1893.] BEETLES OF THE FAMILY CLEBID.E. 581 



scarcely visibly punctate, with a very fine and short blackish pile. 

 Antennae paler than the thorax, but the legs and bodj^ beneath 

 entirely o£ the same colour as they are ; the scutellum also red. 

 The thorax has the base finely margined, the sides are quite merged 

 in the same curve as the base. The elytra are brilliant, ot a dark 

 metallic green, evenly punctured, with very fine and A^ery short 

 blackish pubescence. 



This insect appears to be allied to Allochotes hicolor, Westw. ; it 

 seems to differ from it in being larger, in the antennae being 

 inserted closer to the eyes (in Westwood's Hgui-e, t. ix. f. 1 «, they 

 are shown as inserted well in front of the excision), in the thorax not 

 being " f ulvo-setosus,'' and in the elytra not being " nigro-viridia.** 



Two specimens. 



SlSYKXOPlIORUS CHRYSOMELINUS. 



Allochotes cJiri/somelina, Westw. Ent. Mo. Mag. xiii. p. 242. 



A single specimen from the Ruby Mines, Burmah, may pertain 

 to this New-Gruinea species, but it seems hardly likely that it 

 would ; but the brief diagoosis, six Avoi-ds, in addition to the size, 

 24 lines, apply quite well to it, as they might to many other species. 

 VVe cannot be always going to Oxford to see types. 



SiSYRNOPHORUS FRYI. 



Niger, densius suhpruinoso-puhescens ; capite, antennis, pedihiis 

 ( feinoribus prcetet'niissis), prothoracis basi, elytrorumque fasciis 

 duahiis, externe ahhreviatis, jjosteriore lato, fuhns ; elytris 

 crehen'ime et suhtilissime pnnctatis. Long. 6'5 inillim. 

 Hah. Burmah, Euby Mines {Dohertg). 



Head entirely pale rusty red, shining ; eyes not large ; the 

 antennae as long as the head and thorax, the third and fourth 

 joints elongate, the fifth to the tenth quadrate but gradually 

 shorteniiig, the apical joint short. 



Texerus dohertyanus, n. sp. 



T. c}\2t\j\)3dO proximus et valde affinis ; ci/anevf^, nltidus ; palpis ad 

 basin, epistomate punctoqrte capitis jiu vis, antennis mgris, elj/tris 

 unicostatis. Long. 7 millini. 



IL(b. Perak (Dohertg). 



This species is so very much like T. chah/brevsi, Gorh. (Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 405), that it will be suflicient to point out the 

 differences. The elytra appear to be rather longer, and have each 

 a fine costa nearer to the suture than to the shoulder, terminating 

 about a third from the apex. The elytra are even more closely 

 punctured. The presence of a yellow spot on the head recalls a 

 specimen of T. cludyhcmis mentioned {he. cit.). 



1 have not hitherto had any reason to doubt that costation of 

 the elytra is a specific character in this genus. It is, however, 

 so very difficult to ascertain the sex, that this supposition must be 

 taken with some reserve. 



Peoc. Zool. Soc.— 1893, No. XXXIX. 39 



