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broad as long, the anterior and posterior margins curved, the 

 sides straight, the anterior and posterior angles oblique, the 

 surface extremely minutely and sparingly punctured, scutellum 

 elongate, pointed, elytra convex, strongly and closely punctured, 

 especially so near the suture, the lateral margin accompanied 

 by a row of deep punctures, the underside, with the exception 

 of that of the thorax, black. 



Hab. Si-Oban. 



This species agrees entirely with the other ones forming this 

 genus in general shape and structure and also in the thickened 

 and curved third joint of the antennae in the male; it differs 

 from any of its allies in its system of coloration, in the female, 

 the antennae are simple. 



25. Candezea mentaweiensis, sp. n. — Flavous, the head and 

 thorax reddish-fulvous, the latter very finely punctured, elytra 

 extremely closely and finely punctured, flavous, each with two 

 very obscure fuscous spots below the middle. 



Length 2 1 / a lines. 



Head impunctate, the frontal tubercles small but distinct, eyes 

 large, the antennae extending to the middle of the elytra, fla- 

 vous, the apical joints stained with fuscous at the apex, the 

 second and third joints very small, thorax one half broader than 

 long, the sides straight, the anterior angles oblique, the poste- 

 rior margin rounded, each angle furnished with a single seta, 

 surface scarcely perceptibly punctured, reddish-fulvous, scutellum 

 flavous, elytra convex, scarcely more strongly punctured than 

 the thorax, pale flavous, with two very obscure fuscous spots 

 placed obliquely transverse near the apex, elytral epipleurae 

 broad at the base, very narrow below the middle, but distinct, 

 below and the legs flavous, the metatarsus of the posterior legs 

 very long. 



Hab. Sipora. 



C. mentaweiensis is closely allied to C. Feae, Jac. from Sumatra 

 but in that species, the thorax is less transversely shaped and 

 more distinctly punctured, the antennae are more elongate and 

 entirely flavous, and the elytra have the apex stained with fulvous. 



