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28 Mr. Joseph 8. Baly’s descriptions of 
European genus Spheroderma ; it is separated, however, 
very readily by the structure of the sternum. 
Euphitrea Wallacet. 
Subrotundata, valde convexa, fulva, nitida, mandibulis 
apice oculisque nigris, antennis corporis dimidio eequali- 
bus, thorace minute punctato, elytris confuse tenuiter 
punctatis. 
Var. A. Minor, picea. 
Long. 4—43 lin. 
Hab. —Sumatra, Java; var. A. Tringanee. 
Head short; epistome transversely trigonate, sinuate 
on either side; encarpz oblique, narrowly oblong, not 
contiguous ; front with its lower end more or less angu- 
late, sometimes obtuse, divided from the encarpze by a 
distinct groove; it is also sharply bounded on either side 
by a broad sulcation, which separates it from the eye; 
surface of front and vertex impunctate. Thorax more 
than twice as broad as long; base.bisinuate on either 
side; medial lobe broadly truncate; sides rounded, nearly 
straight and parallel behind the middle, converging in 
front, all the angles acute, the anterior produced slightly 
outwards; upper surface very minutely and somewhat 
remotely punctured. Scutellum semiovate, its apex acute. 
Llytra broader than the thorax, shoulders rounded; upper 
surface more distinctly but not more closely punctured 
than the thorax. 
Euphitrea micans. 
Subrotundata, convexa, fulva aut fulvo-picea, nitida, 
mandibulis apice oculisque obscure nigris ; thorace tenui- 
ter punctato, basi utrinque linea brevi perpendiculari im- 
presso, lateribus rotundatis, angulis posticis fere obsoletis, 
anticis acutis; elytris basi thorace multo latioribus, 
lateribus infra humeros ad apicem rotundato-angustatis ; 
supra xneo-micantibus, distincte punctatis. 
Long. 3 lin. 
Hab.—Java, Sumatra, Malacca. 
Head deeply immersed in the thorax; antenne scarcely 
half the length of the body, third joint distinctly longer 
than the second ; labrum impressed with a single row r of 
small fovez ; epistome transversely trigonate, its apex 
obtuse ; encarpe linear, remote; front raised, its anterior 
apex rounded, its sides shar ply defined, bounded on either 
