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longer than the thorax, costate, with stiff testaceous hairs running along the coste, the 
interstices transversely punctate-striate, the interstice next the suture depressed and 
more closely punctate; the sides parallel, somewhat declinate, and margined; the 
external apical angles broadly rounded, the sutural angles less so. Abdomen fuscous, 
slightly convex in the middle, very faintly punctate, the pubescence springing from the 
punctures (the punctuation not observable except with a powerful glass); fimbriæ nearly 
parallel. Legs testaceous. 
Found by Mr. Wallace in the fruit of the Durian (Durio zibethinus), at Sarawak in 
Borneo. 
18. BRACHYPEPLUS PATRUELIS. 
Valde affinis B. orientali; minus latus, paulo minus depressus, prothorace Fig. 62. 
lateribus zequaliter levissime rotundato, basi fere recte truncato. Long. [iai] 
1} lin., lat. + lin. 
Habitat in India orientali. 
So close to B. orientalis that it is with much hesitation I separate it. It is not so broad 
nor so depressed, more punctate, and the sides of the thorax are more equally rounded. 
In B. orientalis there is a slight tendency to sinuation near the posterior angles, which 
is absent in this species. B. orientalis has the thorax more depressed than the elytra, 
and has the base sinuate in front of the scutellum as well as on the sides, which is 
scarcely the case in this species. This is also lighter in colour, being wholly piceo- 
testaceous and a little more shining. 
From the East Indies. 
19. BRACHYPEPLUS OMALINUS. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 7.) 
Elongatus, oblongus, subdepressus, griseo pubescens, leviter punctatus, piceus, Fig. 63. 
prothorace lateribus dilutioribus, ore, antennis (clava obscura excepta) od 
pedibusque ferrugineo-testaceis; elytris costatis, luride testaceis, lateribus, 
sutura et apice tenuiter piceis. Long. 1} lin., lat. 2 lin. 
Habitat in Taprobana. 
Elongate, oblong, subdepressed, subopaque, lightly punctate and griseo-pubescent, 
piceous, with the sides of the thorax paler; the mouth, the antennæ (except the club, 
which is fuscous), and the legs ferrugineo-testaceous; the elytra of a lurid testaceous 
colour enclosed by a narrow piceous margin. Head lightly bi-impressed in front. 
Thorax transverse, subconvex, the sides subparallel and slightly narrowed in front, 
the anterior angles rounded, the posterior obtusely right angles, the apex slightly 
sinuate, the base bi-emarginate, the sides and part of the base next the sides slightly and 
narrowly margined. Scutellum transverse, semicircular, punctate. Elytra almost a half 
longer than the thorax, slightly eostate, with a row of transverse punctures in the inter- 
stices; the sides margined and sinuate in the middle, the exterior angles rounded. 
Abdomen moderately convex; fimbrie with the inner margin straight and oblique, 
wider behind than in front. 
Allied to B. orientalis; it is smaller, narrower, and more convex, less pubescent, the 
