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XVI. Description of anew genus of Clerideous Coleoptera, 
from the Malayan Archipelago. By J.O. Wxst- 
woop, M.A., F.L.S., &c. 
[Read 7th June, 1875. 
ALLOCHOTES. ~ 
Genus novum e familia Cleridarum, forma omnino 
insolita, semiglobosa, coccinelliforme, glaberrimum, seto- 
sum. Caput pronum, supra vix visibile, margine antico 
emarginato. Oculi magni, antice late emarginati, Labrum 
parvum, transversum, vix porrectum, antice setosum. Man- 
dibulz validee, elongato-trigonz, apice forte bidentate, intus 
lobo elongato membranaceo setoso ante medium instructee. 
Maxille parvee, lobis duobus elongatis simplicibus apice 
setoso, basi transverso corneo ; palpi maxillares articulo 
ultimo elongato-securiformi. Mentum parvum, transver- 
sum, ligula elongata parallela; labium profunde emargi- 
natum, setosum. Palpi labiales articulo ultimo elongato- 
securiformi. Antenne vix thoracis longitudine, 11-arti- 
culate, articulo Imo oblongo, 2ndo minuto, 3tio longiori 
egracili, 4to ad 10um sensim paullo latioribus, 1]mo majori 
ovali. Pronotum semicirculare, lateribus rotundatis. Pro- 
sternum brevissimum in medio inter coxas anticas haud 
prominens. Mesosternum brevissimum, simplex, inter 
coxas medias triangulum minutum antice efficiens. Meta- 
sternum transversum, simplex. Abdomen subconicum, e 
seomentis sex formatum. Pedes simplices, parum elongati ; 
tarsis omnibus 4-articulatis, articulis tribus basalibus subtus 
in lobum membranaceum bifidum productis. LElytra fere 
hemispherica, glaberrima, setigera. 
Pl. [X. fig. la, head and antenna; 1, mandible; 1c, 
maxilla; 1d, mentum, labium and labial palpi; le, pro- 
thorax seen from below; 1/, meso- and meta-sterna and 
abdomen; lg, tarsus sideways ; 1A, tarsus from above. 
Obs.—E Chorecine advena Pascoe, Journ. of Entomol. 
i, 49, pl. 2, fig. 2, differt antennis apice incrassatis, 
thoracis forma latiori, elytrisque glaberrimis. 
Species 1. Allochotes bicolor. (Pl. IX. fig. 1.) 
Aurantiaco-fulvus, pronoto fulvo-setoso, elytris nigro- 
viridibus punctatis, nigro-setosis ; corpore infra cum pedi- 
bus et antennis fulvis. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1875.—PART Il. (NOV.) 
