744 MB. C. J. GAHA2f ON COLBOPTBKA [l)eC. 5 



Following his description of Anuhis dtssifus (Cist. Ent. ii. p. 412) 

 Bates remarks that " ^. clavicomis (= sexmaculatus, White), 

 dissitus and scalaris, Pasc, are distinguishable from each other by 

 the form of the pygidium. In clavicomis it is sinuated or notched 

 at the apex, in scalaris abruptly narrowed and subacute, in dissitus 

 rounded," This statement coming from so eminent and careful 

 an authority is likely to create confusion. In but a single speci- 

 men of clavicomis out of several that I have examined (including 

 the Fabrician type) did I find the pygidium to be sinuate, and in 

 that one ifc was only slightly so ; in all the others it was rounded. 

 In scalaris, Pasc, also, the pygidium is rounded. Bates probably 

 mistook for the latter an undescribed species {A. bohemanni. 

 White MS.) in which the pygidium is rather sharply pointed and 

 slightly curved outwards at the apex. In this species also the fifth 

 ventral segment is rather strongly emarginate behind. In markings 

 it resembles A. scalaris, Pasc. 



41. LOPHOPTEEA ASPEETJLA, White. 



42. Teagocephala va:eiegata, Bertol. 



43. Cbeoplesis caffee, Thunb. 



44. Cymatuea bifasciata, G-erst., var. nigeipennis. 

 Llytris omnino nigris. 



This variety is only to be distinguished from the form described 

 and figured by Gerstaecker by its wanting the two ochreous 

 transverse bands of the elytra which are present in that form. 

 The elytra and the pubescence that covers them are entirely black. 



45. NiTOCEis siMiLis, sp. n. 



2 . N. abdominali (Fdhr.) supra sat similis scd paullo major ; 



metathorace utrinque nigro-plagiato ; ahdomine nigra, suhtiliter 



atro-pubescen^e, segmentis 1", 2''que utrinque triangidariter 



fulvo-sericeo-plagiatis, segmento 4° transversim fulvo-sericeo- 



fasciato ; segmento ultimo medio late subdepresso et dense nigro- 



tomentoso ; pedibus Jlavo-testaceis, tarsis omnibus supra et tibiis 



posticis nigris. Long. 23-28 mm. 



This species closely enough resembles N. abdominalis when seen 



from above, but may be distinguished by the characters of the 



underside. There is a black transverse or oblique patch, of 



greater or less extent, on each side of the hind part of the meta- 



thorax ; the first abdominal segment has a large triangular fulvous 



sericeous spot on each side, the anterior and posterior margins of 



the segment being also narrowly fulvous ; the second has also a 



triangular fulvous spot on each side (in some examples a very 



small fulvous spot appears at the postero-lateral angle of the third 



segment) ; the fourth has a narrower transverse spot on each side, 



the two spots of this segment forming together a transverse 



band slightly interrupted in the middle; the last segment is 



somewhat broadly depressed in the middle of its ventral surface, 



