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scarcely visibly punctate, with a very fine and sliort blackish pile. 

 Antennas paler than the thorax, but the legs and body beneath 

 entirely o£ the same colour as they are ; the scutellum also red. 

 The thorax has the base finely margined, the sides are quite mei'ged 

 in the same curve as the base. The elytra are brilliant, oi; a dark 

 metallic green, evenly punctured, with very fine and very short 

 blackish pubescence. 



This insect appears to be allied to Allochotes hicolor, Westw. ; it 

 seems to differ from it in being larger, in the antennae being 

 inserted closer to the eyes (in Westwood's figure, t. ix. f. 1 a, they 

 are shown as inserted well in front of the excision), in the thorax not 

 being " f ulvo-setosus," and in the elytra not being " nigro-viridia." 



Two specimens. 



SlSTEXOPHORUS CH-RTSOMELIIfUS. 



Allochotes chrysomelina, Westw. Ent. Mo. Mag. xiii. p. 242. 



A single specimen from the Euby Mines, Burmah, may pertain 

 to this JN^ew-Guinea species, but it seems hardly likely that it 

 would ; but the brief diagnosis, six words, in addition to the size, 

 2| lines, apply quite well to it, as they might to many other species. 

 We cannot be always going to Oxford to see types. 



SiSYBXOPHORUS FRTI. 



Niger, densius suhpruinoso-pubescens ; capite, antennis, pedihus 

 (femorihus prcete't-missis), prothoracis hasi, ehjtrorumqiie fasciis 

 duabus, exter)ie ahbreviatis, j^^sterlore lato, fulvis ; elytris 

 creberrime et subtilissime punctatis. Long. 6"5 millim. 

 flab. Burmah, Euby Mines (Boheriij). 



Head entirely pale rusty red, shining ; eyes not large ; the 

 antennae as long as the head and thorax, the third and fourth 

 joints elongate, the fifth to the tenth quadrate but gradually 

 shortening, the apical joint short. 



Tenerus doheettaxus, n. sp. 



T. chaljhsdo pro.vimus et valde afflais ; cyaneus, nitidus ; palpis ad 

 basin, epistomate punctoque capitis Jlavis, antennis mgris, elytris 

 unicostatis. Long. 7 millim. 



Hub. Perak (Doherty). 



This species is so very much like T. clialybmis, Gorh. (Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 405), that it will be sufficient to point out the 

 differences. The elytra appear to be rather longer, and have each 

 a fine costa nearer to the suture than to the shoulder, terminating 

 about a third from the apex. The elytra are even more closely 

 punctured. The presence of a yellow spot on the head recalls a 

 specimen of T. chalybceus mentioned {loc. cit.). 



I have not hitherto had any reason to doubt that costation of 

 the elytra is a specific character in this genus. It is, however, 

 so very difficult to ascertain the sex, that this supposition must be 

 taken with some reserve. 



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