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depression running out obliquely to the sides. Scutellum 

 dark. Elytra soft and liable to distortion after death , two 

 raised nervures before the humeral callus. Antennae , palpi , 

 legs , and body beneath black. 



Specimens from Sidjoendjoeng, Alahan pandjang and 

 Moeara Laboe (Sum. Exp.). 



Obs. This belongs to a section of Telephorus peculiar 

 to the East, which have narrow thoraces, formed like 

 those of Rhagonycha , the claws are simple in both sexes , 

 and the abdominal terminal plate formed as in Telephorus 

 proper, from which I cannot at present separate them. 

 They have however a very different facies. 



23. Telephorus sordidus, sp. n. 



Sordide niger , prothorace elytrisque rufo-brunneis , his 

 dimidio apicali plus minusve nigricantibus ; antennis basi 

 latis , articulo secundo perbrevi , tertio et sequentibus den- 

 tatis, prothorax baud longior quam latus. — Long. 10 — 11 

 millim. 



Very similar in colour to T. angusticollis , but differing 

 essentially in the structure of the antennae , in the nar- 

 rower smaller head , the shorter thorax which is more 

 rounded in front and in the elytra having only one short 

 and indistinct costa , a second nervure is visible before the 

 humerus. The scutellum also is yellow. 



Three specimens; they are from Soepajang , Moeara 

 Laboe and Bedar Alam (Sum. Exp.). 



24. P olemius ^)? depressies., sp. n. 



Niger , depressus baud nitidus ; capitis linea occipitali , 

 prothorace , elytrorumque dimidio basali purpureo-rufis , his 

 bicostatis. — Long. 12 millim. 9- 



1) Waterliouse, Ent. Mo. Mag. XIV (1877/78) p. 28; it is however not 

 identical with Leconte's genus Polewius (Froc. Philad. Acad. Nat. Sc. V 

 (1851) p. 338), and heing a distinct genus it ought to be described under a 

 new name. 



Notes from the J-ieydcn Museum, Vol. IV. 



