302 MR. A. MURRAY’S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 
Allied to 8. latus, but narrower and smaller. Oblong, opaque, rugosely punctate, 
cinereo-pubescent; black, with the disk of the elytra rufous. Head and thorax as in 
B. latus, with the posterior foveze of the latter less deep and more expanded, extending to 
the base and the sides. Elytra with a narrow black margin surrounding the rufous disk 
on every side; the costæ more marked than in B. latus; the interstices punctate-striate, 
narrower, and not flat. Abdomen with the fimbric raised and inner margin curved. Legs 
with the thighs black; knees, tibize, and tarsi rufous. In other respects like B. latus. 
Found at Sarawak in Borneo, &c. I have named this species after Dr. W. H. Lowe, 
of Balgreen near Edinburgh, an excellent naturalist and a much-prized friend. 
(Subgenus SELIS (seAic, a margin).) 
Corpus elongatum, pubescens, depressum. Thorax marginibus haud ciliatis. Labrum leviter bilobum vel 
emarginatum.  Ligulalobis subovatis. Abdomen postice cuneatum, pygidio basi latitudine longiore, 
fimbriis prominentibus. 
Body more or less depressed, elongate, pubescent. "Thorax with the sides not fringed 
with hairs. Labrum slightly bilobed or emarginate. Mandibles with the apex narrow 
and salient, the one bicuspid, the other with five or six small teeth. Ligula with the 
membranous lobes subovate. Scutellum rounded at the apex. Abdomen rapidly attenu- 
ated or wedge-shaped behind, the pygidium being longer than broad; fimbrisz promi- 
nent. In other respects nearly as in Brachypeplus proper. 
This subgenus diverges more from the normal type of the Brachypepli than any of the 
sections into which I have divided them, except Onicotis and Liparopeplus; and these 
three might perhaps rank as separate genera of Brachypeplide instead of merely sub- 
genera. 
24. BRACHYPEPLUS CUNEATUS. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 11.) 
 Elongatus, antice oblongus et parallelus, subopacus, punctatus et parum pubescens; 
elytris costatis, piceo-brunneis; prothorace et abdomine testaceo-piceis. Long. 
2$ lin., lat. 1 lin. 
Habitat in insula Batchian. 
Elongate, oblong and parallel in front, wedge-shaped behind, punctate, sparingly pubes- 
cent, subopaque, brownish piceous. Head dark brown, thickly punctate and slightly pubes- 
cent ; epistome very short, widened a little in front, and with a slight, narrow, impunctate, 
almost imperceptibly raised line running longitudinally up the middle of it; the margin 
over the basal joint of the antenn rather raised and swollen, with a slight depression 
behind it. Antennz pale testaceous, with the club darker, the basal article swollen. 
Thorax transverse, slightly convex, somewhat flattened on the disk, emarginate in front, 
narrower in front than behind; sides expanded and with a large reflexed margin, some- 
what narrowed towards the base, but so little as to be almost straight for the posterior 
two-thirds of their length ; for the anterior third they are gently rounded and declinate 
to the anterior angles, which are rounded; posterior angles nearly right-angled; base 
bisinuate; thickly and rugosely but not deeply punctate, rather closely clothed with 
