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C. WaUacei (n sp.) : Nitidus, piceris, suhaenco-micans, cly^eo crehre 

 snhtiliter pwidato; thorace disco utrinque ante medium angulato, medio 

 ohmhte, marginihus distincte pundato: elytrü pundato-striatis, interstitiis 

 impiivdatis ; pygidio fere laevi. — Loug. 5, lat. 4 mill. 



Sarawak (Wallace!). 



Clypeus quito rounded in front, with traces of a curvecl trans- 

 verse raiscd line on the middle and behind tliis a little depressed 

 (accidental ?) , finely punctured Thorax exeessively convex, scarcely 

 rounded on the sides, the hind angles obtuse, near the front on each 

 side of the middle is a slight angular impression, and under this the 

 surface is depressed, the front part is moderately closely and coarsely 

 punctured, the middle part finely and sparingly, the part towards the 

 hind angles rather coarsely. The mesosternum as well as the sides 

 of the prosternum are distinctly punctured ; the whole of the middle 

 part of the metasternum is irapunctate, but the sides are rather coar- 

 sely punctured. 



I have seen but a Single specimen of this remarkable little in- 

 sect; it was captured at Sarawak, by the distinguished naturalist 

 Ci. E, Wallace, in whose honour 1 have given its trivial name. 



Anoctus (nov. gen.). 



Corpus gJaherrimum. PaJpi lahiales hiartimlati. Clypeus margine 

 anteriore rotundato , linea verticali reda haud alte elevata. Antennae 

 9-articuhtae, artiailis 3 et 4 vix discretis. Tibiae anteriores apice trun- 

 catae, extus obttise tridentatae, tarsis gracilihus. Prosternum angulis an- 

 terioribus foveolatis, linea longitudinali nulla. Mesosternum hreve. Coxae 

 intermediae distantes , parallelae. Pedes quatuor postici hrevcs , tihiis 

 apicem versus leviter leniterque incrassatis, laminato-compressis, parce Ire- 

 rissime ciliatis, apice rede truncatis , tarsis compressis , tihiis paullo hre- 

 rioribus, subtus h'evissime ciliatis, articulo basali sequentibus tribus paullo 

 longiore , articulo quinto secundi longitudine , unguiculis minutissimis. 

 ■ Epipleurae acute inflexae. Pygidium convexum , apicem versus inftexiim. 



Affine generi Caccohio, differt elytrorum epipleuris abrupte inflexis 

 et structura pedum quatuor posticorum, 



A. laevis (n. sp.) : Pernitidus, minus convexus, niger , antennis 

 fclava fuscaj pedihusque rufescentibus , clypeo antice pygidioque picescenti- 



H .1 r o 1 d , Coleoiiterül. Heft. XIII. 4 



