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Show 152 MR. H. W. BATES ON COLEOPTERA [Feb. 20, Coleopterous fauna. The first and doubtless a true impression that it is essentially the same as that of New Guinea, and not at all inferior as regards the size and beauty of the species. Although the collector evidently made no search, but simply took the first things that came in his way, the collection, small as it is, contains several species equal to the finest of the New-Guinea fauna. Fam. CICINDELIDJE. CICINDELA D'URVILLEI, Dejean, Spec. Gen. des Coleop. v. p. 225. Three specimens, lt is recorded by Dejean as from New Guinea. THERATES LABIATUS, Fabricius, Syst. El. i. 232 ; Dej. Spec. Gen. i. 158. One specimen, of the bluer colour prevalent in New Guinea and the Aru Islands. The species is found throughout the Moluccas, and as far east as the Solomon Isles. TRICONDYLA APTERA, Olivier, Entom. ii. 33. 7, tab. 1. f. 1 ; Dej. Spec. Gen. ii. 438. One example, similar to others with which I have compared it from Mysol, Aru, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. Fam. CARABIDJE. PSEUDOZJENA ALTERNATA, n. sp. (Plate XXIV. fig. 2.) Piceo-niyra, obscura, ventro elytrisque nitidis; capite postice ruyuloso et modice punctato ; thorace omnino subtiliter transversim ruguloso ; elytris interstitiis alternis elevatis, costiformi-bus, politis. Long, b lin. Differs at once from all the other species (P. orientalis, obscura, and opaca) by its alternately raised and polished elytral interstices. The crown and nucha, as well as the thorax, are much more finely sculptured than in P. obscura from Borneo and Singapore. The intervals of the elytra between the raised lines are little less shining than the latter ; and the punctured striae are but slightly impressed and somewhat irregular. Fam. CUCUJIDJE. H E C T A R T H R U M BISTRIATUM, Castelnau, Hist. Nat. des Ins. ii. p. 384. One example, differing from the description above cited only in being of twice the dimensions. Castelnau's species is from Java. Fam. LAMELLICORNIA. PARASTASIA BIMACULATA, Montrouzier, Ann. Soc. Agr. Lyon, 2me serie, vii. p. 23 (1855). P. percheroni, id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1860, p. 271. This species, described by Montrouzier from Woodlark Island, not |