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brown pubescence, which is directed on each side backwards and inwards to the mesial 
line; testaceo-piceous, paler and translucent towards the margins. Scutellum rounded, 
thickly punctate, and pubescent. Elytra scarcely broader and nearly a half longer than 
the thorax, flat, not so opaque, slightly shining, somewhat depressed towards the suture, 
costate, and with pubescence running along the cost»; the interstices rather broad and 
punctate, with transverse impressions; sides nearly parallel, with a deeply canaliculated 
reflexed margin, apex truncate, exterior apical angles a little rounded; piceous brown, 
with the shoulders and sides paler. Abdomen slightly shining, the margins raised, and 
fimbrize prominent, finely but not closely punctate, slightly pubescent, fuscous, darkest 
in the middle, and with the sides testaceo-piceous. Underside paler. Legs pale tes- 
taceous. | 
Found by Mr. Wallace in rotten Kanary-fruit in the island of Batchian. 
25. BRACHYPEPLUS APICALIS. 
Elongatus, oblongo-ovatus, subopaeus, subdepressus, leviter punctatus, testaceo Fig. 69. 
pubescens, leete rufo-testaceus; elytris costatis et striato-punctatis, apice 
late nigro ; abdomine pygidio coarctato, apice subacuto, medio fuscescente 
et segmento penultimo fusco notato. Long. 2 lin., lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in Mysol. 
Elongate, oblong-ovate, subopaque and subdepressed, faintly but closely punctate, 
clothed with testaceous pubescence, clear rufo-testaceous. Head thickly punctate, with 
a slight transverse depression at the base of the epistome. Thorax transverse, slightly 
convex, with the sides very little rounded and very slightly expanded, a little narrower 
in front than behind ; apex emarginate ; base truncate, straight ; anterior angles obtusely 
rounded, posterior angles nearly right-angled, but slightly obtuse; punctate, the punc- 
tures rugose and somewhat variolose, the pubescence rather long, loose, and soft. Scu- 
tellum with the apex rounded, slightly punctate and pubescent. Elytra nearly a half 
longer than the thorax, about the breadth of the thorax, slightly costate and pubescent, 
the cost a little bent, being rather nearer the suture in the middle than at either the 
base or apex, the interstices transversely punctate; sides subparallel, declinate, margined 
and rather widely canaliculated ; humeral angles gently and little rounded ; apex truncate, 
exterior apical angles greatly rounded, sutural angles right-angled; the apex for more 
than a third and less than a half of the length of the elytra black, the black portion not 
reaching quite so far forward on the outer margins. Abdomen conical, the pygidium 
ending in a projecting blade at the apex, the dorsal part extending further than the 
ventral; the fimbriz of the penultimate and antepenultimate segments slightly sinuate 
on the inner side, extending across the anterior margin of the segments, with an elevated 
papilla or thickened edging (behind which are the stigmata) at about a third from the 
front: the fimbriæ ofthe pygidium are sinuate on the inner side and widest in front ; 
there is a longitudinal brown mark on the pygidium, widest behind, and a somewhat 
square fuscous mark in the middle of the penultimate segment. 
Collected by Mr. Wallace in the island of Mysol, north of Ceram. 
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