Coleopterous Funiili/ Dermestidic. 410 



This is very closely related to ^4. ocelli/er, Blackb., with 

 which jilone it shares the peculiar ohloiiii; form, aiiti-riorly 

 ••It'vatcd pronotum, and al)ni|itly c1u1)1)imI ll-jointed antiMina?. 

 It (iitVtMs, however, in its more elon<rate outline and much 

 smaller and more setilorm scales. Tlio pattern formed hy 

 these is very variable hut like that of A. ocellifcr. The 

 front and hind margins of the pronotum are clothed with 

 li;;ht scales, and these also form upon the elytra an anterior 

 rinir, an ine^^ular median hand and a pnsterior rin^;. These 

 niaikinj:;s may Itecome split up into small scattered patches, 

 and hrown scales may ap[)ear in addilion to the black and 

 white ones. 



Genus Apsectus. 



Trinodes mexicaniis, Reitter, is probably Apsectus hj/strix^ 

 Sharp, described twenty-two yenrs later, and in that case will 

 become Apsectus mexicanus, Ucitt. 



This <i;enns, which differs from trinodes in not having the 

 mesosternum channelled tor the reception of a narrow pro- 

 steinal process (which process is therefore also absent), is not 

 confined to the \Vestern Hemis[)here, as might be supposed 

 fiom the Catalogue. It is probable that numerous Orientsil 

 species exist. One at least of those at present referred to 

 Trinodes must be transferred to it. This is T. hirtel/us, 

 Walker, in which the prosternum is very short and excised 

 behind and the mesosternum entire and rounded in front to 

 tit the prosternum. 



Closely allied Oriental forms are the following, while 

 another from Australia is yet undescribed : — 



Apsectus iota, sp. n. 



Parvus, late ovatus, pronoto haud angusto ; prosterno rectangulari, 

 postice recto truncato, mesosterno lato, antice fere recte trun- 

 cate ; antennis gracilibus (? maris), clava fusiformi, bi-articulata, 

 articulo penultirao transverse, ultimo ovali, quara pra^cedenti 

 quadruplice lonj^iori. 



Long. 1*5 mm. 



ILib. Ti:nimber Is. : Larat. 



Three specimens were taken by Mr. F. ]\Iuir amongst an 

 important collection of Coleoptera from this suudl Malayan 

 island. 



It is a species exceedingly like T. hirtef/us, Walker, in 

 size and general appeanince, but rather more broailly oval, 

 the pronotum especially being less narrowed. In the relation 

 of the parts of the sternum it is also similar. As in A. hir- 

 telb'Sj the antenna (of the presumed male) ends with a large 



