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a Family of Coleopterous Insects. 
not materially disagree from Pentaplalarthrus and Paussus ; and 
as both Swederus and Donovan have given figures of the under- 
sides of their respective species, I have not thought it material 
to add a similar representation of the Javanese specimen. Of 
the habits of the species nothing is recorded. 
Species 1 . Ceraptekus latipes. Swederus. 
C. latus, depressus, “ piceus, elytris macula flavescente/’ api- 
cali majuscula, “ pedibus latissimis, tarsis intra tibias, re- 
tractilibus.” 
C. latipes. Swed. Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. §c. T. 9- 1788. p. 203. 
pi. 6. Jig. 1. Don. Ins. New Holland (sub Cerapt. Mac- 
Leaii). Schonh. Syn. Ins. vol. i. p. 3. part. 19- no. 1. 
Habitat, vid. infrit. 
Long. corp. e figura Swederi, lin. 6. Magn. nat. Silpha? 4-ma- 
culatae. Swed. 
Corpus latum, depressum. “ Caput nigrum subpunctatum. Oculi 
albescentes. Antenna ferrugineo-piceae, hirtae ; palpi fer- 
ruginei, parhm liirti. Thorax planiusculus, antiefe et pos- 
tick truncatus, lateribus dilatatis, rotundatis, ferrugineo- 
piceus, hirtus, postic^que utrinque foveolatus. Scutellum 
majusculum, triangulare, glabrum, nigro-piceum. Elytra 
glabra, punctis minutissimis excavatis, inordinatis, apice 
truncata,” singula “ macula versus apicem majuscula, su- 
tura, margineque postico, flavescentibus. Pectus et Abdo- 
men ferrugineo-picea, parilm hirta. Pedes piceo-ferruginei, 
femoribus tibiisque brevissimis, latissimis, compressis, ele- 
vato-punctatis, parilm hirtis, tibiis intra femora retractilibus. 
Tarsi angusti, filiformes, breves, ciliati, intra tibias retrahi 
et celari possunt.” 
Obs. 1 . Primum pedum par abfuit. 
Obs. 2. In delineatione insecti Swederi (fig. 1 & 2.) macula? ely- 
trorum 
