598 On Aquatic Carnivorous Coleoptera or Dytiscide. 
The first of the elytral stria is remote from the suture, it and the third reach 
nearly to the base but are abbreviated a good distance from the apex, the second 
does not reach to the base; these strize are very fine and have some distant punc- 
tures placed on their course, the fourth (or external) stria is more broken-up than 
the others, and is remote from the third one. In this species the extremity of the 
posterior femora is rounded, so that both the front and hind angles are rounded. 
The only individual I have seen is a female. 
Abyssinia, (Raffray, in Mus. civ. Genoa). 716. 
I. 56.—Genus LACCONECTUS. 
Coxal lines quite obliterated ; coxal lobes without incission, upper surface 
without any sculpture except the three series of punctures ; prothorax with a fine 
lateral margin. 
The two species are from the East Indian region, and are small insects, having 
much the appearance of the Laccophili. 
904. Lacconectus basalis, n. sp.—Late ovalis, fere depressus, politus, mitidus, 
testaceus, vertice utrinque ad oculos fusco, elytris vage infuscatis, fascia basall 
testacea, basi summo lateribusque fuscis, vitta fusca laterali in medio a macula 
testacea subinterrupta; elytris seriebus subtilibus punctorum tribus; corpore subtus 
per-leevigato, nitido ; antennis fere elongatis. Long. 54, lat. 33 m.m. 
This species has the appearance of a broad depressed Laccophilus. The surface 
is very smooth and shining; the series on the elytra consist of fine very closely 
placed punctures, between the first and second of these series there is a row of 
distant punctures ; the points forming the third or outer series are not nearly so 
dense as those of the other two serits. The male differs from the female only by 
having the basal joints of the front and middle tarsi a little incrassate. 
Siam, Cambodia. 718. 
905. Lacconectus fulvescens, Motsch., M.C.—Ovalis, sat latus, nitidissimus, 
castaneo-testaceus, antennis pedibusque testaccis; elytris seriebus subtilissimis 
punctorum duabus; antennis haud elongatis. Long. 4, lat. 25 m.m. 
Very closely allied to Lacconectus basalis, but much smaller, without anv 
distinct markings, and with the punctures of the elytra finer ; the outer series of 
punctures is therefore scarcely to be detected. ‘he male characters are much the 
same as in Lacconectus basalis. 
India, orientalis. 719. 
