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from the base to the auterior margin ; the ridges dividing the other 

 areolets are, in the female, not well marked ; the anterior border is 

 obscurely punctured. Elj'tra gently convex, very delicately pubes- 

 cent ; the intervals with two rows of close fine punctures, the rows 

 not divided by any distinct line ; the basal half is yellow, or inclined 

 to pale red. The sterna are yellow. The legs in the male have the 

 base of the femora and the base of the tibiae yellow ; the female 

 examples have the whole of the four anterior femora and tibiae 

 yellowish, the apex of the latter is dusky in one example. 



The male has the antennse flabellate ; in the female they are 

 simply dentate. 



Cladophorus ornatus. 



(Plate XVI. fig. 1.) 



Niger, opacus ; thoraee, scutello, elytrorum fascia lata, pectore, 

 abdomine basi, femorumquo basi late flavis. c? . Long. 4| lin. 



Hah. New Guinea ( Wallace) . 



A species at once known from all its allies by the remarkable 

 coloration of alternate clear yellow and dull black. Thorax with 

 seven areolets, the mesial one only distinctly defined ; the anterior 

 border and the sides are punctured. Elytra dull black, with a 

 broad yellow fascia rather before the middle ; each elytron has four 

 costse, the intervals with two rows of punctures (which are only 

 distinct in the yellow part), the rows divided by an extremely fine 

 line. 



Cladophorus aherrans. 



(Plate XVI. fig. 3.) 



Waterh., Trans. Ent. Soc, 1878, p. 112. 



Fuscus, pubeseens ; antennis brunneis, ramis fuseo-nigris ; thoraee 

 sordide testaceo, medio parum constricto ; scutello apice fere truncato ; 

 elytris quadricostatis, interstitiis fortiter transversim punctatis, basi 

 costis intermediis brevibus ; humeris brunneo-testaceis ; coxis pal- 

 lidis. Long. 4 lin. 



Hab. Aru Island (Wallace). 



Antennse brownish, with the apex of each joint and the branch 

 (which is a little longer than the joint itself) blackish. Thorax pale 

 testaceous, divided into seven distinct areolets. Elytra with the 

 shoulders and the basal half of the suture and extreme lateral margin 

 brownish ; each elytron with the four costae distinct, those near 

 the base turn away from the scuteUum ; the interstices are strongly 

 punctured with transverse punctures ; in the first, second, and third 

 interstices thei'e ax'e short intermediate costse near the base. 



