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convexus, subtiliter sat crebre punctulatus, nitidus, tnargine 

 apicali anguste, lateral! et postico latins luteus, dorso plaga 

 magna, subovata, transversa maculisqne duabus parvis, 

 remotis, basalibus, subtriangularibns, nigris. Scutellum 

 nigrum, subla3ve. Elytra antice singulatim nonnihil rotim- 

 dato-producta, protborace vix latiora, quam lata paullo 

 longiora, callo supra-humerali parum elevato, obtuso ; 

 lateribus infra medium sensim nonnihil angustata, apice sin- 

 gulatim subrotundata, superne convexa, tenuiter punctato- 

 striata, interstitiis subtilissime crebre punctulatis ; lutea, 

 nitida, sutura vittaque disci sat lata, a basi apicem versus 

 sensim introrsum obliqua, pone basin extus nonnihil emar- 

 ginata, ante apicem abbreviata, nigra. Pygidium nigrum, 

 subopacum, crebre punctatum, tenuiter pubescens, utrinque 

 obsolete ferrugineo-marginatum. Corpus subtus nigrum, 

 crebre punctulatum, parce pubescens. Abdomen anguste 

 luteo- marginatum. Pedes punctulati ; femoribus nigris, 

 anticis ima basi, tibiis tarsisque lutescentibus." (Bobeman.) 



Genus Loxopleurus, SufFr. 

 Linn. Entom. xiii. p. 125. 



1. Loxopleurus rvfescens, Boh. 

 Eugenics Resa, Insekter, p. 161. 

 SufFr. Linn. Entom. xiii. p. 137. 

 " Oblongo-ovatus, convexus, rufo-testaceus, subopacus ; capita, 

 antennis extrorsum scutelloque nigris ; protborace convexo, 

 crebre punctulato, pone medium utrinque leviter impresso, 

 apice medio producto ; elytris evidentius crebre punctatis, 

 leviter costatis, margine basali tenuiter maculisque duabus 

 parvis disci pone medium, nigris." (Boheman.) 



Long. I lin. 

 Hab. Malacca ; also New Holland (Sidney). 



2. Loxopleurus Icelus, n. sp. (PI. III. fig. 7.) 



Elongatus, parallelus, dorso subcylindricus, fuivus, nitidus; 

 antennis extrorsum fuscis ; scutello nigro-piceo ; elytris 

 punctato-striatis, fascia lata basali et plagd magna subtri- 

 gonata ante apicem positd obscure caeruleis. 



Var. A, Elytris totis obscure caeruleis. 



Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. Kai Island. Var. A, Batchian. 



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