LOMAPTERA MUCTEROPHALLOIDES. 187 



The Leyden Museum received a single 9 from Salwatty 

 (Dr. Berusteiu) aud it was for a long time considered to 

 be the L. inermis Wall.; it has however no great affinity 

 to that species. The Leyden Museum possess also from the 

 same locality a 9 of the true L. inermis Wall., which was 

 compared by Mr. Ritsema with the type, now in Mr. R. 

 Oberthiir's possession , and that specimen induces me to point 

 out that Mr. Wallace rightly has compared the inermis with 

 L. papiia Guer., whilst Dr. Mohnike's supposition that it might 

 be a variety of M. xantJiopus Boisd., is quite erroneous. 

 Inermis and papua have exactly the same shape of pygidium 

 viz. : the cone is strongly compressed laterally so as to 

 form an obtuse longitudinal ridge , and both the species 

 have also the same peculiar sculpture of the thorax , the 

 sides being largely and thickly covered with very fine trans- 

 verse striae. The fulvous markings at the apex of the elytra 

 of inermis are very indistinct and cannot be compared with 

 those of xanthopus. Wallace correctly describes this part 

 to be » rufous, shading into the green of the body." 



5. Milder phallus laevipennis, v. d. Poll. 



Q. Nitidissimus , supra purpureo-cupreus , pars infera femo- 

 raque viridia , tihiis tarsisque fulvis. Caput tenuiter puncta- 

 tum , densius apicem versus. Protliorax subconvexus , lateribus 

 rotundatis , angulis anticis prominentibus , acutis , angulis pos- 

 ticis nonnihil introrsum directis ; ad latera punctis sparsis 

 tenuibus instruetus. — Elytra apicem versus fortiter angus- 

 tata , apice rotundato , ad suturam valde incisa , sutura spi- 

 nosa ; parte basali marginorum fortius transverse plicata , 

 parte apicali strigosa , iii disco obsoletissime punctata , fere 

 laeva. Pygidium valde strigosum. Subtus fulvo-pubescens , 

 lateribus sterni tenuiter strigosis punctatisque ; tibiae anticae 

 unidentatae. — Long. 27 mm., lat. 14 mm. 



Uppersurface bright shining purple-coppery , undersurface 

 and thighs dark green, the tibiae, the tarsi and the tips 

 of the lobes of the clypeus fulvous. 



Notes from the Leyden ÜMiiseiim , "Vol. "VIII. 



