4 PLATYRHOPALUS MACROPHYLLUS. 



jection. Moreover the angles behind the eyes are less pro- 

 jecting in our new species and the thorax is less convex 

 and more angular in front, i.e. not so gradually rounded 

 and narrowed towards the top as in P. vexillifer. P. ma- 

 cropliyllus is also close to P. aplustrifer Westw. and as 

 regards the more depressed antennal club even nearer to 

 that species, however, aplustrifer is considerably smaller, 

 of a more brownish colour and its club is blunt at the 

 top and dentiform enlarged before the base. 



Raffray's Group I *) of the genus Platyrhopalus , now 

 consists of three species , which have the following geo- 

 graphical range, viz.: PL aplustrifer Westw. from conti- 

 nental India (I have only one specimen with a more pre- 

 cise locality » Bombay", Westwood and Raffray record 

 » Bengal"); PL vexillifer Westw. from Penang and probably 

 to be detected also in Sumatra and Borneo; PL macro- 

 phyllus V. d. Poll from Java and very likely peculiar to 

 that island. 



1) I am Dot aware for what reasons Raffray, in his general Catalogue of 

 the Paussidae, enumerates the three groups of Platijrhopalus , formerly esta- 

 hlished by himself, in this order: 3. 1. 2,, which is fairly in contradiction 

 with his opinion that «le premier groupe fait le passage avec les Lebioderus , 

 qui precedent, et ce dernier avec les Paussus, qui suivent." 



I^otes from tlie Xueyden Museum, Vol. XII. 



