54 LIST OF CLERID-E. 



with numerous long greyish hairs. Under side of abdomen pale 

 ferruginous. Legs pale yellowish brown, with short grey hairs 

 and a few scattered bristles ; tarsi of a deeper brown. 

 Length 5 lines. 



Hab. Port Natal. Coll. Westwood. 



Stigmatium specuiare, n. s. 



Of a dull brownish colour, more or less covered with scattered 

 hairs and bristles. A largish patch of grey hairs common to 

 both elytra, and situated on the posterior part of elytra. Elytra 

 rather finely striated with punctured lines. Antennas, palpi, 

 and legs reddish. 



Length 3 lines. 



Hab. N". Holland (Port Essington). 



Stigmatium rufiventre Westw. 



Short, thick, black, covered with bristles. Head and prothorax, 

 under a glass, covered with minute punctures ; the middle of the 

 head slightly wider. Elytra, at the base towards the costa, of a 

 purplish chestnut, thickly covered with punctures, the punctures 

 arranged in strias and obliterated before the tip ; an irregular 

 band before the middle, and another before the tip, the tip also 

 itself with dull whitish bristles. Antennas slender, apical joints 

 scarcely thickened. Metasternum and abdomen beneath tes- 

 taceous. 



Length 4 lines. 

 Hab. Assam. 



Stigmatium elaphroides Westw. 



Antennas very long, with brown and narrow yellow rings. Thorax 

 considerably gibbous on the sides, with a deeply impressed 

 transverse line in front ; two oblong brown spots on the back of 

 the hind part. Head and thorax with many adpressed silky- 

 yellow hairs, and several long blackish bristles. Elytra above 

 covered, for the greater part, with adpressed silky yellow hairs ; 

 the apical half with several brown spots, which taken together 

 have the appearance of two twisted brown bands ; punctato- 

 striate, with scattered black bristles. 



Length 3 lines. 



Hab, Ceylon. R. Templeton, Esq. 



