HEXAGONIA. 247 



NOTE LUL 



NEW SPECIES OE HEXAGONIA (CARABIDAE) 

 EROM THE MALAY-ISLANDS. 



DESCRIBED BY 



J. R. H. NEERVOORT van de POLL. 



Besides H. Bowringi Schaum , from Poeloe Penang and 

 of which I possess a specimen labelled » Sumatra", no spe- 

 cies of Hexagonia have been recorded from the Indo-Ma- 

 layan Region. I have now to add three more species and 

 two of them have proved to be new to science , whilst one 

 seems to be identic with H. Kirbyi Schm. Göb. from con- 

 tinental India (exact locality somewhat doubtful). All these 

 species have been taken in Java, but one of the new spe- 

 cies {nigrita m.) also occurs in Sumatra. Mr. Th. Lucassen sent 

 over to the Leyden Museum two specimens of H. Kirbyi 

 Schm. Göb., together with three examples of a new species 

 (Lucassenii m.) captured in two different localities, but all 

 under similar circumstances, hidden in the sheathes for- 

 med by dead leaves of the sugar-cane. 



Hexagonia nigrita, v. d. Poll. 



Nitida, nigra, antennis , mandibulis , palpis pedibusque 

 piceis. Caput inter antennas late bi-impressum , pone oculos 

 fossula profunda , in vertice linea curvata fossulas postocu- 

 lares conjungente. ProtJiorax capite haud latior , subcordifor- 

 mis, angulis anticis obtuse rotundatis, lateribus sat rotunda- 

 tis ante basin nonnihil emarginatis, margine basali recta, 

 angulis posticis quadrangularibus ; in disco linea lata prof unde 

 impressus, juxta margines laterales carinula instructus et 

 ante basin utrinque impressione lata subrugosa. Elytra pro- 

 thorace duplo latiora, humeris valde rotundatis, lateribus 

 fere rectis , parallelis, ad apicem conjunctim late rotundata; 

 subtiliter punctato-striata , intervallis planis, levibus , inter- 

 vals quinto singulo , intermllo tertio tribus punctis magnis , 

 Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XI. 



