COLLECTED IIS' DUTCH jS'EW GUINEA. 499 



C A R A B I D ^. 

 PlIKKOPSOPHUS AGNATUS. 



Pheropsuphus agnatus Chaud. Ami. Soc. Ent. Belg. xix. 1876, p. 43. 

 Mimika River ; 1 c? . 

 A common species found in China, Burma, Malay Archipelago, etc. 



Lebia sp. 

 Setakwa River ; 1. 



CaTASCOPUS WALLACE!. 



Calascopus ivallacei Saund. Trans. Etit. Soc. Lond. 1863, p. 462, pi. xvii. fig. 4. 

 Mimika River ; 1 d . 



Macrocentea quadkispinosa, 



Macrocentra quadrispinosa Chaxid. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1869, p. 206. 

 Setakwa River ; 2 6 {C. Boden Kloss). 



Lesticus politus. 



Lesticus politus Chaud. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xi. 1868, p. 156. 

 Utakwa Valley, 4000-5000 ft. ; 1 ? . 



A single specimen, which agrees with the rather insufficient description referred to 

 above, but is of a more brilliant metallic-green colour than the type. 



Staphylinid^. 



PfllLONTHUS SUPERBUS, Sp. n. 



(? . Lsete aureo-viridis,ore, antennis (articulis 4-7 exceptis),pedibus, elytrorum marginibus omnibus 

 (his leviter metallicis), segmentorumque abdominalium marginibus posticis flavis ; utriusque 

 elytri medio obscure purpureo, abdomine fusco, capita pronotoque nitidissimis, illo fortiter 

 baud crebre punctato, suico posteriori transverso profundo ; pronoto modice elongato, 

 lateribus retrorsum convergeutibus, angulis anticis fere rectis, posticis obtusis, disco utrinque 

 punctis sex longitudinaliter ordinatis ornato et subiiUter sed distincte punctulato ; elytris, 

 sterno, abdomine pedibusque flavo-pubescentibus. 



Long. 17 mm. 



Utakwa River; 1 c? . [Type of the species.) 



The species is evidently like P. auroscutatus Fauv., but with numerous points of 

 difference. The scutellum, as in that species, is dark, with close yellow pubescence, 

 but the pronotum is scarcely narrowed in front, its posterior angles are not rounded, 

 the large punctures on the disc are differently arranged, the first three and the last 



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