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Platypus candezei, Chap., J 1 ? (Lege ? <J ). Borneo, Malacca. 



' A single male specimen from Sarawak (Puak) and others 

 from Sarawak (Mt. Matang) . 



Platypus suffodienS) Samp. 



In the description of this species published in the Ann. & 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, vol. xii., Nov. 1913, the following 

 was accidentally omitted, and should be added at the 

 end of the description of the male : The abdominal segments 

 in both sexes are hairy, the fourth segment in the male 

 having a transverse row of stiff bristles on each side of the 

 centre, the other segments being furnished with transverse 

 rows of piliferous tubercles, the fifth segment being the 

 most strongly tuberculate at the apex and variolose on the 

 rest of the surface ; in the female, the hairs are more scanty 

 and the variolosity slighter. 



Genus Diapus, Chap. 

 Diapus pusillimus, Chap., $ ? (lege ? <?). New Guinea. 



Both sexes from Penang and a male from Sarawak (Mt. 

 Matang) . 



Diapus qui?iquespinatus, Chap., g ? (lege ? <?). Celebes, 

 Borneo, New Guinea, Morty, Java. 



The sexes were taken at Sarawak (Mt. Matang). 



Family Scolytidae. 



Genus Diamerus, Er. 



The following new species was taken by Mr. Bryant in 

 Sarawak (Mt. Merinjak) : — 



Diamerus merinjaki, sp. n. 



Black, slightly shining. Front elongate, concave, and 

 narrow, covered with palish hairs and closely punctured, 

 with a slight central depression ; eyes large, vertical and not 

 emarginate ; antennae inserted at the base of the eyes in 

 deep depressions; the funicular joints slightly hairy, the 

 antennal club elongate and broadened apically, the surface 

 solid with two lateral septa meeting diagonally in the centre, 

 the rest of the surface being hairy and porous. Prulhorax 

 transverse with rouuded sides, the frontal edge straight with 

 a broad margin, the posterior angles rounded, the whole 



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