4o6 SUBFAAnLY STENINAE 



Ijegs slender, feraoia at the base slightly incrassate ; first 

 joint of the shorter hind tarsi nearly as long as the following 

 three together, the third slightly dilated, the fourth provided 

 with lateral long and narrow appendices ; all except the 

 fourth slightly infnscate towards the end. 



The whole upper surface is smooth and shining, not 

 shagreened : Length of body 5.2 mm. 1 single 9 from 

 Baram Station, Sarawak, leg. Dr. E. Mjoherg. 



TypuR in coll. Benick. 



This new species differs from the Japanese Stenus fiavi- 

 (Ivlus Sh., by the large maculre of the elytra being entirely 

 absent in the former species, and further by the stronger 

 punctures of the whole body and longer and slender 

 antennae. 



Tt gives me great pleasure to name this beautiful species 

 after the discoverer. Dr. E. Mjoherg. Curator of the Sarawak 

 Museum. 



Stenus setosus n. sp. (PI. 14, fig. 5 — ^.) 



Allied to the group of St. hispinuft Motsch. 



Lead-coloured, shininsf antennae, palpi and less yellow: 

 only the seventh and eighth joints of antennae dark, of the 

 leijs onlv the knees black, the whole body densely covered 

 with silverv-fT7"ev hairs : the basal segment covered by 

 thick, sti'aight. backwardlv directed silver^' hairs; punctures 

 moderately strong and dense. 



TTead fairlv broad, broader than prothorax. of the same 

 width as elvtra. hardlv impressed and pro\aded with shallow 

 furrows ; median parts indistinctlv elevated ; behind the 

 antennae some smooth surfaces, otherwise the punctures are 

 fairlv dense, moderatelv strong and deep; anterior parts of 

 head t\ith Ion? white hairs' antennae slender, the two 

 basal joints incrassate. of the same lencrth, the 3rd twice as 

 long as the 2nd and more slender, the 4th hardly shorter 

 than the ^rd. the followino" joints up to the 8th graduaTlv 

 becomincf shorter : the three club-shaped apical joints of 

 the same leu'Tth as the Ath, nearly twice as lono- as broad ; 

 palpi long, slender, last JQirit' club-shaped, curved outwards 

 at the top, 



