EPISCAPHA XANTHO-PUSTULATA. 47 



NOTE XII. 



A NEW SPECIES OF THE EROTYLID 

 GENUS EPISCAPHA. 



DESCRIBED BY 



the Rev. H. S. GORHAM. 



E p is c a p h a x an t h o-p u s t u I a t a , u. sp. 



Statura E. cruciatce Lac. sirailis , nigropicea, capite tho- 

 raceque crebre punctatis, nitidiusculis, hoc margine laterali 

 parum rejflexo, angulis anticis acutis , elytris maculis duabus 

 magiiis flavis ana basali, altera subapicali sublunata prope 

 suturam angustata; anteunis brevibus, articulis 2 — 8 moni- 

 liformibus subaequalibus. — Long. 10 millim. 



Hab. Sumatra: Boenga mas ') and Soekadana (J. C. van 

 Hasselt). 



Oblong, nearly equal in breadth before and behind , pitchy- 

 black, pubescent, very thickly and finely , almost obsoletely 

 punctured , the head more distinctly so than the thorax. The 

 antennae are about as long as the head and thorax, the 

 second to eighth joints scarcely longer than wide, the 

 club as in E. cricciata. The elytra are very thickly and 

 very finely punctured , each puncture giving rise to a hair, 

 the four yellow spots are placed much as in E. cruciata, 

 but the hinder pair are more transverse , and a little ex- 

 cavated on the apical side, so that the apex itself is more 

 widely black. The basal spot is actually on the base in 

 the middle (as in E. cruciata) but the entire margin from 



1) This is the Episcap/ia n°. 3 of „Midden-Sumatra. Coleoptera. p. 185." 

 Notes froai tho Leyden JMaseum , Vol. XII. 



