176 AULACOCHILUS STOLZII. 
larger punctures at the base on both sides of the middle 
lobe. The broadly heartshaped scutellum is impunctate. 
The elytra narrow towards the apex; their greatest breadth 
is just beyond the basal fulvous spot and then they are 
almost imperceptibly constricted. The punctuation is fine 
and dense but indistinct, which gives a leathery appearance 
to the surface; those punctures, however, which form the 
striae are clearly visible. The lateral margins are rather 
broadly depressed, the outer edge of the rim is finely raised. 
The prosternum and the elytral epipleurae are impunc- 
tate, the abdomen and the middle of the metasternum finely 
and densely punctured. The legs are impunctate; the apex 
of the tibiae and the tarsi are covered with a pale fulvous pile. 
ABERRATION. Very rarely the basal fulvous elytral spot 
is united with the central spot by a narrow fulvous streak. 
Hab. Solok: Highlands of Padang (West-Sumatra). — 
Several specimens of this new species have been presented 
to the Leyden Museum by Mr. P. O. Stolz. 
Leyden Museum, May 1912. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol, XXXIV. 
