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liver, fig. 17 ca.c, and, from fig. 15, we see that the membrane which separates 
this space from the peritoneal cayity passes partly internally to the kidneys and 
partly outside them, so that it represents more than the peritoneum. Also, 
from fig. 14, that it is not correct to say that the membrane referred to excludes 
the kidneys from the peritoneal cavity, in which lie the genital glands, for the 
posterior portion of the kidney lies distinctly within this latter cavity. 
4. Descriptions of new Species of the Coleopterous Family 
Erotylide. By Rev. H. S. Gornam, F.Z.S8. 
[Received November 11, 1889.] 
(Plate LXI.) 
The following descriptions are to some extent supplementary to my 
paper on the Erotylide read before the Society in 1883 (see P. Z. 8. 
1883, p. 75). 
The types are either in my own collection or in that of Mr. E. 
Armitage, R.A.; a few of the specimens are also contained in the 
Cambridge collection formed by the late Mr. Crotch, whose MS. 
name I have retained for the first species here described ; it was, 
however, placed in Zpiscapha, the specimen being hardly well enough 
preserved for critical examination. 
1. TRIPLATOMA VARIA, sp. nov. (Plate LXI. fig. 1.) 
Elongata, subparallela, nigra, rufo-maculata, subnitida; vertice, 
prothoraceis utrinque macula arcuata ; elytris fasciis tribus den- 
tatis, prima per ramum eum basi conjuncta rufis ; corpore 
subtus rufo piceoque variegato, femoribus infra rufo-maculatis. 
Long. 17 millim. 
Hab. Malacca, Penang (coll. Crotch and E. Armitage). 
Head closely but distinctly punctured ; antenne with the third 
joint not much enlarged at the tip, the fourth to the eighth joints 
longer than broad. The thorax transverse, very finely and thickly 
punctured, smooth and shining, the front angles a little prominent, 
the sides almost straight, the front as wide as the base; hind angles 
rectangular. Elytra smooth, with fine serially punctured strice and 
flat interstices, or very obsoletely subsulcate. The red markings 
are a broad spot on vertex of the head, a mark somewhat like a 
Hebrew_letter Caph on each side of the thorax, the open side out- 
wards, one corner reaching the front angle, the other prolonged 
towards the base. 
On the elytra are three irregular fascizee, much as in 7’. gestrot, 
Bedel, but less dentate; the first with a ramus to the base forms a 
sort of ring enclosing the shoulder, except on the costal side, the 
second arcuate, the third is near the apex; none of them approach 
nearer the suture than the first stria. The epipleurz have a spot 
at the base, and one on each side of the metasternum and of each 
ventral segment are red. 
T. varia is allied to, but amply distinct from, T. gestroi; it is 
smaller, smoother, the thorax is shorter, but it will fall into the 
