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Show 1866.] MR. F. P. PASCOE ON THE COLEOPTERA OF PENANG. 509 the two lateral teeth, the five middle nearly forming a quincunx, the two foremost of which are elevated and conical; scutellum elongate, triangular; elytra very irregular, longitudinally marked with irregular raised lines, with smaller transverse lines between them, and rather finely punctured, the brown principally forming three large patches on each; body beneath dark glossy chestnut-brown; legs yellowish, shining, the femora at the base, band on the clava, and apex of the tibiae brown ; antennae yellowish, the first six joints very glossy, the rest pubescent, opake, the apex of the third beneath, the fourth almost entirely beneath, and the sixth at the apex generally tufted with dark fulvous hairs. Length 4|-11 lines. DlSTENIINjE. NOEMIA. Noemia, Pascoe,Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2. iv. p. 111. NOEMTA FLAVICORNIS, Pascoe, I. c, pi. 22. f. 8. Found also by Mr. Wallace at Singapore and Sarawak. A specimen from the latter locality has a slender vertical spine on each side of the mesosternum, immediately above the coxa. NOEMIA CHALYBEATA. N. toto cyaneo-chalybeata; capite transversim sulcato et punctato; elytris apicibus bimucronatis. Entirely bright steel-blue, with an almost imperceptible greyish pile; head finely and closely punctured, behind the eyes the punctures occasionally contiguous, forming slight transverse grooves; prothorax covered with small closely crowded irregular punctures, the apex transversely striated; scutellum scutiform, concave, finely \ punctured; elytra strongly punctured at the base, gradually becoming impunctate posteriorly, the punctures in rows, the alternate rows separated by a raised line, the apices bimucronate, the outer mucro produced; body beneath glabrous; legs with a few scattered hairs; antennae nearly linear, about half as long again as the body. Length 10 lines. A fine species, very distinct, inter alia, from the others hitherto described in its mucronate elytra, a peculiarity which would put it out of the genus as M . J. Thomson has defined it. The above description is from one of Mr. Wallace's specimens taken at Sarawak. NECYDALIN^E. MERIONOZDA. Merionarda, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2. iv. p. 238. MERIONCEDA ACUTA. M . capite nigro ; prothorace luteo ; elytris longiusculis, testaceis, . extus nigro limbatis; antennis articulis penultimis et ante-penultimis flavidis, carteris nigris. |
