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broad sericeous and opaque marginal band of a steelblue 

 color and by the aid of the magnifying glass they show 

 fine inconspicuous parallel purplish lines and sometimes ex- 

 ternally an indistinct narrow ferrugineous border; at the 

 apical three fourths they are slightly dentate-sinuate , more 

 strongly in the female , obliquely truncated posteriorly and 

 internally, not rounded; they show at the apex a small 

 truncation in the opposite direction , which forms with the 

 former truncation a very obtuse and blunt angle; the su- 

 tural angle is very obtuse and blunt. The uppersurface 

 of the body is very delicately reticulated all over and co- 

 vered with a fine and very distant punctuation. In the 

 male the anterior femur shows inwardly a broad and strong 

 tooth and the tibia is much attenuated and curved inwards 

 at the base. 

 Hab.Gorontalo : North Celebes (vonRosenberg). — Both sexes. 



5. Orectochilus validus, sp. n. 



Long. IO1/2 — 11^/2 mm. — Ovatus, latus, valde convexus; 

 supra niger, nitidus; infi'a nigro-piceus, pedibus, epipleuris 

 et ano ferrugineis; pronoto ad latera fortiter punctato et 

 breviter tomentoso ; elytris ad latera minus late et postea 

 latins usque ad extremani suturam punctato-tomentosis , ad 

 apicem recte truncatis, angulo externo subacuto promi- 

 nulo , interno recto, cf tibiis anticis latis , angulo externo 

 obtuso , rotundato. 



Oval , broad and very convex , of a beautiful glossy black 

 on the uppersurface, pitchy black on the undersurface; 

 the legs, the epipleurae and the apex of the abdomen of 

 a ferrugineous reddish color. The tomentous border of the 

 elytra, which is a little narrower than that of the prono- 

 tum at the base, widens out before the middle in the cfi 

 behind the middle in the 9 , and attains the suture a little 

 before the apex. The truncation is straight: the outer 

 angle is rather acute and projecting and the inner angle 

 is a right one. The anterior legs, especially in the cT, 



Notes from the Ueyden Miuseum, Vol. IV. 



