1892.] coleoptera from kina balxj. 89 



Lampyrid^. 

 Vesta aurantiaca. (Plate IV. fig. 9.) 



Vesta aurantiaca, Ern. Oliv., Notes from Leyd. Mus. vol. viii. 

 1886, p. 192. 



Hab, Borneo, Kina Balu {Whitehead). 



M. Ernest Olivier has separated ituder this name specimens of 

 a Vesta referred by me to Vesta urens, described by myself from 

 Borneo (cf. Notes from Leyd. Mus. vol. v. 1883, p. 3). Three speci- 

 mens collected by ^Ir. Whitehead on Kina Balu agree precisely with 

 one of these specimens from Sumatra in my possession. As the 

 specimen which M. E. Olivier redescribes as the type of my V. urens 

 is now at Leyden, I have no means of forming an opinion on the 

 specific distinction of V. aurantiaca, but it certainly occurs in Borneo, 

 as these specimens prove. 



Pyroccelia, Gorham. 

 Pyroc(elia collaris, n. sp. (Plate IV. fig. 7.) 



Oblonga, suhparallela, opace nigro-fumosa ; prothorace Irevi, 

 transversa, flavo, distincte at tenuiter carinato, margine antico 

 late et alte rejlexo, basirecte truncato, angulis posticis subrectis, 

 nulla modo productis ; pygidio flavo. Long. 20 millim. 



Hab. Borneo, Kina Balu ( Whitehead). 



Head black, eyes moderate ; antennae long and thin for this genus, 

 nearly as in P. fumigata, the joints much longer than wide and not 

 serrate ; thorax almost semicircular, with the margins much reflesed, 

 the diaphanous lunules not very translucent. Elytra entirely smoky 

 black, two costules moderately distinct for about two thirds of the 

 length of the elytra, the intermediate one very obsolete ; scutellum, 

 head, legs, and body entirely dull black, with the exception of the 

 apical ventral segment and pygidium and of the two luminous 

 patches. 



This insect is apparently allied to P. opaca, Bourg., described and 

 figured in the ' Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di 

 Genova,' vol. ii. 1885, p. 349, t. v. f. 2, from, which, however, it differs 

 by the scutellum being black, by the entirely black legs and body, 

 and by the absence of the pubescence, and (judging by the figure) 

 by the thinner and not serrate antennae. 



One specimen. 



DiAPHANES, Motschulsky. 

 Dtaphanes apicalis, n. sp. (Plate IV. fig. 8.) 



Breviter oblongus, subopacus, ochraceus ; prothorace brevi, margine 

 antico elevato, lunulis duabus translucidis ; disco antice 

 tenuissime carinato; elytrorum apicibus, antenms,palpis, pedibus, 

 abdomineque (apice excepto) nigris. Long. 14 millim. 



Hab. Borneo, Kina Balu {Whitehead). 



This species resembles rather closely Pyroccelia terminata, Gorh., 

 but from the thin antennae and the size of the eyes and the clear 



