72 HAPLOSONYX SEXPLAGIATUS. 



NOTE V. 

 ON HAPLOSONYX SEXPLAGIATUS, BALY ') 



BY 



MARTIN JACOBY. 



A specimen from Sumbawa (v. Lansberge) which I have 

 before me, agrees with the type of the above named 

 species described from Flores. Another specimen from Java 

 in my collection varies in the flavous abdomen spotted with 

 black at the sides, in having the thorax two-spotted, and 

 in the posterior oblong patch at the elytra which extends 

 upwards to the middle. 



This species ought to be placed in Sphenoraia according 

 to the present definition of the genus (Baly, Cistula 1879), 

 as it possesses all the structural characters and is devoid 

 of the basal elytral depressions as seen in Haplosonyx. 



I have no doubt that the present species is identical 

 with S. javana Wiedem., whose description is very accurate 

 and agrees in nearly every respect with Mr. Baly's species. 

 It is no doubt however, subject to variation in colour. 



London, October 30th, 1883. 



1) Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. Bth ser. Vol. IV (1879). p. 115. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum , "Vol. VI. 



