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densely punctured and hairy ; the thorax above glossy , 

 with a few large punctures on the disk and very delicately 

 wrinkled anteriorly and behind ; the lateral spines short and 

 blunt. The scutellum broadly truncate with rounded angles, 

 somewhat sericeous. The elytra strongly and closely punc- 

 tate-striate , the punctures, however, become obsolete on 

 the apical portion; the apices subtruncate with rounded 

 angles. The legs very sparingly, the abdomen densely but 

 delicately punctured. 



In the male the apical joint of the maxillary palpi is 

 securiform, the mesosternum armed, just within the inter- 

 mediate coxae , with two perpendicular pale coloured spines, 

 the trochanters of the hind legs prolonged backwards so 

 as to form an acute tooth , and the femora of the same 

 pair of legs provided along the hinder side of the apical 

 half with a wide and deep sharply edged furrow. 



Of this species the Ley den Museum received two males 

 and two females (about one of the latter see my observa- 

 tion in the second footnote) from Dr. B. Hagen , by whom 

 they were captured in the district of Serdang (North East 

 Sumatra). 



No species seem to have been described in this genus 

 besides those recorded in the Munich Catalogue. The genus 

 Psalanta (founded by Pascoe on his Noëmia chalybeata) 

 no doubt ought to be maintained. 



P h e m n e cordiger, uov. spec. 



The specimen which has served for the following des- 

 cription was, in 1883, sent back to our Museum by Mr. 

 Pascoe as a »nova species", and as since that time no 

 species have been recorded in the genus Phemone I ven- 

 ture to describe it under the above name. 



Length 12 mm. — Resembling Phemone frenata Pasc. 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. London. New Ser. Vol. V, pi. 2, fig. 5, cT) in 

 its white markings , but the general colour of the upper sur- 

 face is greyish black owing to a delicate pile , and is va- 



Notes from the Leyden ]Vluseuixi , Vol. XII. 



