136 EURYBATUS INEXPECTATUS. 



curved in a sense directed towards the tip of the antennae; 

 the spine on the apex of the 3rd joint is the longest and 

 curved only at the tip; the scutelluni is narrowed behind 

 and almost inconspicuously notched at the tip. — Length 

 from the tip of the mandibles to the end of the elytra 

 29 mm., that of the antennae 45 mm. 



Hah. Mt. Kawi , Pasoeroean Residency : East Java , at 

 an elevation of 2500 — 4000 feet above the level of the 

 sea. — A single male specimen (W. C. Thieme). 



Noëmia ap icicornis , nov. spec. 



Allied to and strongly resembling Noëmia fiavicornisVa,%c^) 

 from which it may, however, be distinguished at a glance 

 by the differently coloured antennae, these being pale brown 

 with the apical third white and the extreme tip black. 



Length QV-, — H mra- — Of a deep blue, more or less 

 tinted with green especially on the elytra , the legs darker ; 

 the parts of the mouth (the labrum and front margin of 

 the clypeus included) pale brown , the apical joint of the 

 maxillary palpi and the tip of the mandibles dark brown ; 

 the seven basal joints of the antennae pale brown , the 

 sixth and seventh joint darker towards the end , the four 

 apical joints white ^) , the tip of the eleventh joint blackish ; 

 the trochanters and base of femora pale yelloAvish, the 

 end of the tibiae and the tarsi pitchy. The whole insect 

 sparingly beset with long erect pale coloured hairs, the 

 under surface sericeous with the exception of the head, 

 front portion of the prothorax and the middle portion of 

 the metasternum. 



The head smooth and shining, provided with a few 

 deeply impressed punctures , the clypeus , however, opaque. 



1) Trans. Ent. Soc. London. New ser. vol. IV, p. Ill; pi. 22, lig, 8, and 

 3rd ser. vol. Ill, p. 657. 



2) One of my two female specimens has the hasal half of the eighth joint 

 dark brown. In this specimen the antennae appear moreover to be somewhat 

 thicker and shorter, and the whole insect is somewhat more robust than the 

 other female. 1 failed, however, to find other distinctive characteristics. 



Notes Irom the Leyden JMuseuixi, Vol. XII. 



