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Antennae elongate, a little thickened towards the apex, the first four joints 

 and the last testaceous yellow, the rest black. Legs reddish-testaceous. Length 

 (5-0o mm. Head rather large, transverse, deeply inserted in the thorax, eyes 

 large ; colour yellowish, black on the temples, and occasionally the disc with 

 one or two pitchy spots ; puncturation very fine and moderately close ; pubes- 

 cence fine and yellow. Antennae with the Ist and 3rd joints of equal length 

 tlie 2nd shorter than these, the 4th longer than the 3rd, the 5th, 6th, and 7th 

 gradually becoming shorter, the 8th, 9th, and 10th much narrower at the base, 

 about as long as broad, the 11th oval, about as long as, but narrower than, the 

 10th. Thorax convex, transverse, widest at the base, the sides eyenly rounded 

 and narrowed to the produced acute anterior angles ; the anterior border 

 eniarginate ; the posterior angles briefly rounded, the base feebly bisinuate ; 

 the colour as previously indicated; puncturation very fine and rather close; 

 pubjscence yellowish. Scutellum small, reddish, with three or tour punctures. 

 Elytra transverse, scarcely as long or as broad as the thorax, obliquely ti'uiicate 

 at the apex ; the suture broadly, aud the central part of the base more narrowl}, 

 reddish-testaceous, the rest of the surface, including the humeral angles, black, 

 so that a reddish T-shaped pattern is formed ; puncturation fine and rather 

 asperate, closer than that of the thorax ; the pubescence similar to that of the 

 fore-parts ; the sides furnished with eight rather long black setae. Abdomen 

 pointed, and of the colour previously indicated, finely and moderately closely 

 punctured, rather more sparingly on the last two segments ; the pubescence 

 moderately close, fine, and yellow ; the sides aud apex furnished with long 

 black setae. Under surface entirely reddish-testaceous, with the exception of 

 the last four >'egments which are black. 



(S . Eighth dorsal segment truncate; 6th ventral segment with a deep, 

 broad, triangular excision, the apex of which is rounded. 



$. Eighth dorsal segment divided by three very narrow excisions into 

 four blunt digitiform processes, of which the central pair are a little longer 

 than the lateral. 



I£ab. BoENEO, Quop, W. Sara\vak {G. E. Bryant). 



Conosoma later ale, n. sp. 



Rather robust, convex, black ; elytra transverse, the sides setose ; the base 

 of the thorax narrowly, the base (except externally), the suture and apical 

 margins narrowly of the elytra, and the posterior margins of the abdominal 

 segments narrowly, dull red ; antennae short, reddish-testaceous, the legs 

 similarly coloured ; abdomen clothed with golden pubescence. Length 3 mm. 

 (in retracted example). Rather more convex than C. hreve Fauv., with shorter 

 and broader thorax, much shorter antennae, and difierent coloration. Head 

 exceedingly finely and rather sparingly punctured. Antennae short, the 2nd, 

 3rd, and 4th joints of about equal length, the 5th a little shorter, the 6th and 

 7th a little longer than broad, the 8th, 9th, and 10th slightly transverse, the 

 11th oval, pointed. Thorax exceedingly finely and not very closely punctured ; 

 pubescence fine, golden. Elytra of the length of the thorax, transverse, the 

 base (except the external angles), and the suture and apical margins narrowly, 

 dull red ; puncturation coai-ser and closer than that of the thorax ; pubescence 



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