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rounded, without any sinuation before base, angles rounded, 

 front ones a little prominent, hind ones obtuse ; a fine median 

 line reaching extremities, transverse impressions obsolete, 

 basal fovese shallow, surface opaque, finely and densely 

 granulate and pubescent, the pubescence inconspicuous. 



Elytra (6*5 mm. long) oval, narrower and more pointed at 

 apex in $ , rather flat on disk, opaque, border fine, rounded 

 at shoulder, reflexed along sides, hardly sinuate before apex, 

 punctulate-striate, intervals flat, finely but not very closely 

 punctate, and inconspicuously pubescent ; the testaceous spot, 

 which is divided by the suture (red at this point), small, 

 more or less rectangular, covering three intervals on each side 

 of the suture, the colour extending a little nearer apex on 

 interval 1 ; scutellum shagreened and indistinctly punctate. 



Underside highly iridescent, shiny, sparsely punctate, and 

 pubescent, prosternal process not bordered, metepisterna not 

 much longer than wide; tarsi pubescent on upper surface. 



Closely resembling C. guttula, Chaud., but larger, the 

 eommon spot a little larger, more angular, and further from 

 apex ; head wider, less closely rugose, prothorax more coarsely 

 granulate, stria? of elytra deeper and more evidently punctate. 



Assam : Naga Hills, Assam Valley, Manipur (all Uoherty), 

 U,6??. 



British Museum. 



II. —The Myth of the Ship-holder: a Postscript. By E. W. 

 Gudger, American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York City. 



In the issue of this Journal for October 1918 I published a 

 paper of some length on this myth *. While that paper was 

 going through the press I chanced upon some additional data 

 bearing on this subject and its explanation, and it has 

 seemed worth while to present it here in abbreviated form 

 in the hope that it may prove of interest to readers of the 

 first paper. It is all the more interesting because three of 

 the writers quoted approximated the true explanation. 



The first of these old writers is Jerome Cardan, mathe- 

 matician, naturalist, and several other things beside. In 



* Gudger, E. W., " The Myth of the Ship-holder : Studies in Eeheneis 

 or Remora. — I." Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1918, ser. 9, vol. ii. pp. 271- 

 307, 3 pis. with 9 figs., 1 text-fig. 



Ami. c& May. N. Hist. Ser. 9. Vol. iv. 2 



