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Hob. Aru islands (von Rosenberg). — One specimen. 



Antennae much shorter than in Coptengis splendidus Chap., 

 their third joint especially shorter, and those which fol- 

 low to the eighth not longer than wide , nodiform , club 

 elongate but with the basal joint (the 9th) not much 

 longer than the tenth ; all the joints slightly pubescent ; 

 gular portion of the head red , quite smooth but each side 

 beneath behind the eyes thickly punctured. The thorax is 

 almost square , of a fine deep red , almost sanguineous , 

 its front angles are acute and a little prominent and 

 depressed; the disk very convex and shining, punctured 

 allover , but with points of two sizes : the smaller ones very 

 minute, the larger sparse and irregular, but still very 

 small; the base gently bisinuate. Prosternum quite evenly 

 rounded in front, red, transversely wrinkled, front edge 

 truncate , narrowly black , metasternum and abdomen finely 

 punctured. Elytra quite smooth, but with lines of piceous 

 dots indicating the obsolete striae. Legs entirely black. 



Of this very curious insect there is only a single example 

 of doubtful sex. From the appearance of the protruding 

 sixth ventral and dorsal segments I should think it is a 

 female. In both form and colour it is quite unlike anything 

 else I have seen in this family. 



Ep iscaphula andamanensis^ n. sp. 



Elongata , parum convexa , nigra , nitescens ; capite pro- 

 thoraceque crebrius sat profunde punctatis , elytris substria- 

 tis , seriebus punctis confusis baud bene discretis , interstitiis 

 creberrime minute punctatis , fasciis duabus interruptis , 

 una basali utrinque dentata, altera subapicali versus su- 

 turam constricta rufis. — Long. 7 — 9 millim. 



Hah. Andaman islands (Dr. de Léséleuc). — One example. 

 (Coll. Gorham 5 ex.). 



This species resembles E. interrupta Lacord. and there- 

 fore to some extent E. difficilis Gorh. (Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1883, p. 82), a species also from the Andaman 



Notes froin tlie Leyden Musetim, Vol. X. 



