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Show 1893.] BEETLES OF THE FAMILY: CLERID.E. 571 CALLIMERUS MYSTICUS, n. sp. C. amabili, Gorh., proxime affinis: nigro-cceruleus, griseo-squamosus ; prothorace, linea mediana et lobis lateralibus denu-datis, Icevibus ; elytris nigris, griseo-squamosis, macula elongata suturali communi, lateribus maculis quasi quatuor prcebentibus nigris, prima ad punctum parvulum juxta scutellum producta, tertia in fasciam integram ad suturam angustam provectam, quarta retrorsum obliqua. Pedibus flavis, femoribus posticis apicibus extus nigris. Long. 11 millim. Hab. Borneo, Pengaron (Boherty). It will be sufficient to compare this insect with C. amabilis, Gorh. The prothorax is smooth, not punctured. The scales of the upperside are more greenish grey; the pattern is very different, very difficult to describe. The base of the elytra, a plagia running obliquely outward from the scutellum, and a fascia-like spot form by their union an intricate device in the basal half; while an oblique fascia, triangular in shape, and a sutural line, widening at the apex, form a sort of 7 on the left elytron, reversed of course, on the right, somewhat similar to the mark in O. amabilis and C. fece, but with the head more oblique. The single specimen appears to be a male, and has the apical dorsal segment formed of two wide laciniae of fulvous colour. CALLIMERUS BELLUS, n. sp. Nigro-cceruleus; antennis, palpis pedibusque testaceis; capitis fronte, prothoracis margine antico et postico, elytrorum basi, lunula humerum cingente, fascia pone medium cum lunula per lineam rectam conjuncta, sutura postice in fasciam obliquam desinente, albo-squamosis. Capite crebre obsolete, prothorace fortiter parcius, elytris fortiter seriatim punctatis. Long. millim. Hab. Borneo, Pengaron (Boherty). The pattern of this Callimerus is difficult to describe, but very neatly defined. The thorax is widely margined with white scales before and behind, leaving the middle and the sides denuded and shining, but the bands of scales nearly meet round the sides ; the colour of the parts not covered with scales is dark steel-blue ; on the elytra are eight area? thus denuded, viz. two humeral, then three oblong areae in a row transversely, two of them being lateral and one common on the suture, then two lateral, then a small round apical spot. These are all neatly defined by the white lines of scales. The elytra in some examples appear nearly black; the punctures are large, the rows not very distinct, and quite confused at the sides and near the apex. The underside is clothed in the manner usual in this section of the genus, densely at the sides, with white scales. This is a very beautiful species ; it is allied to the following (C. niveus), and both remind me of C. ornatus, from Sumatra (Notes from Leyden Mus. iv. 110). |