new species of Cleridce. 407 



and thorax, the marks on the latter vary from a spot on 

 the front margin only to a broad central vitta, with the 

 whole front margin and sides black. The scutellum is of 

 the same colour as the base of the elytra, i. e. in those 

 specimens with yellow base it is red, in others dark. 

 The elytra are subpubescent and dull, the fti'st costa 

 represented only by a keel at the base. In darker 

 examples the body beneath is ftiscous, in lighter ones 

 yellow. 



Hah. — Ceram, Batchian, Kaioa (Wallace) ; coll. 

 Gorham ; Cambodia, Parry ; Batchian, Fry ; Common. 



Ohs. — Variable as this species is, I have no doubt care- 

 ful search and attention to habits, in the district in which 

 it occm's, will tend to midtiply rather than throw into one 

 the number of closely-allied species. The Teneri appear 

 to vary very much as Telephori do in Europe, some 

 species having the elytra sometimes testaceous and some- 

 times ftiscous, with intermediate varieties, while others are 

 constantly of one colom\ The spots on the head seem 

 very constant, as it is, for example, in our Telephorus 

 lividus, which, nevertheless, has both black and yellow 

 elytra. 



Te:ierus mindanaonicus, n. sp. 



T. andamanensi affinis; ferrugineus, capite supra, an- 

 tennis, thoracis, margin e antico, elytris, pedibus (femoribus 

 basi exceptis), abdominisque apice nigro-fuscis elytris 

 unicostatis. 



Long. 4 lin. 



Head black above, mouth, palpi and underside red, but 

 little, shining, finely punctured; antennas entirely dull 

 black. Thorax rusty-red, obsoletely but visibly punctured, 

 the middle joortion of the aiiterior margin black, the base 

 tuberculate before the scutellum, which is dark. Elyti'a 

 friscous-black, with a fine yelloAvish pubescence ; a single 

 costa terminating about a third of their length fi'om the 

 apex, and the suture moderately raised. Femora and 

 breast red, clouded at the knees and the latter on the 

 sides, abdomen with the first three segments yellow and 

 shining, the remainder black. 



Hub. — Mindanao (Semper); coll. Gorham. 



Tenerus difficilis, n. sj). 



Nigro-fuscus, capite thoraceque flavis, hac marginc 

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