178 FAUNA SIMALURENSIS : 



outside, 1 5 mm. ; breadtli at the shoulders 9 mm. — Dark 

 bronze, variegated with brown on the upper side of 

 the head, mandibk's and prothorax and on the legs; the 

 elytra pale fulvous, narrowly infuscated along the suture, 

 the outer margin greenish black, the epipleurae and a 

 narrow marginal streak beyond the shoulders bronze co- 

 loured. The brown and the fulvous coloured parts have 

 a slight metallic green hue. The teeth and the outside of 

 the mandibles, and the scape of the antennae are black; 

 the palpi, the flagellum of the antennae and the tarsi dark 

 rufous brown. 



The brown colour occupies on the mandibles: a median 

 streak all along their length, less distinct however towards 

 the apex; on the head: the projected clypeus, and on the 

 vertex a wide V-shaped figure of which the angle touches 

 the front-margin of the prothorax ; on the pronotum : a 

 broad central longitudinal band ; on the legs : the upper 

 side of the femora. 



Very minute white scales are present on the base of 

 the mandibles, on the sides of the head, in the punctures 

 on the pronotum, on the scutellum, and on the base and 

 the bronze coloured lateral portion of the elytra, and 

 moreover on the entire under surface (the elytral epipleurae 

 included), but with the exception of the mandibles ; on the 

 legs similar scales are present on the bronze coloured por- 

 tions; the under surface of the tibiae is covered with a 

 short bright rufous pubescence, that on the under surface 

 of the tarsi is paler and longer. 



The mandibles are strongly and regularly curved down- 

 wards; on the outside they are faintly waved, slightly 

 curved, more strongly so towards the apex; their inner 

 margin armed at a short distance before the middle with 

 an acute triangular tooth, the space between this tooth 

 and the obliquely truncate ante-apical one shows some 

 irregular crenatures and that between the ante-apical tooth 

 and the tip of the mandible is provided with four rather 

 acutely pointed teeth. The outer upper margin of the 

 mandibles is raised from beyond the median tooth till 



Notes from the Leyclen Museum, Vol. XXXV. 



