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and very shining at the sides, except the posterior margin 

 which is reddish brown ; in some individuals the metallic 

 tint is wanting and the thorax is dark brown or brown- 

 red ; the elytra have the apex rufous or brown-red, above 

 they are pitchy brown, more or less cupreous, rarely bluish , 

 sometimes brown-red or chestnut ferruginous ; in the spe- 

 cimens of the last color the suture and the lateral margins 

 are darker and behind the middle near the suture a duskish 

 spot is visible. In the individuals here described only 

 the 2nd interstice has a yellow line. Body beneath brown- 

 red , more or less infuscate and cupreous , rarely with a 

 metallic bluish color. Coxae, basal portion of femora , tibiae 

 and tarsi red-brown ; the club of the thighs darker and 

 sometimes slightly metallic. 



Hah. Western Java. — Several specimens , males and fema- 

 les , collected by Mr. J. D. Pasteur (Leyden Museum) ; Borneo 

 (Genoa Museum). 



Sectio 3*1. Prothorax distincte canaliculatus vel 

 sulcatus, crebre puuctatus. 



*12. M. nupta, nov. spec. 



cf. Capite , protJwrace , antennis , pedihusque castaneo-rujis 

 vel ruhro-hrunneis ; elytris nig ris , apice {sutura exceptd) et 

 fascia media a hasi usque ad, dedivitatem apicalem ferrugineis. 

 Caput quadratum, hasi incisum et laterihus hitubercidatum , 

 supra canaliculatum ac punctatum ; rostrum hasi trisulcatum , 

 laterihus excavatum , post antennas canaliculatum ; antennes 

 articulis apicalibus longioribus et majorihus ; prothorax hrevis, 

 crehre rugoso-punctatus , in dorso canaliculatus , canali longi- 

 tudinali integro; elytra pro/unde sulcato-punctata , apici 

 emarginata, angulis externis rotundatis. — Q. Capite , rostro, 

 antennis, pedihusque ruhro-hrunneis; elytris nigris in singulo 

 fascia dorsali a hasi usque ad medium , macula pone medium 

 et apice {sutura excepta) ferrugineis ; pra^terea differt a mare 

 capite et rostro hasi breviorihus , parte apicali longiore , fli- 

 formi; antennarum articido apicali minus elongate. 



Long. 7 — 11 ram.; lat. prothor. l^., — 2 mm. 



Notos from tlae Loyden JMuseum, Vol. XIV. 



