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APPENDIX. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF COLEOPTERA COLLECTED BY Mr. JOHN WHITEHEAD ON 
KINA BALU, BORNEO. By the Rev. H. S. GORHAM, F.Z.S. 
The Coleoptera of which it is the purpose of this paper to give an account were collected by 
Mr. J. Whitehead during his residence from 1886 to the middle of 1887 in the neighbourhood of Kina 
Balu, and for the most part in the early months of those years. 
IIlSPID,E. 
Prionispa, Chapuis. 
Prionispa pulchra, n. sp. 
Rufa, supra metallico-viridis, prothorace elytrisque subopacis, rufo-marginatis, grosse punctatis, his 
tuberculis tribus conicis ; humeris costatis, et angulo posteriore spiniformi. Long. 6 millim. 
Hab. Borneo, Kina Balu. 
Body beneath and legs red ; head red except the crown ; antennae blackish, their basal joint some¬ 
times wholly red ; the front produced and with a carina between the bases of the antennae ; thorax sub- 
quadrate, coarsely punctured at the sides, ohsoletely so in the middle, green above and opaque, red beneath. 
Elytra with the shoulders elevated, with a double costate elevation in addition to the costate submarginal 
interstice, and three conical elevations, of which the middle is the larger and which on its exterior side is 
excavated, and metallic and not green in that part; the spine-like production of the hind angle is large 
and sharp and compressed horizontally, it is green in the middle but fiery copper at its apex ; the sutural 
angle is yellow, and the margins of the elytra external to the humeral callus are brownish with a coppery 
or purple reflexion. The apical margin is not toothed, but there are one or two minute serrations at the 
base of the spine. 
Hispopria, Baly. 
Hispopria grandis. 
Hispopria grandis , Baly, Cat. of Hisp. in Coll. Brit. Mus. 1858, p. 95. 
Kina Balu. 
Anisodera (Chevr.), Baly. 
Anisodera, sp. n. (a). 
Ivina Balu. A dull red species apparently belonging to Sect. A. b of Baly’s Catalogue. The species 
of Anisodera are so difficult to distinguish, that I do not feel disposed to describe this till I have further 
acquaintance with them. 
Anisodera, sp. n. (5). 
Kina Balu. r 
A single specimen of a smaller species with black legs and antennae, and .much rougher elytra and 
coarsely punctured thorax. 
Erotylid^e. 
Tetralanguria splendens, Wied. Kina Balu. 
Triplatoma attenuata. Kina Balu. 
Triplatoma attenuata, Crotch, Cist. Ent. 1876, p. 405. 
Nesites attenuata, Bedel, Rev. Triplatoma, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1882, p. 10, t. x. f. 5. 
Triplatoma gestroi. 
Triplatoma gestroi, Bedel, Z. c. p. 440, t. x. f. 4 ; Gorham, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 80, t. 18. f. 1. 
Encaustes marginalis. 
Encaustes marginalis, Crotch, Cist. Ent. 1876, p. 477. Kina Balu. 
