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tenuiter jiavis , elytris macula magna discoidali et apice sae- 

 pissime conjunctim aurantiacis , abdominis margine epipleuris 

 pedihusque rufis. — Long. 21/4. — cf , 9« 



Mas. capite jiavo^ elytris m,acula discoidali et apice late 

 conjunctim rufis. 



Femina ? capite iiigro , macula discoidali tantum rufo. 



Var. Sexui incertae: — capite maculaque discoidali riifis , 

 angulo antico prothoracis etiam flavescente. 



Punctuation just visible, elytra rising suddenly behind 

 the scutellum, almost gibbous. There are only four speci- 

 mens with a black head ; probably all the examples with only 

 a discal spot on the elytra are females. The thorax has 

 the base distinctly bisinuate, the apex minutely truncate 

 in front of, and. adjoining the scutellum. 



Hab. Soeroelangoen and Mesauw (Scient. Sum. Exp.). — 

 Fifteen specimens. 



3. Scymnus hrunneus , nov. spec. 



Ovatus , hrunneus , sat fortiter parcius punctatus , hreviter 

 subpilosus , nitidus; thoracis disco ^ elytris versus suturam 

 pedihusque saturate piceis. — Long. I'/g — 2 mm. 



It is sufiScient to point out the similarity between this 

 insect and the Europsean Scymnus suturalis Thunb. {= Sc. 

 discoideus 111., Gyll., Muls. and Waterh.) to ensure its re- 

 cognition. The colour is a little different, the suture not 

 being ever distinctly dark , but in paler specimens the elytra 

 are simply more deeply pitchy there and at the middle of 

 the sides than in the middles. The punctuation is so pre- 

 cisely similar that it would not suffice to distinguish 

 them. 



Crotch (Cocc. Rev. p. 273) has proposed a genus Ani- 

 soscymnus for Sc. rufipes Fabr. which he says will be well 

 represented in the Malay Archipelago. But he has not 

 described any species. I do not see that the punctuation 

 of any of the three species here described is » unequal" either 



Notes from the Leyden M^useixra, Vol. VI. 



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