400 Suvg.-Capt. A. Alcock on 



Oblong-ovate, black, shining ; the head iiregularly punctu- 

 late ; the thorax bluish black, somewhat densely punctulate, 

 lateral margin canaliculate, feebly sinuous behind the eyes, 

 bisinuous at the base; the scutellum smooth, and as large 

 again as in C. induta ; the elytra strongly punctate-striate, 

 interstices convex and nearly smooth, with a golden area over 

 the hind coxee, otherwise similar in colour to C. induta. In 

 the male the anterior and intermediate tibise are bent and a 

 little enlarged at the tarsal end, the enlarged part of the ante- 

 rior tibisB is denticulate on the inner edge. 



This species closely resembles C. induta^ but it is longer, 

 with the lateral rim of the thorax more elevated, the scutel- 

 lum larger, and the elytral interspaces more convex and less 

 punctulate. 



Ilab. Kumakuni in Higo. Three examples. 



Ceropria induta, Wiedem. 

 Ceropria induta, Wiedem. Zool. Mag. i. 3, 1819, p. 164. 

 Specimens of this species were named C. subocellata, Cast., 

 by Marseul in 1876 ; it was originally described from Javan 

 specimens. I have taken it commonly in Ceylon and Singa- 

 pore, and it appears to be distributed all over tiie Oriental 

 region. 



JJab. Nagasaki and Oyama. Like tlie three preceding 

 species in Japan, it occurs under the bark of Kuro-raatzu 

 [Pinus massoniana, S. & Z.). 



[To be contmued.] 



XLIV. — Natural History Notes from H.M. Indian Marine 

 Survey Steamer ^ Investigator^^ Commander R. F. Hoskyn^ 

 B.N., late commanding. — Series 11., No. 1. On the Results 

 of the Deep-sea Dredging during the Season 1890-91 

 {concluded). By A. Alcock, M.B., Surgeon-Captain 

 I.M.S., Superintendent of the Indian Museum. 



[Continued from p. 334.] 



BRACIIYURA. 



Family Inachidae. 

 EcHiNOPLAX, Miers. 



85. Echiiioplax pungcnSj Wood-Mason. 



Echinopla.r punffetis, "Wood-Mason, Ann. & Ma?. Nat. Hist., March 

 1801, p. 250. 



Station 115, 188-220 fathoms. 



