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sum carinata; prothorace latitudine paulo lonyiore, a basi angustato,<br />

crebre fortiterque punctato, angulis posticis retrorsum<br />

productis, acutis, bicarinaiis; elytris brevibus, punctato-striatis,<br />

granulatis, ferrugineis, fasciis duabus fusco-brunneis. — Long.<br />

.10-12, lat. 5-3 Vs mill.<br />

Presqu'ile des Malais.<br />

Trouve par M. de Caste]nau.<br />

MELANOXANTHUS EPITROTUS. — Fusco brunneus, dense pubescens;<br />

prothorace latitudine vix longiore, crebre punctato, postice<br />

canaliculate, angulis posticis retrorsum productis, acutis, carinatis;<br />

elytris atlenuatis, punctato-substriatis, inter stitiis rugose<br />

punctatis, plaga basali rufo-testacea; pedibus flavo-rufls. —<br />

Long. 8-10, lat. 2 */a - 2 *\z mill.<br />

Var. a. Plaga elytrorum obsoleta.<br />

Var. 6. Rufescens, elytris saepe rufo-testaceis.<br />

Singapore.<br />

MELANOXANTHUS VITTATUS. — Brunneus, concinne flavo-pubescens;<br />

prothorace latitudine paulo longiore, convexo, crebrius<br />

punctata, postice canaliculato; elytris attenuatis, punctato-substriatis<br />

, inter stitiis rugose punctatis, plaga basali vittaque laterali<br />

flavis; pedibus flavis. — Long. 8, lat. 2*/^ mill.<br />

Borneo.<br />

Cette espeee m'avait paru, au premier abord, n'etre qu'une<br />

variete de la precedente; raais un examen attentif m'a convaincu<br />

qu'elle constitue line espeee distincte. Elle a ete trouvee par<br />

M. Wallace, a Sarawack.<br />

MELANOXANTHUS GUTTULATUS. — Niger, opacus, pube obscura<br />

vestitus; antennis nigris, basi rufis; prothorace latitudine hand<br />

longiore, creberrime punctato, guttulis quatuor angulisque posticis<br />

flavis; elytris punctato-substriatis, inter stitiis rugulosis,

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