204 C0EL0PTERUS. 



Cryptoisemus. 



Muls. Op. in. p. 140. (typ. Montrouzieri). 



Thorax margined at the base, epipleura? with a fovea on 

 their posterior portion ; presternum produced so as to cover up 

 the mentuni ; elytral epipleurae narrow, hardly foveolate, abdo- 

 minal plates complete, G ventral segments, claws bifid ; anterior 

 femora received into a groove in the mesopectus. 



Cryptoisemus Montrouzieri. 



Cryptolcemus Montrouzieri, Muls. Op. III. p. 140 (T.). 



Ovate, convex, clothed with a gray pubescence, punctuation 

 uniform, not very strong ; black ; head, thorax, venter, elytra at 

 the apex, anterior legs and all the tarsi reddish-yellow ; thorax 

 sparingly punctured, shining, very finely margined at the base. 

 L. 2^ lin. Queensland, Moreton Bay. 



Cryptoisemus Wallacii, sp. n. 



Closely resembling C. Mo>ttrovzieri, but more convex, thorax 

 with the posterior angles well marked, base very finely margined, 

 truncate before the scutellum, with a small black patch (the 

 anterior edge indefinite) on the base in the middle, the punctua- 

 tion is very fine and rather obsolete ; the elytra have a similar 

 apical patch, but the punctuation is unequal, the coarse punctures 

 being large and deep, widely and irregularly scattered, but with 

 traces of a linear arrangement near the suture. L. 2} lin. Gilolo 

 (Wallace). 



Cryptoisemus afimis, sp. n. 



Exactly like C. Wallacii, but with the elytral punctuation 

 tolerably close, unequal, the coarse punctures not very conspicuous, 

 and confused with the others. The extent of colour varies a 

 little. L. 2} lin. 



a. Thorax with a black spot at the base hardly visible, apex 

 of elytra broadly ochreous. Batchian (Wallace). 



/3. Thorax with a broad black spot, covering ^ the base, but 

 not extending forwards ; elytra narrowly edged with ochreous 

 at the apex. Dorey (Wallace). 



Cryptoisemus subviolaceus, sp. n. 



Rounded, subconvex, clothed with a fine very short gray 

 pubescence, finely and closely punctulate, with a few larger 

 punctures intermixed j black, elytra with a violet tinge; head, 

 thorax with the anterior angles and front (narrowly), apex of 

 elytra, tibia? and tarsi testaceous ; metastemum deeply and roughly 

 punctate ; presternum truncate at the apex. L. 11 lin. Macassar 

 (Wallace). 



Coelopterus. 

 Mule. Op, ii. p. 89 {typ. Balinus), 



