240 VALGUS VETHII. 



punctured , covered laterally with greyish and in the middle 

 with black erect hairs ; the black hairs fulvous at the top 

 in some hghts. The posterior margin of the propygidium 

 bears laterally a pair of small tubes. 



The abdomen beneath covered with umbilicate punctures 

 and sprinkled over with elongate white sub-erect scales. 



A single specimen captured in July 1878 at Simauw. 



5. Valgus Vethii, sp. n. 



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

 Sub-shining ; of a dark chestnut color approaching black ; 

 the upper surface including the propygidium and pygidium 

 covered with yellow scales, intermixed with black ones on 

 the pronotum and on the inclined lateral portion of the 

 elytra; under surface sparingly covered with white scales. 



The head closely punctured and sparingly covered with 

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

 black hairs. The thorax convex , more long than broad at its 

 base , much narrowed towards its front margin ; the pos- 

 terior angles rounded ; the lateral margins raised and cre- 

 nulated. The anterior half of the pronotum with two 

 pair of longitudinal carinae, the inner pair sharp, parallel 

 and extending as far as the front margin , the outer pair very 

 short ; the basal half of the pronotum divided into two pair 

 of slight tubercles. The disc of the pronotum very closely 

 sculptured, covered with yellow scales; on the carinae and 

 tubercles the scales are black and erect. The sides of the 

 prosternum in front and at the posterior angles are covered 

 with white scales, but naked and covered with curved 

 scratches in the middle ; the meso- and metasternum co- 

 vered with umbilicate punctures and white scales , densely 

 covered towards the sides; the mesosternum has a fine im- 

 pressed longitudinal line across the middle. 



The anterior tibiae are armed externally with five teeth 

 of which the second is very minute and the third the 

 largest of all ; the intermediate and posterior tibiae with a 



Notes from tlie Leydeii MitiseuiTi. 



