EUMICRUS EPOPSIMUS. 155 



parum octavo breviore. — Long. fere P/3 ram., lat. Vs mm. 



Hab. Batavia (Sijthofif). — A single specimeu. 



Eyes large , coarsely granulate , black , prominent. — 

 Wings hyaline, milkwhite. — Legs long, tibiae straight, 

 anterior femora hardly thickened, the posterior ones in 

 the middle club-shaped. 



Somewhat smaller and narrower than Ct. palpalis Reichb. , 

 of' a pale ferrugineous-yellow colour, the antennal club 

 longer in the cT, the abdominal segments but narrowly 

 edged with whitish hairs. Only the suture and antennal 

 club are a little darker coloured than the rest of the 

 insect. 



Scydinaenidae. 



15. E umi crus epopsimus, n. sp. 



Rufus , antennis pedibusque rufo-testaceis , disperse ochra- 

 ceo hirsutulus , parum convexus ; antennis 11-articulatis, 

 clava biarticulata ; capite subquadrato , angulis posticis ro- 

 tundatis ; thorace latitudine longiore , lateribus medio ro- 

 tundatis, antice angustatis; elytris obovatis, disperse punc- 

 tulatis , humeris distinctis; femoribus parum clavatis , tibiis 

 rectis, ad apicem vix dilatatis. — Long. 1 mm., lat. ^'5 mm. 



Hab. Batavia (de Gavere). — Rare. 



Joints 3 — 6 of the antennae hardly longer than broad, 

 7 and 8 not broader, small, quadrate, 9 similar but one 

 half thicker, 10 and 11 twice as thick, forming a stout 

 club of two fifths of the length of the antennae ; joint 9 

 although thicker than 8 cannot be regarded as belong- 

 ing to the club. — • The elytra are remotely punctured 

 and beset with very fine hairs ; on the head and thorax 

 a fine almost imperceptible punctuation is also present. — 

 The anterior coxae are nearly contiguous , the hind ones 

 distant. — The metasternum is almost as large as the 

 abdomen. 



Differs from Scydmaenus alatus Nietn., which belongs 

 to the genus Eumicrus, by its size and colour, by the 



]>f otes from the Leydeii Museum , Vol. IV", 



