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Var. insularis, nov. 



Mr. Guy Babault has kindly sent me an example (there being 

 others I understand in his collection) which come8 from Java, 

 which has a narrow black longitudinal line behind the shoulder, 

 and in which the two parts of the hind fascia are quite detached 

 from the reddish area in front, so that they appear as transverse 

 whitish spots on a blue-black ground, which covers the apical 

 half of the elytra. In the Brussels Museum there are also three 

 examples of this form labelled " Semarang [Drescher) " * ; in these 

 the hind fascia is less widely separated from the red area in 

 front. 



Callistomimus dux, sp. n. (Plate I. fig. 10.) 



Length 7-0 mm. Width 2-60 mm. 



Black. Head dark blue, prothorax (above and beneath) dull 

 red with faint purplish reflections, basal two-fifths of elytra, brick- 

 red, the coloured area bulging in the middle and reaching to ludf- 

 way between base and apex, two transverse fascife (fiont one very 

 short, submarginal) a,nd extreme apex yellow-white, joint 1 of 

 antennae (rest wanting) and legs (exc. apex of femora) testaceous, 

 margin of elyti-a (exc. just below shoulders; infuscate. 



Head (2*40 mm. wide) convex, shiny, very coarsely punctate ; 

 vertex, middle of front (exc. for one or two punctures), ffiid 

 clypeus smooth, eyes prominent. Prothorax (2'60 mm. wide) 

 convex, very transverse, sides strongly rounded, much contracted 

 at extremities, but more so behind than iw front, hind angles in 

 the form of a small right-angled tooth, a little in. front of 

 apparent base; median line faint, basal fovese round and deep, 

 surface coarsely and confiuently punctate. Elytra oval, flat, 

 punctate-stria te, intervals nearly flat, finely punctate, (presumably) 

 pubescent ; front fascia from stria 5 to 8, merging in colour 

 of basal area, hind one moderately broad, obliqxie, from stria 1 

 to 9. Underside moderately and rather coarsely punctate, more 

 finely on ventral surface. 



Burma : Prome (&'. Q. Corbeit), 1 ex. J . Type in my collection. 



The vspecies is so widely diflTerent from all otheis known to me 

 that I have described it w^ith a view to making my note on the 

 Oriental species of the genus as complete as possible. The unique 

 example, however, is defective, especially in regard to the antennae, 

 tarsi, and buccal organs. 



Callistomimus nair, Maindr., var. nilgirinus, nov. 



I have in my collection an example of Maindron's species, 

 which I have had the opportunity of comparing with a typical 

 specimen kindly sent to me for examination by Mr. Guy Babault. 

 My specimen agrees almost exactly with Maindron's, which came 

 from Mahe on the Malabar Coast: the only difierence I detect is 

 in the elytral fasciae, which are narrower, the hind one being also 



* In reply to an enquiry of mine, Commandant Dupuis writes : " Etique te d'nn 

 envoi reiju du Musee de Sarawak (Borneo), sans autre precision, mais les insectes 

 provenaient tons, je crois, de recoltes faites dans la region." 



