BY P. NAGEL. 881 



deeply punctured on J of the breadth of the elytra. The 

 underside and the legs pitchy-black, most of the parts punc- 

 tured. Mentum excavated and punctured. Metasternuni 

 depressed. The anterior tibiae are armed with 5—6 strongly 

 developed teeth, the intermediate-ones have a little spine, the 

 posterior are unarmed. All tibiae bear stripes of grayish 

 bristles. 



1 cf, the type, in the Sarawak Museum's collection. 



Xenostomtjs Boileau. 

 1. X. KKiESCHEi nov. spec. (Fig. 6.) 



O* ignotus. 



9 Supra piceus, subferrugineo velutinus, baud nitidus. 

 Capite transverso, dense punctato, punctis subferrugineo 

 velutinis, ante oculos et in disco bigibboso, angulis rotundatis, 

 margine antico recto emarginato, angulis truncatis. Mandi- 

 bulis capitis fere longitudine, nitidis, punctatis et supra 

 canaliculatis, unidentatis. Mento punctato, valde excavato, 

 margine antico piloso. Cantho angusto, angulis posticis nee 

 rectangulariter truncatis. Prothorace transverso, capite 

 latiore, lateribus fere parallelis, postice perpaulo divergentibus, 

 dense punctato, punctis subferrugineo velutinis, angulis anticis 

 posticisque rotundatis, medio in disco levissime striato. 

 Elytris prothorace latioribus, angulis anticis acutis, posticis 

 valde rotundatis, fornicatis, longitudinaliter 6 — striatis, in- 

 terstitiis dense punctatis, punctis omnibus dense subferrugineo 

 velutinis. Subtus punctatus. Femoribus punctatis, punctis 

 femorum abdominisque velutinis. Tibiis striato-pilosis, anticis 

 3—4 dentatis, 4 posticis unispinosis. Pedibus pilosis. 



Long. Corp. 17,5 mm ; latit. elytr 7 mm ; 



Hab. in Monte Murud, Borneo Septentrionalis (Sarawak.) 



Xen. punctipenni Parry (ritseniae Boil.) 1. statura graci- 

 liora, corpore magis fornicato ; 2. angulis anticis capitis 

 rotundatis ; 3. capite prothoraceque ac elytris tenuiter punc- 

 tatis ; 4. punctis omnibus dense subferrugineo velutinis maxime 

 differt. 



I will compare Xen. krieschei with Xen. pimctipennis Parry 

 { = ritsemae Boil., Bull. Soc. Ent. France 1898, p. 265), a most 

 common species in Borneo and Sumatra. The new species is 



