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Show 1889.] REV. H . S. G O R H A M O N N E W EROTYLID.E. 613 liver, fig. 17 ca.c, and, from fig. 15, we see that the membrane which separates tins space from the peritoneal cavity passes partly internally to the kidneys and partly outside them, so that it represents more than the peritoneum. Also, from fig. 14, that it is not correct to say that tbe membrane referred to excludes the kidneys from the peritoneal cavity, in which lie the genital glands, for the posterior portion of the kidney lies distinctly within this latter cavity. 4. Descriptions of n e w Species of the Coleopterous Family Erotylidce, By Rev. H . S. G O R H A M , F.Z.S. [Eeceived November 11, 1889.] (Plate LXI.) The following descriptions are to some extent supplementary to my paper on the Erotylidae read before the Society in 1883 (see P. Z. S. 1883, p. 75). The types are either in m y own collection or in that of Mr. E. Armitage, R.A.; a few of the specimens are also contained in the Cambridge collection formed by the late Mr. Crotch, whose M S. name I have retained for the first species here described; it was, however, placed in Episcapha, the specimen being hardly well enough preserved for critical examination. 1. TRIPLATOMA VARIA, sp. nov. (Plate LXI. fig. 1.) Elongata, subparallela, nigra, rufo-maculata, subnitida; vertice, prothoraceis utrinque macula arcuata ; elytris fasciis tribus dentatis, prima per ramum cum basi conjuncta rufis; corpore subtus rufo piceoque variegato, femoribus infra rufo-maculatis. Long. 17 millim. Hab. Malacca, Penang (coll. Crotch and E. Armitage). Head closely but distinctly punctured ; antennae with the third joint not much enlarged at the tip, the fourth to the eighth joints longer than broad. The thorax transverse, very finely and thickly punctured, smooth and shining, the front angles a little prominent, the sides almost straight, the front as wide as the base; hind angles rectangular. Elytra smooth, with fine serially punctured strise and flat interstices, or very obsoletely subsulcate. The red markings are a broad spot on vertex of the head, a mark somewhat like a Hebrew letter Gaph on each side of the thorax, the open side outwards, one corner reaching the front angle, the other prolonged towards the base. On the elytra are three irregular fasciae, much as in T. gestroi, Bedel, but less dentate; the first with a ramus to the base forms a sort of ring enclosing the shoulder, except on the costal side, the second arcuate, the third is near the apex ; none of them approach nearer the suture than the first stria. The epipleurse have a spot at the base, and one on each side of the metasternum and of each ventral segment are red. T. varia is allied to, but amply distinct from, T. gestroi; it is smaller, smoother, the thorax is shorter, but it will fall into the |
