294 Mr. II. E. Andiowes on Oriental CaiabicUv. 



^rr. Sevcrin lias very kindly sent me from tlie Brussels 

 Museum for examination tour of Putzeys' types of Mtsce/un, 

 viz., M. nnico/ur (Java), M. rulncratus (Moluecas), M. para- 

 do.vus (Pliilippine Is.), and M. convexicolh's (Borneo). Tlie 

 first of these was described before the others (Mem. Soc. 

 Liege, ii. 1845, p. 375), and on a single specimen. Tlie other 

 tliree were described togetlier (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875. 

 pp. 724-5), and the autiior evidently had but little material 

 at liis disposal, though the specimens came from very 

 different localities. In these circumstances he seems to me 

 to have treated individual peculiarities as of specific value. 

 To my eyes M. vulneratus, paradu.vus, and convcxicollls do 

 not differ in any material way ivo\\\ javamis, and I consider 

 them mere synonyms. M. imicolor I look upon as an un- 

 spotted variety of the same species, identical with the 

 subsequently de.scril)ed M. rufiveatris, Walk. (Ann. & ^lag. 

 Nat. Hist. (3) ii. 1858. p. 202), and M. ceylonicus, Chaud. 

 (Berl. ent. Zeit. 18G1, p. 125). 



The types of Putzeys' two remaining species, M. luctuosus 

 and .V. sti/f/iciis (Ann. ]Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, pj). 725-6), 

 both coming from New Guinea, are in the Genoa Museum, 

 and, thanks to the courtesy of Dr. Gestro, I have Ijccn able 

 to examine them. Of the former, Putzeys gives a fairly 

 long and detailed description, and I find it to be quite 

 distinct, but I am not able at present to differentiate 

 j\J. stijyicHS from M. uni color, 



Scliaufuss has also described two species, the types of 

 which I have not seen, viz., M. celebensis and M. plunatus 

 (Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xix. 1885, pp. 183—4) ; the latter is 

 stated by the author to be only a variety o{ javamis, and I 

 can see nothing in the description of the former to lead me 

 think that it is really distinct from that species. 



The following table shows how the three species of this 

 genus, which I have been able to recognise, m;iy be dis- 

 tinguished ; I have not referred to the apical red spot, which 

 occurs only '\\x javanus, and may be present or absent : — 



Key to the Species. 



1 (2). Eyes moderately prominent ; jjrothoiax 

 with front angles rounded, projecting 

 very little forwards, hind angles much 

 rounded, base distinctly bordered; elytra 

 with very square shoulders, apex of each 

 elytron emarginate, the outer angle 

 rounded, but forming a distinct blunt 

 tooth, intervals not carinate, but outer 

 ones convex near base hictuosiif, Putz. 



