248 COLOBORHOMBUS AURICOMUS. 



The abdomen dark steel blue, the apical margin of the 

 pygidium and of the last ventral segment ochreous and 

 faintly notched in the middle. 



The described female specimen originates from the Kediri 

 Residency (S. E. Java), and has been presented to the 

 Leyden Museum by Dr. H. J. Veth. 



Since the publication of the 9th volume of the Munich 

 Catalogue (1872) two other new species of this genus 

 have been described, viz. 



Coloborhombus fulvus H. W. Bates, Cist. Ent. II. p. 



395, from Sylhet (probably the C. 



velutinus Saund. in litt.) , and 



» fasciatipennis C. 0. Waterh. , Trans. Ent. 



Soc. Lond. 1885. p. 369; pi. 10, fig. 



12 , from Borneo. 



Thermonoius Pasteuri, sp. n. cf and 9- 



In the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for 

 November 1888 (p. 399) Mr. C. J. Gahan of the British 

 Museum has based the genus Thermonotus [closely allied 

 to Cereopsius Pascoe ^)] upon a Lamiid from N. India and 

 Penang, which is called by him Thermonotus nigripes. 



No doubt Cereopsius apicalis from East Java , described 

 by myself on p. 5 of the 3rd volume (1881) of the Notes 

 from the Leyden Museum , will prove to be congeneric 

 with Gahan 's insect , and now I am fortunate enough to 

 give the description of a third species which originates 

 from the island of Nias , west of Sumatra. I dedicate this 

 new species to Mr. J. D. Pasteur , who lately enriched 

 the Entomological Collection of the Leyden Museum with 

 a beautiful series of Nias Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. 



1) The genus Cereopsius is often ascribed to Thomson, an error which, 1 think, 

 originates from Thomson's Syst. Ceramb. p. 84. If we look, however, at p. 133 

 of the same work, we see under Corrigenda: „CEREOPSIUS p. 84, n° 289. 

 Au lieu de : Thomson, etc Lisez \ Pascoe: Journ. Ent. I. (1862). p. 344." 



Notes from the Leyden IVIuseutn, Vol. X!II. 



