406 Rev. H. S. Gorham's descriptions of 



little narrowed in front ; the usual transverse impression 

 in front is shallow, very finely and obsoletely punctured, 

 shining, red. Elytra dull leaden -black ; in larger ex- 

 amples (females ?) the margin at the base and the suture 

 are very narrowly red; the punctuation is exceedingly 

 close and fine, the costse only visible in rather rubbed 

 examples; body beneath, scuteUtmi and legs rusty-red, 

 tarsi sometimes fiiscous ; antennas black, basal joint some- 

 times fuscous. 



Hab. — Andaman Isles ; coll. Gorham and G. Lewis. 



Tenerus fuscipennis, n. sp. 



Ferrugineus, breviter pubescens, capite thoraceque ni- 

 gro-notatis, antennis basi excepto tarsisque nigro-fiiscis, 

 elytris fuscis vel nigro-fuscis obsolete bicostatis. 



Long. 3 — 5 hn. 



Very nearly allied to the preceding, of which perhaps it 

 is only a local variety, the distinctions which exist being 

 in themselves variable. The head has a black spot on the 

 crown, and the thorax one usually on the front margin 

 contiguous, so that when the insect is set straight they 

 appear to be one ; but the thoracic spot sometimes does 

 not touch the front margin, and is occasionally wanting. 

 The antenna have always two or three joints red at the 

 base. The elytra are fiiscous, or fuscous-black, clothed 

 with grey or yellow pubescence, the first costa sufficiently 

 visible at the base, the second visible in larger examples 

 only. Tarsi usually darker than in andamanensis, but 

 variable. 



Hah. — Ceram ; Amboina (Wallace) ; coU. Gorham ; 

 Cambodia, Parry. 



Tenerus discolor ^ n. sp. 



Flavo-testaceus, capite nigro-notato (interdum fere toto 

 nigro) thorace lateribus et disco plus minusve nigricanti- 

 bus, nunc linea mediana nunc macula antice tantum notato, 

 elytris nigro-fuscis interdum (feminse ?) basi testaceis, 

 cannula juxta scutellum instructis ; pedibus nigro-fiiscis, 

 femoribus basi testaceis ; antennis nigris. 



Long. 2^ — 4 lin. 



A very variable species, but to be separated from the 

 two preceding by its average smaller size, totally black 

 antennge and legs (excepting the base of the femora), and 

 by the usually much larger extent of black on the head 



