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Lepidiota florens (n. sp.) : Olivaceo-grisea, sericea, subopaea, supra 

 nuda , elytrorum apice macula parva squamosa , subtus lateribus albido- 

 squamosa; elytris punctatis, lineis tribus laevibus. — Long. 37 — 43 tnill. 



Penang. 



This very pecnliar insect looks somewhat as if cnvered witli 

 paint. The antennae are dark reddish, with the basal Joint however 

 coloured like the body, they are 1 0-joiuted, the last 3 joints forming 

 a sraall club. Maxülary palpi with the last Joint elongate and rather 

 slender. Head rather broad and short, the clypeus slightly emarginate 

 in front, it is short and rather coarsely and closely punctured, the 

 rest of the head more sparingly but quite distinctly punctured. Thorax 

 very transverse , with the anterior angles acute and distinctly pro- 

 jecting forward;-', the hind ones obtuse and rounded, the base distinctly 

 produced in front of the scutellum, the surface somewhat sparingly 

 sprinkled with fine but distincfpunctures. Elytra somewhat sparingly 

 and finely punctured, with however three lines along each impunctate, 

 in the neighbourhood of these lines are a very few small white scales, 

 which however are so few in number that they are scarcely seen tili 

 looked for, near the apex of each is a small patch of scales. Under- 

 surface similar in colour to the upper, but clothed at the sides with 

 fine white ' scales , which are most dense on the sides of the thorax 

 and on the side-pieces of the mesosternum. The legs are concolorous 

 with the body, the hind tibiae are a good deal dilated at the ex- 

 tremity and their tarsi are short. 



I am not sure but that the smaller of the two specimens before 

 me may be a distinct species from the one described: it has the 

 upper surface coarsely and closely punctured and the tarsi are a little 

 longer; I do not know the locality of this individual. This very 

 peculiar species I judge has some points in common with Eucirrus 

 Mellyi, a species I have not seen. 



Lepidiota guttata (n. sp.) : Nigra , elytris rufescentibus . opaca, 

 capite thoraceque dense brevissime albido-setosis ; elytris sqtiamulis albidis 

 parvis adspersis, apice macula parva albida, subtus dense griseo-vestita. 

 — Long. 45 mill. 



Laos (Mouhot!). 



Antennae pitchy. Head blackish, dull, moderately closely punc- 

 tured, but the punctures concealed by a white scale placed in each 



