NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS ICHTHYURUS. 75 



NOTE XX. 



ON FIVE NEW SPECIES OE THE GENUS 

 ICHTHYURUS, WESTW. 



BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Of the above mentioned genus of Malacoderm Coleoptera, 

 founded in 1848 by Westwood in his Cabinet of Oriental 

 Entomology^ twelve species have hitherto been described , all 

 natives of the Old World and distributed as follow : Sierra Leone 

 fWest Africa): one ^); Moulmein (East-Indies): two ^); 

 Ceylon: two 3); Pulo Penang: one *); Java: one s) ; Bor- 

 neo: one **); Luzon (Philippines): three ') and Gayndah 

 (Australia) : one *). Of the species described in this note 

 two are collected at Java, two at Sumatra and one in 

 Abyssinia. 



1) I. discoidalis , Westw. {Cab. of Orient. Untom. p. 84 note, and Thes, 

 Entom. Oxon. p. 102, pi. II, fig. 2). 



2) /. costalis, Westw. and I. basalis, Westw. {Cab. of Orient. Entom. p, 

 83, pi. 41, fig. 3 and p. 84 note). 



3) /. bicaudatus , Fairm. and /. i7iermis, Fairm. {Stetti?i. Entom. Zeitutiff. 

 Jalirg. XXVIII, S. 116). 



4) /. Doriae, Gestro {Annali del Mus. Civ. di Storia Nat. di Genova. vol. 

 IV, p. 359). 



5) I. lateralis, Westw. {Cab. of Orient. Entom. p. 83, pi. 41, fig. 2). 



6) /. forficuloides , Fairm. {Stettin. Entom. Zeitung. Jahrg. XXVIII, S. 114). 



7) /. Semperi, Fairm., /. Bohrnii, Yaiirm. ani 1 . scripticollis, 'Fa.irm. {Stettin. 

 Entom. Zeitung. Jahrg. XXVIII, S. 113—115). 



8) 1. depressicollis , W. Macleay {Transact, of the Entom. Soc. of New South 

 Wales, vol, II, prt. IV (1872) p. 264). 



N'otes from the Leyden MCuseum. 



