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various parts of the insect, more particularly the head, the margins 

 and a nearly round spot at each posterior angle of the prothorax, 

 various scattered and irregular markings on the elytra, the portion 

 of the abdominal segments adjoining the elytra, and the entire 

 anal plate, are covered with a close coating of grey or cinereous 

 scales. 



The country of this insect is unknown to me. Mr. Walker 

 presented it to the cabinet of the Entomological Club. 



Ceto. stillata. Nigra ; parce punctata ; vestimento Jlavent^ 

 tecta : prothoracis marginibtis, maculisque sex ; scutelli apice ; 

 elytrorum maculis sexdecem ; abdominisque lateribus, albidu. 

 (Corp. long. .5; lat. .275.) 



Black, covered with a close coating of yellow scales : elytra with 

 several series of somewhat crescent-shaped impressions: the 

 margins of the prothorax, and six spots arranged in two longi- 

 tudinal lines on its disk, the apex of the scutellum, and eight 

 spots on each elytron, are of a dirty white colour. 

 Inhabits the East Indies. Presented by Mr. Walker to the 



cabinet of the Entomological Club. 



Ceto. fictilis. Brunnea ; vestimento sordido passim tecta : elytris 

 lineis 5 te7iuibus glaberrimis elevatis ; marginibus sutttralibus 

 postice sulcatis; apice productis, subacideatis. (Corp. long. 

 .6 unc. ; lat. .35 unc.) 



Brown, with occasional patches of a darker hue approaching to black : 

 spots, composed of a close coating of brown scales, are scattered 

 over the prothorax and elytra, without much apparent regularity : 

 on each elytron are five very slender shining longitudinal lines ; a 

 pair near the suture ; a second pair at a short distance, and a 

 single one further on the disk : the posterior portion of the sutural 

 margin of each elytron is distinctly grooved, and terminates in a 

 produced point. 



Inhabits Java. Presented by Mr. Bennett to the cabinet of 

 the Entomological Club. 



Genus. — Trichius. 



Trie. Deltoides. Niger: prothoracis margine, deltaque disci^ 

 niveis : elytra, fiavo^ ferrugineo nigroque signata : podex albiis^ 

 margine plagaqne mediana nigris. (Corp. long. .5 unc. ; 

 lat. .3 unc.) 

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