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Show 462 REV. H. S. GORHAM ON NEW COLEOPTERA [May 4 lineas duas conjunctls, maculam nlgram in medio includentlbus ornatls. Long. 8*5 millim. Hah. C H I N A , Ho-chan (Thery). This pretty insect may be best described by comparison with B.glbhosus (Gorham, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 647, t. 53. f. 4), from Japan. It is much less convex, the thorax is narrower and more deeply and thickly punctured. The antennae have a similarly lax and not much widened club. The pattern of the elytra is very distinct but bard to describe. The black part would, in short, if the middle arms were not divided, form what in heraldry is termed a "cross-crosslet," with a broad square in the middle. I hope, with the aid of the figure n o w given, this description will be sufficiently clear. Bolbomorphus seems closely allied to, and in China and Japan to take the place of, Eucteanus. The coarser eyes, lax and not much widened club of the antennas, which are also more coarsely built, perhaps, too, the absence of male characters, separate it. The latter, however, have not yet been found in the two smaller Eucteanl. 1 have great pleasure in dedicating this species to M . Andre Thery, of St. Charles par Philippeville, Algeria, who sent m e two examples. INDALMUS LUZONICUS, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 7.) Rufo-piceus, nitldus, glaber ; antennls, palpls, pedibus elytrisque nigro-plcels, his singulis maculis duabus subquadratls rufis. Long. 6*5 millim. o*. Mas: tihlls anticis Infra medium dente ohtuso parvo armatls. Hab. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, N.E. Luzon (Whitehead). This species is, by the male character, more nearly allied to /. kirbyanus than to i". angusticollis, not having any denticulation at all on the middle tibias. Head, thorax, and body beneath bright blood-red, inclining to be pitchy in parts, as at the base of the thorax; the latter is rather wider than long, formed as in 1. kirbyanus, but wider at the base, the sides sinuate, narrower at the front angles than behind, the disk smooth and impunctate, the basal sulci sharp and distinct. Tbe elytra are very minutely puuctured and have a sutural stria ; the spots are rather indefinite, the anterior one occupies the humerus and callus, but does not quite reach the base; the elytral margin is rather expanded from below the shoulder to the apex. The middle tibiae are bent inwards near their apices. T w o male specimens. PANOMOEA SUMATRENSIS, Gorham, Notes from Leyden Museum, x. p. 152 (1888). S U M A T R A , Merang (Doherty). One small example about five millimetres long. S I N K I P I S L A N D (Motira), one from Calcutta Museum. These both appear to be female examples. PANOMCEA INDIANA, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 5.) P. coccinellinae affinis, et statura cequalls, testacea, nitida; elytris subtillter, creberrlme, minute punctatls ; prothorace brevi, valde |