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earliest described is E. Schönherri Guér. [E. Chevrolatii 

 follows on the next page]; E. E. Cuvieri^ Bennettii 

 and Cyphoides are very distinct. 



Piezonotus diver sus ^ sp. n. 



P. ovatus , niger, squamulis albis disjunctim vestitus; 

 elytris planatis (cf) vel leviter convexis (9), dorso supra 

 apicem ad suturam productis ; antennis pedibusque , apice 

 elytrorum excepto , solummodo setosis. — Long. 4 lin. 



Ovate, black, covered with small round white, slightly 

 separated scales; antennae and legs only, except on the 

 apical margin of the elytra , setose ; rostrum not longer 

 than the head , and having a short tubercle between the 

 scrobes; scape of the antennae attaining to the middle of 

 the thorax , joints of the funicle subequal from the second , 

 the first two somewhat longer; prothorax slightly longer 

 than broad , moderately rounded at the sides , rather clo- 

 sely punctured , each puncture having a scale at the base, 

 the intervals with smaller dispersed scales ; elytra subseriate 

 punctate , flat above in the male , slightly convex in the 

 female, each terminating posteriorly above the apex in a 

 conical tubercle, approximating to its fellow at the suture 

 in the former sex , but more rounded and diverging in the 

 female; body beneath with small scattered scales. 



Two species of this genus I have not seeu , but 

 they difier, inter alia^ from the above in their striated 

 elytra. F. suturalis Gyll. , the type of the genus, 

 black with a pure white suture , has also striated ely- 

 tra; Lacordaire doubts its being from Java, as stated 

 by Schönherr ; my specimens are from Banda , Amboyna, 

 and Macassar. 



Lixus HitsemcB, sp. n. 



L. nigrescens, pilis albidis adspersis, nonnullis supra 

 maculatim condensatis ; rostro breviusculo ; prothorace co- 

 Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. V. 



