the Coleopterous Family Erotylidce. (101) 477 

 Encaustes verticalis. 



Engis v&i'ticalis, MacL. Ann. Jav. 41. 



Encaustes , Lac. Erot. 35. 



Java. 



A specimen labelled "Bengal" is larger and with the apical 

 sixth of the elytra entirely black; it is, however, scarcely speci- 

 fically distinct. 



Encaustes malayana. 



Psekqjhacus malayanus, Guer. R. Z. 1841, 157. 

 Encaustes malayana, Lac. Erot. 36. 



Java, Sumatra (Lacordaire), Tringano, Malacca (Wallace). 

 The thorax is partially margined behind. 



Encaustes opaca, sp. n. 



Nigra, opaca, pftnctata ; capite Itevi, fronte profiinde emar- 

 ginato, sulcis ocularibus profundis ; thorace antice latiore, angu- 

 lia auticis productis rotimdatis, lateribus reflexis, basi late rotuu- 

 dato, lEevi, macnla utrinque diffornii fulva; elytris subsulcatis, 

 punctatis, unicoloribus. Lt 11 lin. 



Ligor (Wallace). 



Encaustes cruenta. 



Engis cruenta, MacL. Ann. Jav. 42. 



Encaustes — , Lac. Erot. 38. 



Cambodia, Java, Penang, N. Borneo (Wallace). 



The base of the thorax margined at the angles only. The 

 specimens without a scutellar spot are males, and have the anterior 

 femora curved. 



Encaustes javanica. 



Engis javanica, Lap. Hist. Nat. il. 15. 

 Encaustes — , Lac. Erot. 40, 

 Java. 



Encaustes dispar.* 



Encaustes dispar, Lac. Erot. 39. 



Java (Buquet). 



1 have not seen this species. 



Encaustes marginalis, sp. n. 



Nigro-picea, nitida, capite antice sublaevi, vertice punctato, 

 fronte clypeo maculisque duabus in vertice rvibris ; thorace sub- 

 quadrato, basi plus minusve marginato, sparse subtiliter punc- 



