and descriptions of ttew sfecies in the British Museum. 487 



Malay Peninsula: Singapore (C. J. Baunders). 



In size and general appearance this species and P. 

 horneensis Arrow are almost identical. The coloration is 

 the same, except that the legs and club of the antenna are 

 red and the anterior elytral patch extends to the outer 

 margin and reaches the shoulder. The pronotum and elytra 

 are much more distinctly punctured, the eyes are smaller 

 and farther apart, the base of the pronotum is rectilinear, 

 the sides more strongly excavated within the lateral 

 margins, the basal foveae very deep and the basal groove 

 has a round impression in the middle. The flattened outer 

 margins of the elytra are a little wider than in the allied 

 form. 



The type of P. horneensis is not, as I supposed, a male. 

 Mr. Saunders has taken a male specimen in Singapore 

 which I believe to be that of this species and which has the 

 ninth joint of the antenna much swollen and the hind 

 tibia dilated posteriorly. The latter forms the best-marked 

 distinction between the two species. 



Beccaria 12-punctata, sp. n. 



Nigra, parum nitida, pronoti angulis anticis elytiiqiie singuli 

 punctis rotundatis 12 nilis, quarura una basali, duo niedianis, et 

 duo subapicalibus, antennis flavis, clava nigra ; fere hemisphaerica , 

 convexa, pronoto haud latissimo, minute et crebre punctate, lateri- 

 bus arcuatis, angulis omnibus fere rectis, basi trisinuato, anguste 

 marginato, foveis basalibus minutis ; scutello triangulari, fere laevi ; 

 elytris fortiter aequaliter sat crebre punctatis ; metasterni medio 

 fortiter haud crebre punctate; antennarum articulis basalibus 

 parvis, 4r~l brevissimis, tribus ultimis sat magnis. 



Long 5-5 mm. ; lat, 4-5 mm. 



Borneo {Prof. A. C. Haddon). 



The unique type specimen has been surrendered by tlie 

 Cambridge University Museum to the British Museum. 



It is a species easily distinguished from all others by the 

 close puncturation of the upper surface and the more 

 numerous red spots with which it is decorated. It most 

 resembles B. philippinica Attgw, but the elytra have ten 

 round spots instead of seven. It is a little larger, the 

 pronotum is relatively narrower and the antennae are less 

 slender, the club larger and almost equal in length to the 

 footstalk, of which joints four to seven are extremely short. 



