538 Mr. A. R. Wallace's Catalogue 



5. LoMAPTERA viRENS, Hombron and Jacquinot. 



Lomaptera virens, Homb. et Jacq. Voy. au Pol. Sud. Col. 



pi. 9. f. 6. 



? L. valida, Gory and Perch. Mon. Get. p. 308, pi. 60. 



f. 2. 



Getonia plana, Schonh. Syn. Ins. I. iii. A pp. p. 57. 



Hah. — Amboyna, Ceram (Coll. Wall., B.M.) . 



Very abundant, flying- about the ground in newly 

 cleared forest. Gory and Percheron's figure is quite un- 

 recognizable and can hardly represent this species. 



6. Lomaptera D'Urvillii, Burraeister. 



Lomaptera D'Ur villa, Burm. Handb. iii. p. 315 j Homb. 

 et Jacq. Voy. Pol. Sud. pi. 9, f. 7. 

 Hah. — ^New Guinea (Coll. Parry, B. M.), ? Amboyna 

 (H. & J.). 



Thorax smooth, elytra punctate-striate near the base, 

 transversely wrinkled towards the apex. 



Messrs. Hombron and Jacquinot say this was the most 

 common species of Lomaptera at Amboyna. I cannot 

 help thinking that this remark should apply to L. virens, 

 which I found very abundant at Amboyna, but I saw 

 nothing of L. D'UrvilUi. In the British Museum Cata- 

 logue New Guinea is given as the locality which seems 

 more probable. 



7. Lomaptera Latreillii, Gory & Percheron. 



Lomaptera Latreille, Gory & Perch. Mon. Cet. p. 307, 

 pi. 60, f. 1 ; Thoms. Mus. Scient. p. 34. 



Rather larger than L. oUvacea, head and thorax more 

 punctate, elytra covered with fine short transverse striae 

 except at the base. Coxse and femora of fore legs 

 clothed with rufous hairs. Anterior tibiee spined in both 

 sexes as in Ij. oUvacea. 



Hah. — Kaioa Islands, Ternate (Coll. Wall., B. M.) . 



Abundant at palm sap in these islands, and probably 

 also in Makian and Tidore, which lie between them. 

 Mr. Thomson says he has determined this to be the true 

 L. Latreillii, by an examination of the type specimen ; 



