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MISTHOSIMA. 
The species described below may be referred I think to this 
genus which was founded by Mr. Pascoe to include two insects 
from Borneo. It agrees very well with the characters attributed 
to the genus by its author and if not a true congener of the 
already described speeies must represent a closely allied new 
genus Vo espere by characters not mentioned in the diag- 
osis. e only discrepancies are slight, consisting in the second 
antennal joint being scarcely shorter than the basal one — the 
metasternum not quite so short as in Areocerus (as, ing to 
prenete it should “a but these alone here jussi the 
formation of a new er 
M. BE. sp. n Oblon nga; picea, en basi labro 
femoribus ations Bas. pu sa fusca vestita, hac 
pube cinerea concinne ma cula atim dbi du antennarum 
articulo 2° quam 5 vix breviori; supra co nfertim aspere 
subtiliter (in elytris quam alibi paullo minus subtiliter) 
punctulata ; elytris subtilissime striatis; pube in corpore 
subtu 9s iue m in corpore supra magis cinerea. Long., lil; 
lat., 
The iiy or whitish pubescence of the upper surface is dis- 
tributed as follows :—On the head it predominates (the fuscous. 
colour forming two icdaleaaieal lines d in front and behiad: f 
on the prothorax it is most conspicuous on the sides and middle 
line; on the elytra it forms numerous diari clearly defined evenly 
distributed spots, three vato larger placed transversely 
across the base, and à common much larger er cae; patch (its. 
apex pointing EU about the middle of the sut 
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DOTICUS. : 
This genus is unsatisfactorily close to Ar@ocerus. Its author 
(Mr, Pascoe) says that it differs from Ar@ocerus by the greater 
length of its front legs, the e greater width of its tarsi and the 
deeper insertion of the third tarsal joint in thesecond. To this it 
may be added that (so far as my experience gi oes) the. species vii 
me legs of Doticus are considerably larger jeg any with the legs 
Argocerus. Nevertheless I am of opinion that the generic 
Doticus, ‘but com ss ar to Ethneca, with which 
Doticus has so little connection that it would be En to find. two 
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