die Arien der Coleopteren-Gaüung Brahmina Bl. 123 



subtus valde inflatum; pectore subpiloso, obsolete punctato; abdomine 

 glabro, polito, punctis aliquot dispersis impresso. Pedes mediocres, 

 picei, subhirsuti; tarsis elongatis, tenuibus, ferrugineis, unguiculis 

 apice bifidis. Unicum specimen in Miiseo Faldermanni. E Mongolia, 

 misit Dr. Turczaninoff. 



Lachnosterna i^umila Sharp. 

 Notes from the Leyden Museum. Vol. III, 1881, p. 225. 



Subohlonga, angustida, rufescens vel picescens, antennis p^- 

 dihusque riifis^ fortiter fere dense punctata, haud opaca; pectore 

 nudo. — Long. 10 — 11, lat. 4^3 — öVs mm. . (Sumatra.) 



Antennae 10-jointed, but with the 3rd, 4th and 5th joints an- 

 chylosed, the 6th and 7th without distinct prolongations, the club 

 rather small. Head small, the clypeus rather deeply emarginate in 

 front, with the lateral angles completely rounded, the surface coarsely 

 and densely punctate, a little shining, the puuctures on the clypeus 

 not quite so dense as on the hinder part; the vertex indistinctly 

 angulate. Thorax strongly transversa, its greatest width about the 

 middle, the bind angles obtuse but distinct, the front angles nearly 

 rectangular, slightly obtuse, very little produced, the lateral margin 

 fine. with two or three very minute indistinct interruptions in front 

 of the middle, the surface coarsely and closely punctured, but the 

 interstices shining. Scutellum with a very few punctures. Elytra 

 coarsely and rather closely punctate, so that the costae can, with 

 the exception of the sutural one, scarcely be detected. Pygidium 

 coarsely and closely punctured. Undersurface without pubescence, 

 the breast punctate, its sides opaque, the middle shining; ventral 

 Segments equally but soraewhat distantly punctured, opaque at the 

 sides, shining in the middle. Spurs of bind tarsi rather slender, 

 acuminate. 



On specimen from Silago (July 1877), and three specimens from 

 the district of Ptawas: two in May 1878, the third (from Soeroelangoen) 

 in July of the same year. — This species is found also in Java. The 

 specimens from Sumatra do not differ in any important respect from 

 those from Java. The mentum in this species is small, and is very 

 deeply impressed along the middle; the tooth of the claws is very 

 large and curved, it is indeed even larger than the apical portion of 

 the clawi) to which it is similar in form. RMzotrogus eooactus 



i) Dieses Merkmal, auf welches hier in ausgezeichneter Weise auf- 

 merksam gemacht wurde, ist der ganzen Gattung mehr oder weniger 

 eigen, ßrsk. 



