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anterior angles of the eyes and curving a little backward. The larvse of 

 Luteva are very similar to the imagines of Ploearia and might easily 

 be confounded with them. They are, however, distinguished — apart from 

 the two-jointed middle and hind tarsi — by the structure of the anterior 

 trochanters. These are in Luteva (both larvae and imagines) either unarmed 

 or armed with two very slender bristle-like spines, whereas they in Ploe- 

 aria always are produced downward into one stout triangular tooth with 

 broad base. From Distant's figure of his Ploearia Greeni there can in 

 my opinion be no doubt that this insect is not a Ploearia at all, but the 

 larva of a Luteva, very probably that of the species recorded by Distant as 

 L. malayana, which was found at the same locality, Peradeniya in Ceylon. 



2. Gardena Semperi Dohrn. 



Banjoewangi (Mc Gr.). 



3. Gardena brevicollis Stâl. 



Samarang (J.); Banjoewangi (Mc G.). 

 This species was previously known only from Philippine Islands. 



N. B. — That the recently described G. seychellensis Dist. is founded 

 on a larva is clear from the figure. 



4. Gomesius insaturabilis n. sp. 



Caput totum fuscum vel superne ochraceum, fusco-variegatum, oculis 

 majusculis, fortiter prominulis et granulatis, oculo in mare spatio inter- 

 oculari superiore plus quam dimidio angustiore ses spatio interoculari 

 inferiore dimidio latiore, parte anteoculari quam postoculari longiore, ab 

 oculis ad antennas levissime angustata, ante antennas antrorsum et paullo 

 deorsum conico-producta, impressione transversa interoculari curvata, parte 

 postoculari e supero visa basin versus leviter angustata, medio constricta, 

 ad ipsam basin fortius coarctata, articulis duobus primis antennarum 

 maris erecte pilosis, primo apicem scutelli sat longe superante et quam 

 secundo duobus trientibus longiore, ochraceo, annulis numerosis fuscis 

 ornato, secundo albido, apice nigro (art. duo ultimi desunt), rostro pallide 

 ochraceo, articulis duobus primis saepe fuscis, primo medium partis an- 

 teocularis paullum superante, secundo primo subaeque longo, tertio duobus 

 primis unitis parum breviore. Pronotum capite minus quam duplo lon- 

 gius, ochraceum, parce minute fusco-irroratum ; mesonotum pronoto fere 

 quarta parte brevius, obscure ochraceum, marginibus lateralibus et lineis 

 quattuor percurrentibus albidis, his lineis utrinque fusco-limbatis. Scutel- 

 lum fusco-ochraceum, longitudinaliter bicarinatum. Pectus fuscum vel 

 fusco-ochraceum, acetabulis anticis in spinam antrorsum productis, meso- 



