens taken at Ramoi in 1875 by Doct. 0. Beccari. 



9. IMeiliclxius expetitus. 



Ferruginea', anteìinis nigris, articidis quatuor hasalibus ferrugineis, 

 elytris laete violaceis^ parce for titer pimctatis, callo humerali, limbo 

 laterali et epipleuris apiceque ferrugineis. Long. 4 Yg tnillim. 



Hah. Sumatra, Ajer Mantcior (Beccari). 



Head thorax body and legs rich ferrugineous red , antennae , 

 about as long as the elytra, gradually thickened but without a 

 distinct club, their third joint not much longer than the fourth, 

 the eighth quadrate, the three terminal ones longer and stouter 

 than those proceeding, but yet not forming a distinct club. 

 Thorax strongly transverse, narrowed towards the front, and 

 with prominent and acute front angles, rather finely margined 

 except in the centre of the base, the two basal sulci represented 

 by triangular impressions, no transverse sulcus, the surface spa- 

 ringly impressed with rather large scattered punctures. Elytra 

 much wider than the thorax, short-ovate, globosely convex, di- 

 stinctly and, thickly but not very closely punctured, smoother 

 towards their apex , and the callus which is a little tumid is 

 smooth. Legs stoutish , tarsi short , the second joint strongly 

 bilobed. Scutellum red. Suture without stria and not raised. 



A single specimen taken in August 1878 by Doct. 0. Beccari. 



The species of Meilichius hitherto described are only two, 

 M. nigricollis Gerst. from Penang and Borneo, a very rare insect 

 in collections, of which I have only seen one example, which is 

 in the Hope Museum at Oxford, and M. ferrugineus, Frivaldsky, 



