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DRONLEOLUS INOPFNATUS. 



NOTE X. 



ON A NEW SPECIES AND A NEW VARIETY OF THE 



FAMILY EUCNEMIDAE COLLECTED DURING THE 



RECENT SCIENTIFIC SUMATRA-EXPEDITION. 



BY 



VICOMTE H. DE BONVOULOIR. 



Dromceolus inopinatus , sp. n. 



Supra niger , pube subtili grisea leviter vestitus ; carina 

 interoculari medio late sejuncta ; clypeo basi mediocriter 

 coarctato; anteuuis totis ferrugineis, articulo secun do quarto 

 breviore , tertio quarto longiore ; pronoto latitudiue breviore, 

 antice attenuato , basi noncarinato ; elytris a basi ad apicem 

 attenuatis, leviter striatis, interstitiis sat dense sub-rugulose 

 punctatis ; pedibus tarsisque ferrugineis. — Long. 4^8 mm. 



Body oblong, moderately convex above, rather conside- 

 rably and gradually narrowing from the base of the elytra 

 towards their apex ; pitch-black all over , thinly covered 

 above with a fine and short greyish pubescence, which 

 is rather more conspicuous and more yellowish at the base 

 of the pronotum and elytra. Head not very closely punc- 

 tured, not rugose. The interocular ridge widely separated 

 at the base of the epistome. The forehead not carinated 

 longitudinally. The epistome but little narrowed at its 

 base, almost as broad as the space between it and the 

 eye. The antennae entirely ferrugineous , the first joint 

 longer than the two following together, the second con- 

 Notes from the Leyden. Miusevini, Vol. II. 



