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Show 1893.] BEETLES O F T H E F A M I L Y CLERIDJE. 581 scarcely visibly punctate, with a very fine and short blackish pile. Antennae paler than the thorax, but the legs and body beneath entirely of tbe same colour as they are; the scutellum also red. The thorax has the base finely margined, the sides are quite merged in the same curve as the base. The elytra are brilliant, of a dark metallic green, evenly punctured, with very fine and very short blackish pubescence. This insect appears to be allied to Allochotes bicolor, Westw.; it seems to differ from it in being larger, in the antennae being inserted closer to the eyes (in Westwood's figure, t. ix. f. 1 a, they are shown as inserted well in front of the excision), in the thorax not being " fulvo-setosus,'' and in the elytra not being '•' nigro-viridia." Tw*o specimens. SISYRNOPHORUS CHRYSOMELINUS. Allochotes chrysomelina, Westw. Ent. M o . Mag. xiii. p. 242. A single specimen from the Ruby Mines, Burmah, may pertain to this New-Guinea species, but it seems hardly likely that it would; but the brief diagnosis, six words, in addition to the size, 2| lines, apply quite well to it, as they might to many other species. We cannot be always going to Oxford to see types. SISYRNOPHORUS FRYI. Niger, densius subpruinoso-pubescens ; capite, antennis, pedibus (femoribus prcetei-missis), prothoracis basi, elytrorumque fasciis duabus, externe abbreviatis, posteriore lato, fulvis; elytris creherrime et suhtilissime punctatis. Long. 6*5 millim. Hab. Burmah, Ruby Mines (Boherty). Head entirely pale rusty red, shining; eyes not large; the antennae as long as the head and thorax, the third and fourth joints elongate, the fifth to the tenth quadrate but gradually shortening, the apical joint short. TENERUS DOHERTYANUS, n. sp. T. chalybaeo proximus et vcdde affinis ; cyaneus, nitidus ; palqris basin, epistomate punctoque capitis flavis, antennis nigris, elgtris unicostatis. Long. 7 millim. Hab. Perak (Boherty). This species is so very much like T. chalybceus, Gorh. (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 405), that it will be sufficient to point out the differences. The elytra appear to be rather longer, and have each a fine costa nearer to the suture than to the shoulder, terminating about a third from the apex. The elytra are even more closely punctured. The presence of a yellow spot on the head recalls a specimen of T. chalybceus mentioned (loc. cit.). I have not hitherto had any reason to doubt that costation of the elytra is a specific character in this genus. It is, however, so very difficult to ascertain the sex, that this supposition must be taken with some reserve. PROC. ZOOL. Soc.-1893, No. XXXIX. 39 |