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open behind. Mesosternum much broader than the prosternum ; 

 a-cetabula of middle coxae open to the epimera. Metathoracic 

 episterna rather broad in front, narrowed behind. Femora 

 pedunculate at base, gradually thickened into a fusiform club 

 towards the distal end. Hind legs much longer than either of 

 the anterior pairs ; first joint of hind tarsi longer than the three 

 succeeding joints together. Abdomen normal, its intercoxal 

 process rather broad, and obtuse in front. 



This genus, which I was at first inclined to refer to Lacordaire's 

 group Psehiince,^ seems to me, on fuller consideration of its 

 characters, to be better placed in the JSfecydcdinoi, although it 

 differs from other members of this group in having no anterior 

 prolongation of the heaxl, the front from the interantennary ridge 

 to the clypeal suture being relatively very short, and the clypeus 

 scarcely broader than the labium. The Psehiinm have certain 

 characters, wanting to the present genus, which point to an affinity 

 with the Auxesince and Methiince, and, through those groups, with 

 the dJmince. 



PsEBENA BREViPENNis, sp. n. (Plate XIX. fig. 12, 5 .) 



Capite, prothorace, elytris ad basin, articulo primo antennarwm 

 et pedihus quatuor anteriorihus rtifo-testaceis ; 'inetasterno 

 medio testaceo, lateraliter fusco ; abdomine medio et pedun- 

 culis femorum postico7^um pallide testaceis ; ceteris nigro-fuscis 

 aut nigris. 

 Long. 13-16 mm. 



Hah. Kuching in Sarawak, Sept. 29 and Dec. 4, 1899. Two 

 female examples ; in British Museum and Hope Collection, Oxford. 

 Head, prothorax, first joint of the antennas, the four anterior 

 legs, and the base of the elytra testaceous red. Metasternum 

 testaceous in the middle, dark brown at the sides. Abdomen 

 pale testaceous along the ventral surface from the base to the last 

 segment, this segment and the lateral borders being, like the 

 upper side, brownish black. Hind legs also black, with the 

 femoral stalks pale testaceous or nearly white. The head and 

 prothorax are covered with a very faint reddish pubescence, but 

 the prothorax has two slightly raised areas on each side bare of 

 pubescence. The inner portion of each elytron near the base is 

 very closely punctulate and covered with a faint pubescence, the 

 outer and apical parts being sparsely punctulate and more glossy. 



3. Coleoptera: Cleridce, by the Rev. H. S. Gorham 

 and 0. J. Gahan. 



Callimerus catenatus (Gorham), (Plate XXIII. fig. 54.) 



Nigro-subcceruleus, squam,is albis ornatus ; capite creherrime 

 subtiliter, prothorace elytrisque parce disti^icte punctatis ; 

 prothorace nitido, oblongo, lateribus parum, ampliatis, toirinque 

 uni-iinipressis, cum marginibus anticis et posticis alho- 

 squamosis ; elytris opacis, apicibus oblique truncatis, lunidis 



