204 Mr. G. J. Arrow on 



remaining black. As this seems to be a local form, M. 

 Oberthltr having received three similar specimens from 

 Mt. Kodeicanel, it may be useful to name it var. posticalis. 



Phcropsophus assamensis, Chaud., placed by him just 

 before P. bimaculatus, is the West African P. palmarum. 

 I have been enabled to examine the type, which only owes 

 its description to the mistake as to its locality. 



P. stenoderuSy Chaud., of which I have examined a good 

 many specimens in the British Museum and the Hope 

 Collection at Oxford, is allied to P. bimaculatus, L., 

 although it must be referred to the " maclagascariensis" 

 section of Chaudoir. It is intermediate in coloration 

 between P. bimaculatus and P. marginalis, but in form is 

 nearer to the first, which it resembles also in the absence 

 of a yellow lateral margin to the elytra and the less 

 irregular median patches (which however are much smaller 

 than in that species), while the straight-sided thorax and 

 the black mark upon the head are shaped as in the 

 second. The humeral spots are large and rounded and 

 the apical margin is rather indefinite. 



P. curtus, sp. n. (Plate IX, fig. 3.) 



Haud elongatus, niger, capite linea tenui circum oculos, linea 

 transversa frontali, clypei pimctis duobus, prothoracis macula parva 

 laterali intra marginem, elytrorum macula parva humerali, fascia 

 media angusta dentata ad epipleuras attingente, his plus minusve, 

 apice extremo, costarumque extremitatibus, flavis ; corpore subtus, 

 capite excepto, infuscato, pedibus cum coxis testaceis, genubus brun- 

 neis ; capite brevi, prothorace paulo latiore quam longitudinem, 

 lateribus antice modice curvato-ampliato, elytris sat latis, hunieris 

 prominentibus, lateribus fere parallelis. Long. 13-15 m.m. 



Hob. S. India, Malabar ; Kanara (Andrewes Coll.). 



This is allied to P. fuscicollis, Dej., but is smaller and 

 rather less elongate. It is very similar to that species in 

 coloration, but the yellow epi pleurae and the peculiar mark- 

 ing of the head easily distinguish it. The latter is black upon 

 its upper surface, with the exception of narrow pale rings 

 round the eyes meeting in a transverse line behind the 

 antennas, two small spots on the clypeus and the greater 

 part of the mouth organs. 



I have seen six specimens of the insect. 



P. occipitalis, McLeay, regarded by Chaudoir as belong- 

 ing to P.javanus, Dej., and of which the type is in the 



