-182 OXYRRHYNCHUS BREVIPENNIS. 



aud puuctured, by a transverse impression, the centre of 

 which shows a punctiform fovea. 



The thorax is nearly globose, a little longer than wide 

 in the middle, distinctly contracted anteriorly, and covered 

 with large circular punctures, the bottom of which is in- 

 crusted and provided in the centre with a deeply impres- 

 sed puncture; on the disk the punctures are somewhat more 

 remote than on the sides and leave an indistinct longitu- 

 dinal line along the middle. The basal margin is hidden 

 in my specimen by that of the elytra. The scutellum is 

 heart-shaped and convex. 



The elytra are strongly convex , a little wider at the 

 middle than at the base (which is bisinuate) and regularly 

 attenuated in a slightly curved line towards the apex; the 

 shoulders are not conspicuous and the apical tubercles absent. 

 Each elytron shows ten longitudinal rows of very regu- 

 larly placed more or less quadrate pits which are filled 

 with a dirty pale yellow tomentum and provided with a 

 deep central puncture ; the 4th to Stli rows do not extend 

 quite to the base , being separated from it by a slightly 

 thickened smooth portion; the 10th or external row is but 

 short. The interstices are very regular and all of equal 

 width , the 4th and Gth , 3rd and 7th , and 2nd and 8th 

 are united posteriorly. Along the suture and on the apical 

 portion of the lateral margins a few small punctures are 

 present. 



The undersurface and the elongate legs are shallowly 

 ])unctured and covered with a grayish crust. 



Described from a single female specimen which has been 

 sent over from Kotta Zuydewijn near Solok (Sumatra) by 

 Mr. J. H. Schagen van Leeuwen. 



2. OxijrrJtynchus brevipennis , n. sp. cf and 9' 



This species is without doubt closely allied to 0. philip- 

 phiensis Waterli. from the Philippine-islands with the des- 

 cription of which I am as yet only acquainted. It is 



Notes from the Xjeyilen IMuseum, Vol. W. 



