AEGUS CAPITATUS. 231 



the collection of Mr. Neervoort van de Poll and coming 

 from Malacca. 



Black above , dark reddish brown beneath ; subshining. 

 The mandibles glossy, covered with punctures which be- 

 come finer and finer towards the tip and on the inner 

 basal portion (basal tooth); they are as long as or slightly 

 longer than the head , strongly and regularly curved , and 

 provided internally, a little before the base and on a level 

 below that of the surface of the mandible, with a conical 

 tooth. Moreover in the two largest of my specimens a trace 

 of the tooth is present which proceeds from the upper sur- 

 face at some distance from the base. 



The head is densely covered with large punctures which 

 bear short erect fulvous hairs and are partially confluent 

 especially towards the fore margin and the eyes. The fore 

 margin between the mandibles broadly and angularly emar- 

 ginate, the emargination terminating in a produced point 

 at each end. The anterior lateral angles are rounded off, the 

 ocular cantbus is entire , and the sides are convex and slightly 

 sinuate. From the anterior lateral angles a curved smoother 

 carina runs to the inner orbit. 



The prothorax somewhat broader than the head and 

 with parallel sides , or (as in my smallest specimen) in front 

 as wide as the head but somewhat broader at the base; 

 it is densely and rather equally covered with large and 

 deep punctures which are confluent along the margins and 

 bear erect short fulvous hairs; the middle of the disc is 

 shallowly impressed and provided with some larger and 

 partially confluent punctures; the anterior angles are pro- 

 minent and more or less narrowly rounded off, the poste- 

 rior ones subangular, not emarginate. The scutellum has 

 a few large punctures. 



Each elytron shows four deeply impressed striae of con- 

 fluent punctures, forming in connection with the suture 

 five glossy interstices which are alternately more elevated 

 and four of which disappear before the end; the interstices 

 are sparsely provided with very fine punctures, the 2 nd 



Notes from the Leyden Museum , Vol. XI. 



