212 ÏIYDROVATUS ATRICOLOR. 



uarrowly black before and behind tlie median band. Punc- 

 tuation of the elytra strong and irregular, consisting of 

 unequal punctures. Punctuation of the under surface of 

 the body coarse and regular. 



Captured in April 1877 at Solok. 



5. Hydrovatus atricolor ^ sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovatus , brevis , crassus , postice attenuatus , ad 

 apicem breviter et anguste acuminatus, convexus; infra 

 nigro-ferrugineus , ^punctatus , pedibus antennisque ferrugi- 

 neis ; supra tenuissime reticulatus. Capite fusco-ferrugineo , 

 leviter punctulato , piano , post clypeum utrinque foveolato ; 

 prothorace nigro-ferrugineo , in medio late et confusissime 

 obseurato , fortiter punctato ; elytris nigris , late et confuse 

 ad laterae ferrugineis , post humeros maximum latitudinem 

 praebentibus , ad apicem breviter et anguste acuminatis, 

 levins punctatis et duabus striis , quarum externa vix visi- 

 bili, notatis. — Long. S','^ mm. 



Color ferrugineous black , lighter on the head and on 

 the sides of the elytra and prothorax; the upper surface 

 of the body covered all over by a very fine and very re- 

 gular reticulation ; the punctuation is very fine on the 

 head , very strong on the prothorax , and intermediate on the 

 elytra , of which only the internal stria is distinctly visible , 

 the external one being quite obsolete and not continuous; 

 foveolae of the head small and well defined. 



Captured in April 1877 at Solok. 



C. Hydrovatus consanguineus , sp. u. 



Ovatus, convexus, sat brevis, postice late et breviter 

 acuminatus; infra rufo-ferrugineus , valde punctatus , supra 

 tenuissime reticulatus et hand crebre punctatus , capite im- 



Notes iroiii the Leyden Museum, Vol. U. 



