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tured ; moreover there are a few deep punctures along the 

 anterior margin; at the sides the punctures are large but 

 shallow and somewhat confluent; in front of the hasal 

 margin there are several deeply impressed curved short 

 lines. Scutellum triangular without distinct punctures , its 

 apex very acute. Elytra a little wider at the base than 

 the base of the thorax, rounded and prominent at the 

 shoulders , very convex at about a fifth of their length , 

 the sides nearly parallel as far as half their length , although 

 slightly sinuated behind the shoulders, then regularly 

 attenuated towards the apex; the apex of each rounded 

 and very finely serrated. The elytra are slightly rugose and 

 irregularly covered with elongate punctures placed in a lon- 

 gitudinal direction. The under surface of the abdomen shows 

 some very fine longitudinal lines composed by series of short 

 curved lines ; the mesosternum some transverse curved lines , 

 and the bright metallic central portion of the prosternum 

 some large and deep punctures. 



This species is without doubt nearly allied to Endelus 

 cupido H. Deyr. of Singapoor (Malacca) i) but may be at 

 once distinguished from it, not only by its different color, 

 but also by the deeply impressed curved lines in front of 

 the basal margin of the prothorax, by the rugosity and the 

 serrated apex of the elytra, etc, 



A single specimen was captured in March 1877 during 

 the recent Scientific Expedition to Central Sumatra at 

 Soepajang by Mr. Joh. F. Snelleman, to whom I dedicate 

 this pretty species. 



2. Traehys denudata, sp. n. 



Length 3 mm., breadth at the shoulders 1,5 mm. — Head 

 and antennae , pronotum and scutellum , under surface of 

 the body and the legs bronzy black; the elytra dark 



1) Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. tome VIII (1864) p. 230, 

 n". 304. 



Notes from the Ley den Museum. 



