150 Mr. H. W, Bates en Geodephagons 



utrinque discoidali fusca (hand nigra) inrlistincte delimitata, 

 vitta testacea, suturali, post medium dilatata, versus suturam late 

 striatis, striis punctulatis sed pauUo et vage impressis, punctis 

 3 dorsalibus setiferis vix perspicuis, tertio sat longe ab apico 

 (sed haud valde distant! sicut in P. nigrif route) apud iiiterstitium 

 tertium, secundo vero in stria secunda. 

 Long. 31-4 millim. 



Dikoja. 



Very similar to P.ruficolUs in its general form, red-testaceous 

 colour, and black head, but decidedly distinct in the longer 

 and posteriorly sinuatecl thorax, in the lighter brown and less 

 definite central portion of the elytra, and other characters. 



Perigona fimicola. 



Trechnsfimicola, ^YoWiiiiow, Ins. Maderens. p. Go: id. Col. Ilesperid. 

 p. 27 (Trechichus). 



Colombo. 



According to three specimens I have examined of this species, 

 taken at the Cape-Verd Islands and named by Wollaston, 

 the apex of the elytra is broadly black, the elytra have a silky 

 subopalescent gloss, three (and not two as stated by Wollas- 

 ton's original description) conspicuous dorsal setiferous punc- 

 tures, the third very distant from the apex, and a faint dusky 

 cloud or large oblong spot common to both elytra extending 

 from the base to three fourths of their length. Mr. Lewis's 

 specimens agree exactly in all these points and in struc- 

 tural characters with Wollaston's insect. The species seems 

 to me also scarcely different from the North-American 

 P. mgriceps, Dej. I should include also Spathinus nigriceps^ 

 Nietn., which is a Perigona or very nearly allied to it, if the 

 author had not stated that the labrum is deeply emarginated, 

 which it is not in P. fimicola. 



Perigona Beccarii. 

 Perigona Beccarii, Putzeys, Ann. Mu.". Civ. Geneva, vii. p. 732 ? 



Dikoya ; abundant in refuse. 



The insect referred to this species differs from P. fimicola 

 only in colours, the large dorsal spot being darker and better de- 

 fined against the lighter testaceous ground-colour of the elytra, 

 which forms a submarginal vitta on each side, curving to the 

 suture behind, between the dorsal spot and the black apex. 

 This agrees with Putzeys' description of the Bornean P. Bec- 

 carii. On comparing a large number of examples 1 find, 

 however, that the elytra of P. Beccarii are always smoother 

 and glossier, the striai still more feebly impressed or entirely 

 invisible ; the thorax, too, has rather straighter sides and more 



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