species of Ipidse and Platypodida.'. i?49 



oeiiig- edged with numerous small tubercles (two rather 

 larger ones near the apex) and long pale hairs ; the sutural 

 striaj have a single row of tubercles extending to the apex, of 

 which one or two near the apex are larger than the others. 



Judging from Dr. Hagedorn's description, this species is 

 somewhat siuiilar to his X. Jisheri, but differs in size, colour, 

 arrangement of the tubercles, want of the suture between 

 the pronotum and prosteruum, &c. 



Although here treated as a separate species from X. stphenos, 

 I am of opinion that when more material comes to hand 

 this insect will prove to be the female of the former. 



Crossotarsus fragmentus , sp. u. 



Bruuneus, fronte plana, profunde punctata, medio fossulata ; pro- 

 thorace quadrato, parce irregulaiiter punctato, sulco brevi baud 

 profundo ; elytris lineato-pimctatis, lineis ad basin impressis, 

 interstitiis jjlanis teuuiter liiieato-puuctatis, apice declivi, convcxo, 

 striate, interstitiis elevatis, seriato-tuberculatis et pilosis, margine 

 extern© utroque postice profunde emarginato, apice triplice 

 emarginato. 



Long. 5'5 mm. 



Hab. Singapore. 



Shiny brown, front flat, deeply punctured and sparsely 

 hairy, with a small indentation in the centre and a dark 

 median line at the top ; prothorax with graduated punctua- 

 tion, becoming coarser laterally, median line slight and 

 scarcely reaching the base, Avith no groups of punctures ; 

 elytra with faintly punctured lines, the interstices shiny to 

 the declivity and then contracted and bearing series of pili- 

 feroas tubercles, the base of the third interstice having a 

 small group of punctures. 



This handsome insect belongs to the Crossotarsi siib- 

 depressi, and seems nearly allied to C. terminatus, Chap,, 

 and C. venustus ^ as described bv Mr. Blandford (Ann. & 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xv., April 1895). The elytral 

 sculpture is somewhat complex, as will be seen from the 

 figure (fig. 1, p. 250) of the apical half of the elytra, there being 

 a deep lateral emargination on each elytron posteriorly and a 

 triple emargination common to both elytra at the extremity ; 

 the interstices 1-3 cease a short distance before the apex, 

 where the surface becomes smooth and shiny. 



Crossotarsus fractus, sp. n. 



C. fragmento similis, sed differt magnitndine et apicis elytrorum 



excisione minus profunda. 

 Long. 4"3 mm. 



