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Sphenoraia quadripunctata, n. sp. 



Fulvous; the antennae (the basal three joints excepted), the sides of the 

 abdomen, the apex of the tibiae, and the tarsi, black ; thorax with a deep 

 transverse sulcus, elytra with four double rows of punctures, the interstices 

 finely punctured, each elytron with a small black spot below the base and 

 another near the apex. Var. — Elytra without spots. 



Hab. Timor. (My collection.) 



It is not without some doubt that I describe this species as 

 new, since it almost entirely agrees, except in colour, with 

 Haplosonyx javana, Wied., and also with S. sexplagiatus, Baly. 

 There are, however, eight specimens before me, which all differ 

 in the same way from the species named, and principally in the 

 sculpture of the thorax, which has a deep and sinuate sulcus 

 extending across the middle, but not to the sides ; in H. javana 

 and sexplagiatus the thorax has a deep transverse lateral 

 depression only, which does aot extend across the middle. In 

 all these species the second and third joints of the antennae are 

 very short, equal in the male, subequal in the female. S. sex- 

 plagiatus, Baly, is further distinguished by having convex or 

 costate elytral interstices at the sides, but agrees almost entirely 

 in coloration with H. javana, Wied. {4i-2)lagiatm, Baly). The 

 latter species inhabits Java ; while sexplagiatus is described 

 from Flores. It is, however, quite possible that all these forms 

 represent but local varieties of one species. 



DORYDEA JAVANENSE, n. Sp. 



Fulvous ; the head, antennae, thorax, and the legs flavous ; thorax bi- 

 foveolate ; elytra fulvous, finely punctured in indistinct rows, deeply depressed 

 below the base. 



(J . The seventh and eighth joints of the antennae much thickened. 



Head impunctate, flavous ; antennae extending nearly to the end of the 

 elytra, flavous, robust, the seventh and eighth joints much thickened, the 

 latter joint shorter and thicker than the preceding one, the terminal joints 

 very elongate and slender, with a short twelfth appendage ; thorax broader 

 than long, the sides slightly rounded at the middle, the surface impunctate, 

 flavous, with two foveas ; elytra with a deep depression below the base, red- 

 dish fvilvous, very finely and closely punctured in irregular rows, the punc- 

 tures slightly stronger within the depression, the interstices very obsoletely 

 longitudinally costate ; the legs flavous, the abdomen fulvous. 



Hah. Java. 



At first sight the present species resembles entirely the type 

 D. insignis, Baly, but an examination of the antennae proves 

 it to be quite distinct ; in D. insignis the eighth joint of the 

 antennae is very short and transverse, while the following two 

 joints are enormously swollen ; in D. javanense it is the seventh 

 and the eighth joints which are thickened (although to a less 

 extent than in the allied species), and the three terminal joints 

 are long and slender ; the punctuation of the elytra is finer 

 and less regularly arranged than in D. insignis, but there is 



SUPPLEMENT, ENTOM. — FEB. 1895. R 



