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brown, the borders of the scales darker ; li6ad ■with the ordinary sym- 

 metrical dark markings; the inner border of the seventh lonRitudinal 

 series of scales, counted on each side from the gastrosteges, darker, thus 

 forming two fine vei'tebral lines separated from each other by three rows 

 of scales; belly yellowish, each ventral shield with a brown spot near 

 the lateral edge, these spots more or less confluent into a dark streak, 

 separated from the dorsal brown colour by a pure yellowish streak of 

 equal width ; in one of the two specimens the ventrals become gradually 

 entirely brown towards the posterior part of the body, except the lateral 

 outer streak, which remains pure yellowish. Head and body 30i centim. ; 

 tail 58 millim. 



14. Dendeophis rnNCTULATtrs (Gray). 



15. Chrtsopelea ehodopleueon (Eeinw.). 



ATEACHIA. 



16. Eana paptja. Less. 



\.—0n the Coleopterous iKsrcTS collected lyMw. H. 0. Forbes in the 

 Timor-laut Islands. By Chas. 0. Wateehouse, F.Z.S. 



(From Proc. Zool. Soc. London, April 1884, p. 213, PI. XVI. 



The number of species of Coleoptera collected by Mr. Forbes in the 

 Timor-laut Islands is twenty-nine. Of these the following deserve 

 special notice on account of their geographical distribution :— 



1st. Diaphoetes rugosus, a new genus and species of Staph ylinidte, which 

 Mr. David Sharpe informs me he possesses from Java. 



2nd. Cyphogastra angulicollis (from Larat), a species of Buprestidee, only 

 previously known from Banda. 



3rd. Cyphogastra splendens (from Maru), a new species closely allied to 

 the preceding. 



4th. Archetypus rugosus, a new species. This genus of Longicorns, of 

 which there was only one species previously known, occurs in Waigiou, 

 Dorey, and Aru. 



5th. Pelargoderus rugosus. Another new Longicorn closely allied to P. 

 arouensis. ■ 



6tb. Nemophas forlesii. A third new Longicorn nearly allied ioN.grayi 

 from Amboina. 



Carabid^. 



Catascopus AMffiNUS, Chaud. 



Two specimens which may perhaps be merely varieties of this species. 

 They are, however, darker in colour than any in the British-Museum 

 collection, being of an obscure olive-eeneous, shading into dark purple at 

 the sides of the elytra. 



Hah. Maru. 



SlAPHTLTNIDa!. 



DiAPHCETES, Waterhouse. 



General characters of StapJiylinus, \mi with the smaller than is usual in 

 that genus. Labial palpi robust, with three visible joints ; the iirst and 

 second short, the apical one very large and cup-shaped. The maxilljB 



