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anterior angles o£ pronotum, the head distinctly narrower 

 than the anterior pronotal angles ; liead broad, considerably 

 broader than long, the anterior margin subtruncate, central 

 lobe reaching the anterior margin ; eyes moderately obliqiady 

 elevate ; pronotum concavely sinuate at insertion of: lieail ; 

 pronotum centrally about hait' as long as broad at base, the 

 anterior lateral margins obliquely convexly dilated, posterior 

 margin truncate; scutelluni broad, convex, not quite reaching 

 apex of abdomen ; rostrum about reaching the intermediate 

 00X98 ; antennai live-jointed ; tirst and second joints short, 

 first moderately thickened, second shorter than first, third 

 slightly longer than fourth or fiftlr ; spiracles a little before 

 lateral margins of abdomen. 



Allied to Taricliea and Oncylaspis^ but with the lobes of 

 the head equal in length. 



Merinjakia typica, sp. n. 



Body above ochraceous, thickly, coarsely, darkly punctate ; 

 anterior margins of head, a spot at apex and near base of 

 central lobe, an excavate spot ou each side of base before 

 eyes, and two angulate transverse fascise on anterior disk of 

 pronotum black ; prosternum opaque violet-black ; abdomen 

 beneath ochraceous brow^n, the margins broadly flavous, the 

 spiracles and a spot at apices of segmental incisures black, 

 the incisures before the lateral margins and a short trans- 

 verse excavate line between them bbick ; femora ochraceous 

 blackly spotted near apices, tibi^ and tarsi fuscous brown ; 

 structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 8 mm., max. breadth 7^ mm. 



Hab. Borneo ; Mt. Merinjak {J. C. Moulton, type in 

 Brit. Mus.). 



Coptosoma nigrosignatum^ sp. n. 



Dull ochraceous with prominent black markings ; head 

 with the central lobe and a spot at base behind the ocelli 

 black; pronotum with a transverse waved line before the 

 anterior margin and four large oblong spots on posterior 

 disk black ; scutellum with a large tiansverse spot behind 

 base, narrowly continued posteriorly on each side, and out- 

 wardly dilated apically, black ; sternum bluish-black opaque, 

 its anterior lateral margins, head beneath, rostrum, and legs 

 flavescent ; abdomen beneath shining testaceous, the disk 

 suffused with blatdvish ; head moderately subangulateiy 

 prominent, vertically depressed, eyes castaneous ; pronotum 

 convex, vertically depressed in front, sparsely punctate, 

 posterior angles subangularly rounded ; scutellum broader 



