300 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The relationship of this genus is with Amblynotus, Htg. ; that 

 genus has the antennae filiform in the female, and in the male 

 they have the third joint incised : the basal two abdominal seg- 

 ments are equal in length ; the thorax is only finely granulated, 

 the thorax is not rugosely punctured, the abdominal petiole is 

 smooth, and there is a distinct areolet. 



Paramblynotus pimctulatus, sp. nov. 



Black ; the mandibles, the four anterior knees, the tibiae except 

 behind, and the tarsi testaceous, the wings hyaline, the first cubital 

 and the radial cellule clouded, the nervures black ; the face, cheeks, 

 and the mesopleurae behind covered with white pubescence ; there is 

 a patch of depressed white pubescence on the base of the mesopleuree 

 above ; the apical segments of the abdomen are fringed with long 

 white hair ; legs densely covered with white pubescence ; face closely, 

 rugosely punctured, the front and vertex are more strongly punc- 

 tured ; the punctures deep and sharply margined. Except on the 

 mesopleurae the thorax is strongly, deeply, thimble-mark-like punc- 

 tured ; the mesopleurae smooth and shining, except behind ; there 

 are a few irregular punctures on the apex. Metapleurae densely 

 covered with white pubescence, rugosely punctured, and with an 

 oblique squarish area in the centre of the base. The eyes are sur- 

 rounded by a crenulated border. Antennal scape shining, the flagel- 

 lum bare, opaque. ? . Length, 5 mm. 



Kuching, Borneo (John Hewitt, B.A.). A stoutly built 

 species. 



The foveas at the base of the scutellum are large, square, smooth, 

 shining, roundly depressed and separated by a narrow but distinct 

 keel. The basal abscissa of the radius is straight, oblique, about one- 

 third of the length of the apical and distinctly thicker than it. The 

 apical slope of the metanotum is smooth above and below, and with 

 two rows of large foveae in the middle. 



Paramblynotus rujiceps, sp. nov. 



Black ; the head and pronotum red, the tegulae of a darker red ; 

 the tarsi and the four anterior tibiae rufo-testaceous, the posterior 

 tarsi darker than the others ; antennae as long as the body, the scape 

 rufous, the flagellum black ; wings hyaline, the nervures black, the 

 radial cellule clouded along the edges ; the nervures black. ^ . 

 Length, 3 mm, 



Kuching, Borneo (John Hewitt, B.A.). 



The sculpture of the head and thorax is pretty much as in 

 P. 2>wictulatus described above, but the apical slope of the metanotum 

 is very different ; it is surrounded by a stout keel, rounded above ; the 

 upper half of the area formed by it is opaque, and is bordered below 

 by a stout transverse keel ; the lower part is shining and has a few 

 longitudinal striae. The first segment of the abdomen is clearly sepa- 

 rated, and is stoutly, longitudinally striated. 



