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Show 1892.] COLEOPTERA FROM KINA BALU. 89 LAMPYRID^E. VESTA AURANTIACA. (Plate IV. fig. 9.) Vesta aurantiaca, Em. Oliv., Notes from Leyd. Mus. vol. viii. 1886, p. 192. Hab. Borneo, Kina Balu {Whitehead). M. Ernest Olivier has separated under this name specimens of a Vesta referred by me to Vesta urens, described by myself from Borneo (cf. Notes from Leyd. Mus. vol. v. 1883, p. 3). Three specimens collected by Mr. Whitehead on Kina Balu agree precisely with one of these specimens from Sumatra in m y possession. As the specimen which M . E. Olivier redescribes as the type of m y V. urens is now at Leyden, I have no means of forming an opinion on the specific distinction of V. aurantiaca, but it certainly occurs in Borneo, as these specimens prove. PYROCIELIA, Gorham. PYROCCELIA COLLARIS, n. sp. (Plate IV. fig. 7.) Oblonga, subparallela, opace nigro-fumosa; prothorace brevi, transverso, flavo, distincte at tenuiter carinato, margine antico late et alte reflexo, basirecte truncato, angulisposticis subrectis, nullo modo productis ; pygidio flavo. Long. 20 millim. Hab. Borneo, Kina Balu ( Whitehead). Head black, eyes moderate ; antennae long and thin for this genus, nearly as in P. fumigata, the joints much longer than wide and not serrate ; thorax almost semicircular, with the margins much reflexed, the diaphanous lunules not very translucent. Elytra entirely smoky black, two costules moderately distinct for about two thirds of the length of the elytra, the intermediate one very obsolete; scutellum, head, legs, and body entirely dull black, with the exception of the apical ventral segment and pygidium and of the two luminous patches. This insect is apparently allied to P. opaca, Bourg., described and figured in the ' Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova,' vol. ii. 1885, p. 349, t. v. f. 2, from which, however, it differs by the scutellum being black, by the entirely black legs and body, and by the absence of the pubescence, and (judging by the figure) by the thinner and not serrate antennae. One specimen. DIAPHANES, Motschulsky. D I A P H A N E S APICALIS, n. sp. (Plate IV. fig..8.) Breviter oblongus, subopacus, ochraceus ; prothorace brevi, margine antico elevato, lunulis duabus translucidis; disco antice tenuissime carinato; elytrorum apicibus, antennis,palpis, pedibus, abdomineque (apice excepto) nigris. Long. 14 millim. Hab. Borneo, Kina Balu (Whitehead). This species resembles rather closely Pyroccelia terminata, Gorh., but from the thin antennae and the size of the eyes and the clear |