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METOPODONTUS KANNEGIETERI. 



Sides of the thorax roun- Sides of the thorax with 

 ded, with a rather indistinct a strong angular tooth be- 

 notch behind the middle; hind the middle; posterior 

 posterior angles hardly mar- angles obtuse but well marked, 

 ked, being so broadly rounded 

 as to make the lateral margin 

 pass insensibly into the ba- 

 sal one. 



The sculpture of both species is also the same, except that 

 the head of Kannegieteri is still more delicately punctured. 



A single specimen of median development has been cap- 

 tured , in April 1890, by Mr. J. Z. Kannegieter in the 

 mountains near lake Ranau in the interior of the Palem- 

 bang Residency (Sumatra) at an elevation of + 3000'. 



NB. In the same locality Mr. Kannegieter has had the 

 good luck to secure a male specimen of the exceedingly 

 rare M. zebra Oliv. , a species of which the habitat was 

 unknown to Olivier ') and has remained unknown for 

 almost a century, no specimens having apparently reached 

 Europe besides the unlocalized female described by Major 

 Parry. More recently I also got a female specimen, obtained 

 by Mr. Fruhstorfer when bringing together entomological 

 collections in the Tengger mountains (East Java). 



Beukenstein-Museum, July 1895. 



1) Snellen van VoUenhoven has already mentioned that Olivier's type- 

 specimen from the ancient Dutch collection of Mr. Raye van Breukelerwaerdt 

 is now preserved in the Leyden Museum, and although Olivier did not men- 

 tion its habitat it occurred to be labelled «Pays des Birmans" when it came 

 in the Museum collection. Although the possibility of its being also an inhabi- 

 tant of Burmah is not excluded, I consider it much more probable that this 

 specimen found his way to Holland from the Dutch colonies. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. X.V11. 



