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name  Kochii  to  this  Ja  van  specimen  in  the  British  Museum,  which 
he  considered  to  be  specifically  identical  with  the  type  of  the  species 
in  the  Museum  at  Berlin. 
Now  C.  Koch,  having  before  him  one  of  Brandt's  types,  can  not 
as  Dr.  Kaksch  points  out,  have  made  the  mistake  with  which  he 
was  accredited.  It  follows,  therefore,  that  the  type  of  Kochii  (Butler) 
is  also  the  type  of  punctatum  (Brandt),  whatever  be  the  identity  of 
the  specimen  in  the  British  Museum  to  which  the  name  Kochii  was 
attached.  As  a  matter  of  fact  this  specimen  is  wholly  different  from 
specimens  of  punctatum  and  belongs  to  the  species  that  1  have  just  named. 
Like  all  the  Javan  forms  that  have  been  described  since  Brandt's 
time  this  new  species  may  or  may  not  be  identical  with  Sphaero- 
pœus  insignis  -  a  form  far  too  briefly  characterised  to  be  recog- 
nisable without  en  examination  of  the  type. 
Of  all  the  species  known  to  me  it  comes  nearest  to  Z.  igno- 
bilis  of  Butler  and  Z.  glabrata  of  Newport.  In  the  former  howe- 
ver the  lamina  of  the  Its  tergite  rises  in  front  much  more  gradually 
and  the  margin  of  it  is  evenly  thickened  throughout  ;  moreover  the 
internal  surface  of  the  movable  dactylus  of  the  2^  pair  of  copulatory 
feet  is  provided  with  a  very  large  rounded  tooth-like  prominence  - 
this  is  absent  in  Z.  nigriceps.  -  In  Z.  glabrata  (=  bicollis,  Karsch) 
the  lamina  of  the  first  tergite  is  as  large  as  in  Z.  nigriceps,  but  its 
margin  is  not  thickened  and  upturned  opposite  the  level  of  the  eye; 
the  immovable  dactylus  of  the  first  pair  of  copulatory  feet  is  much 
shorter  and  smaller  than  the  movable  dactylus  and  the  movable  dactylus 
of  the  second  pair  differs  from  that  of  Z.  nigriceps  in  the  same  par- 
ticulars as  does  this  segment  in  Z.  ignobilis. 
The  further  affinities  of  these  and  other  Javan  forms  will  be  treated 
of  in  my  forthcoming  revision  of  the  group. 
29.  Zephronia  rufipes  sp.  n. 
Java:  Tjibodas.  One  specimen. 
Colour  of  body  a  very  deep  chestnut  brown,  head  redder,  antennae 
and  legs  yellowish  read. 
Head  thickly  and  coarsely  punctured  as  in  Z.  nigriceps.  The  dorsal 
plates  more  densely  sculptured  than  in  Z.  nigriceps,  the  sculpturing 
being  composed  of  minute  punctures  and  striae  and  much  resembling 
the  appearance  of  a  pig-  skin  saddle  ;  a  few  larger  punctures  are  scat- 
