238 VALGUS PILOSUS. 



spined at the suture. The elytra laterally covered with 

 irregular puuctures , transversely confluent towards and at 

 the apical tubercle. The pygidium transversely aciculated. 

 The apical half of the anterior tibiae armed with three 

 lateral stout teeth; the intermediate and posterior tibiae 

 unarmed ; the inner apical spur of the posterior tibiae 

 eniarginated and slightly enlarged at the apex. The pro- 

 sternum and the front surface of the mesosternum aciculated ; 

 the mesosternum with two lateral groups of small circular 

 impressions in front of the hind margin , and with a lon- 

 gitudinal fine black line across the middle; the sternal 

 process short and broad, broadly rounded in front. The 

 abdomen at the sides sparingly covered with irregular punc- 

 tures ; the second , third , fourth , and fifth segment moreover 

 with a row of punctures behind the middle ; the apical 

 segment slightly and distantly aciculated ; its apical margin 

 regularly rounded. 



A single female of this species , which I have dedicated 

 to Mr. A. L. van Hasselt, chief of the Expedition, was 

 captured at Singkarah the first April 1877. 



4. Valgus pil o sus, sp. n. '). 



Length 6,5 mm., breadth at the shoulders 3,5 mm. — 

 Sub-shining; of a dark reddish brown color, with a lon- 

 gitudinal broad streak over the suture, the middle of the 

 propygidium and base of the pygidium blackish; upper 

 surface covered with erect hairs which are mouse-grey or 

 black in different lights; body beneath sparingly covered 

 with ovate and very narrow whitish scales. 



The head closely punctured, sparingly covered with 

 sub-erect scales, the ocular cauthus with a tuft of erect 

 black hairs. 



The thorax convex, a little longer than broad at its 



1) Perhaps this species may prove to belong to the genus Oreoderus Burni. 

 {Haudbuch dcr Entomologie. Bd. III. S. 726, i.). 



Notes frona the Leyden Bluseum. 



