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A NJTUKALIST'S WANDEBINQB 



brown, the borders of the scales durker; he^d with the ordinary sym- 

 metrical dark markings the inner Iwrder of tho RCTCiith longitudinal 

 series of scales, counted on each side from tho gastrost^iges, darker, thus 

 forming two fine verteliral line* so|(aratcd from each other hy three rows 

 of scales; belly yellowish, each ventral shield with a brown spot near 

 the lateral edge, thcfo Bi>ots more or less confliirmt into a dark strofik, 

 sepamted from tho dorsal brown colour hy a pure yellowish streak of 

 eqnal width; in one of the two spedmens the ventrais liecome gradually 

 entirely brown towards the posterior part of tlie body, except the lateral 

 out«r streak, which remains pure yellowish. Head and body 30i centim. ; 

 tail 58 mlllim. 



14. Bendrophis FCrNCTiTLATua (Gray), 



15. Chkysopelea bhodopleuron (Reinw.). 



Batraohia, 



16. Rait A pa^tta. Less. 



V — On the CoLEOFTEBOUS iHSnCTS ro??er/erf fty Ikta. H. 0. FoRBES fw th« 

 Timor-lmtt Jsianfln. By Chas. 0, Watebbodbi, F^.S. 



(From Proc. Zoo!. Soc; London, Apri! 1884, p. 213, PI, XYT.) 



The number of species of Coleoptem collected liy Mr. Forljcs in the 

 Timor-laut Islands is tweiitj--nine. Of these the following deserve 

 special notice on account of their geographical distribution 



1st. Diaphcetes rttgom$, a new genus and species of Staphylinidee, which 

 Mr. David Sharpe informs me he poEsesees from Java, 



2nd. Cypho^astra angnlirunis (from Laiat), a Species of Bnprestidie, only 

 preTionsly known from Ikinda. 



3rd. Cyphogmtra ^Imdetxs (from Maru), a new species closely allied to 

 the prect^iing. 



4th. ArrhetypttR rngosus, a new species. This genns of Longicoms, of 

 which there was only one species previously known^ occurs in Waigiou, 

 Dorey, and Aru, 



5tb. Felargodeni4 rugo$tis. Another new Ijongicom closely allied to P, 

 arottensis, 



6th. KenK^hm/arhesit, A tbird new Longicom nearly allied to N. grayi 

 from Amboina. 



CAEABlBiS. 



OATAiOOFiTS AiHENpe, CHiaiid. 



Two specimens which may perhaps he merely Tarietdes of this s]ieei€S^ 

 They are, however, darker in colour than any in tlie British-MuReum 

 collection, htmg of an obscure olive-JEDCOUS, shading into dark purple at 

 the sides of the elytra. 



Hak Mara. 



DiArncETES, WaterhouBe, 



General characters of Stfiphylinuii,hvii with the Bmaller than is usual in 

 that genua Labial palpi robust, with three visible joints : the first and 

 second short, the apical one vei^ large and cup-shaped, Tlie maxill® 



