540 COLEOPTERA COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 



by specimens from Ceylon, Assam, Burma, Siam, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, 

 Borneo, and the Philippine Islands, but not hitherto from New Guinea, The female 

 has been described as a distinct species under the name C. anguliceps Fair m. This 

 identity was suspected by Mr. Gahan (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) ii. 1908, p. 202), 

 and an examination of the type of the latter in the Paris Museum enables me to 

 confirm it. 



Qi D E M E R I D iE. 



Sessinia stotherti. 



Sessinia stotherti Blair, Abstract P. Z. S. 1914, p. 20 (March 24). 



Fusco-testacea, elytris fuscis : protliorace elongato, postice angustato, dense punctato, punctis 

 disci ante medium majoribus et parcioribus ; elytris fuscis, subdlissiuae sat dense punctulatis 

 et sericeo-pubesceutibus, indistincte tricostatis. 

 Long. Q-lOg mm. 



Mimika River; 6. {Including the type of the species.) 



Approaches S. hicolor Fairm. in colour, but the head is concolorous with the thorax. 

 In structure it is nearer S. andrewsi Arrow, having the clypeus emarginate in front 

 and strongly impressed ; from both it differs in having the thorax almost glabrous, the 

 punctures distinct and dense, fine towards the sides and behind, but much coarser and 

 more distant in the front part of the disc. The elytra are much more finely punctate 

 than those of S. andrewsi, and the pubescence is exceedingly fine and silky, and 

 closely decumbent. The insect is named in honour of Mr. P. K. Stothert, who 

 materially assisted the Expedition. 



