Coleonter()n-<t Famil;/ Clerida'. 95 



Stigmatium tapetum, n. sp. 



Fusco-piceuin, striato-pimctatiiin, elytris pone medium fascia 

 tenui ni«TO-picea, femorihus quatnor posticis apice fuscis. Long, 

 lin. 3-4! 



Depressed, pitchy, varied with fuscous, and with patches of 

 silky grey pile ; the legs and antenna;, head and sides of the 

 thorax are thickly set with fine setfe. Antenna? and palpi red, 

 mandibles black. Width of the thorax in the middle about 

 equal to the length. Elytra with series of distinct punctures as 

 far as the narrow dark fascia, the latter nearly straight, produced 

 up the margin towards the base ; behind the fascia the grey 

 pile is denser but exhibits small denuded spots, which are 

 formed by little tubercules on the interstices of the stria;, which 

 are continued without punctures to the apex, the latter more 

 denuded and marked with fuscous. Breast pitchy, abdomen red. 



Halj. Mindanao (Semper). Sarawak (Wallace). Siam (^NFouhot). 



Sfit/}iiafii/)ii / lorliiiiim, n. sp. 



Nigro-cyaueum vel violaceum, prothorace lirevi transverso, 

 autennis basi, palpis, pedibusque tiavis, his tibiis nigris, ab- 

 d(unine testaceo. Long. lin. '?>. 



Head and thorax very short, the latter with the disc rather 

 depressed and the sides much rounded and very suddenly con- 

 tracted to the base. Antennie longer than head and thorax, 

 thin, joint 2 short, 3 and 4 elongate, 5 to apex shorter, trian- 

 gularly serrate, fuscous. Elytra with the sides nearly parallel, 

 deeply punctate striate to the apex, dark steel blue or violet, 

 mouth testaceous. Legs bright yellow, tibiie obscure green. 

 Lhiderside steel blue, abdomen yellow. 



Hab.— Mysol, Aru., (Wallace). 



Sti'jmafitiin piohicptun, n. sp. 



Violaceum vel ca^ruleum, tcnuiter pubescens, ore autennis 

 (clava excepta), pedibus, abdomineque tiavis. Long. lin. 3|. 



Longer than the preceding, and more pubescent, head and 

 thorax short, the latter sub-quadrate, sides moderately rounded, 

 obsoletely punctured with a thin pubescence. Elytra punctate- 

 striate, the stride little distinct and almost -vanishing before the 

 apex. Antennaj shorter and stouter than in iodinum joints 8, 9, 

 10 alone serrate, club fuscous. Legs entirely pale yellow. 



Hab.— Mysol, Dorey, (Wallace). 



