870 A NATURALIST'S WAXDEFJNGS 



l)rown, tliG borders of tte scales darker; head -with the ordinavy syn> 

 nietrical dark markings; the inner border of the seventh longitudinal 

 series of scales, counted on each side froai the gastrostcges, darker, thus 

 forming t^o fine vertebral lines separated from each other by three rovrs 

 of scales; belly yellowish, each ventral shield with a brown spot near 

 the lateral edge," thcFe spots more or less confluent into a dark streak, 

 separated from the dorsal brown colour by a pure yellowish streak of 

 equal width; in one of the two specimens the ventrals become gradually 

 entirely brown towards the posterior part of the body, except the lateral 

 outer streak, which remains pure yellowish. Head and body 30i centim. ; 

 tail 58 millim. 



14. DendPwOphis ruxcTULATTJS (Gray). 



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ATP.ACHIA. 



16, Eana PAPUA, Less. 



.v.— On f/?e Coleopterous Iksects collected hyMn, H. 0. Forbes in tlie 



' Timor-knit Islands. By Chas. 0. Wateriiouse, F.Z.S, 



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- (From Proc. Zool. Soc. London, April 1884, p. 213, PI, XVI. 



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The number of species of Coleoptcra collected by Mr. Forbes in the 

 Timor-laut Islands is twenty-nine. Of these the following deserve 

 special notice on account of their geographical distribution :— 



1st, Diaphoetes rtigostis, a new genus and species of Staphylinid^e, which 

 Mr. David Sharpe informs me he possesses from Java. 



2nd. Cypliogastra angidicollis (from Larat), a species of Buprestidce, only 

 previously known from Banda. 



3rd, CypJwgastra splmdens (from Maru)^ a new si^ecies closely allied to 

 the preceding. 



4th. ArcJietyjyus rugosus^ a new species. This genus of Longicorns, of 



which there was only one species previously known, occurs in Waigiou^ 



Dorey, and Aru. , . 

 6th. Pelargoderus riigosus. Another new Longicorn closely allied to P. 



aroiiensis, - . ... 



6tb. KemopJias forlesiL A third new Longicom nearly allied to K grayi 

 from Amboina. 



CARABIDiE. 



Catascopus amoinus, Chaud. 



Two specimens which may perhaps be merely varieties of this species. 

 They are, however, darker in colour than any in the British-Museum 

 collection, being of an obscure olive-a^neous, shading into dark purple at 

 the sides of the elytra. 



Eah Maru« 



Staphvltxid^. 



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DxAPHCETES, "Waterhouse. 



General characters oi StapJiylmns,\mi with the smaller than is usual in 

 that genus. Labial palpi robust, with three visible joints; the first and 

 second short, the apical one very large and cup-shaped. The maxillas 



