38 i.V( u> i . 



lines divided at the base bj a very fine oarina : the outer line of 

 panoturea baa atendeno] to enoroaob on t lie inner line, and towarda 

 the apex the linea arc Bomewhat confused. 



It is doubtful to which sex the specimen described belongs. 



CAUTIRES. 



Etoatmm none. Antenna 1 of tbe male with a long compressed 

 branch proceeding from the base of the third to tenth joints; very 



BtrOngl} dentate in the l'eniale. Thorax willi seven areolets, the two 



lateral ones Bometimea obaoletely divided. Elytra as in Bulenides. 



The males of this genua are easily known by the branches of the 

 antenna! joints arising from the base of the joints. Tbe females 

 have the antennas very acutely dentate. 



Cautires excellens. 



(Plate V11I. fig. 9, & Plate IX. fig. 3.) 



I. veils (gen. 22) excellens, Waterh., Tram. Ent. Soc, 1878, pp. 101, 

 110. 



Ater, opacus ; thorace scptemareolato ; elytris dimidio basali pal- 

 lide fusco, quadrieostatis, interstitiis biseriatim evidenter punctatis, 

 punctis nigris. d , $ . Long. 3| lin. 



Hah. Sarawak ( Wallace). 



The lateral areolets of tbe thorax are sometimes not very distinctly 

 divided, but the ridge separating them is generally well marked. 

 The elytra have each four costae, the interstices with two rows of 

 black punctures, the rows divided by a fine line, not by a distinct 

 costa. 



Cautires excellens, var. 



2 . This variety (as it seems best to consider it for the present) 

 differs from the female of C. excellens from Borneo in being rather 

 smaller, in having the base of the elytra more red, but especially in 

 having the joints of the antennae differently formed ; the branches 

 arise from the base of the joints, and not from the apex, being thus 

 Bomewhat intermediate in form between the male and female of the 

 Bornean examples. 



Hab. Sumatra {Buxton). 



Cautires congener. 



(Plate IX. fig. 7.) 



Fuscus, subopacus ; thorace ochraceo ; elytris basi ochraceis, qua- 

 dricostatis, interstitiis biseriatim sat fortiter punctatis. J , $ . 



Long. 3-5 lin. 

 Hah. Java («/. C. Boivrinr/, Esq.). 



