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covered with moderately close, not very tine, digital * punctures; 

 ground-sculpture as on the head. Scutellum coarsely punctured. 

 Elytra narrower and one-third shorter than the thorax, coarsely 



and rugosely punctured; pubescence long and scanty, yellow. 

 Abdomen pitchy-red, posterior margins of the segments narrowly 

 brighter; sides setiferous; puncturation rather tine, not very close, 

 the terminal segments almost as closely punctured as the anterior 

 ones; pubescence rather long, yellow; ground-sculpture imbricate 

 on the first two segments; anterior femora much thickened. 



Hab. Bukit Timah, in a rotten log. A single $. 



18. Palaminus parvus, n. sp. 



(Shining, testaceous, puncturation large and superficial, abdomen 

 reddish-brown, thorax transverse, elytra longer than broad: an- 

 tennae, legs and palpi pale yellow. Length 275 mm. 



Head transverse, puncturation rather large, superficial, almost 

 umbilicate. Antennae slender, first two joints of equal length, 

 stouter than the succeeding. 3rd a little longer than 4th. 4th and 5th 

 of equal length, longer than broad, Oth to 9th subequal, oval, loth 

 stouter and longer than 9th, 11th obconical, broader than 10th. 

 Thorax broadest just behind anterior angles, about one-third broader 

 than long, gently rounded in front, narrowed in an almost straight 

 line to the rounded posterior angles, puncturation rather large, 

 sparing and superficial. Elytra more than one-third longer than 

 the thorax, distinctly longer than broad, much more closely punc- 

 tured than the fore -parts. Abdomen with first four segments 

 imbricate. 5th sparingly asperate, 6th laevigate, apex with a pair of 

 styliform processes. The whole insect clothed with long, coarse, 

 yellow hairs. 



Hab. Bukit Panjang, in debris. 



This species is somewhat similar in general appearance 

 and sculpture to P. insularis, Cam., from Jamaica, but the 

 thorax is less t ransverse and the elytra are shorter. 



Paederixt. 



19. Astenus orientalis, n. sp. 



Reddish-testaceous, rather shining, antennae and legs pale tes- 

 taceous. Length 4 mm. 



* By this term I mean an impression such as would be made by 

 pressure of the tip of the linger on a soft surface, such as putty or 

 olay. 



