( "1.5 ) 



Prothorax broailer than Ion,?, the siiles almost stvaig'ht from the base to the 

 tip of the lateral carina ; pronotnm imnctnred at sides, transverse groove present, 

 bnt feebl}' developed, dorsal carina straight, forming an obtnse angle with the 

 lateral carina ; basi-lateral carina distinct. 



Elytra rather strongly narrowed towards apox, slightly depressed along sntnre ; 

 the pnnctures small. 



Underside grey, a sjiot on sides of metasternnm, and three small ones on 

 abdomen at some distance from lateral edges, blackish brown, sterna imnctnred. 

 Legs black, femora and a patch or a dot near or at base of tibiae grey. First 

 abdominal segment (c?) with tnbercle. 



Length (exclnsive of head) 7i mm. 



One d from Knching, Sarawak. 



23. Litocei'us rajah spec. nov. 



?. Similar to L. jirra/n'/is/n Jord. (1894), bnt broader, and the markings 

 different. 



Rostrnm shorter than in L. pcrakensis, broader proximally, the sides more 

 ronnded at the apox, the five carinae as in pent/teiisis ; genal groove open. Eyes 

 jiarallel, the frons not being triangular, bnt narrowed abont the middle, broader 

 tiian in L. perakeims. Antenna brownish black, only the first segment rufons 

 at base, segment 9 as long as 3, longer than 10, and this a little longer than 8. 



Prothorax broader than in L. perakensis, the sides more ronnded, the apical 

 constriction more abrupt ; pronotnm punctured laterally, with the following clayish 

 bnff markings : a broad median vitta, widened behind apex, and more so before 

 and behind carina, sending out a branch on each side from the carina to the 

 transverse discal groove nearly as in Ij. jihiUppinensis Jord. (1895) ; these 

 branches widened in the transverse groove, but here not joined to the median vitta 

 (in our only specimen), a narrow sublateral vitta interrupted behind middle and 

 again at the carina, and connected anteriorly with the tomentose underside, and in 

 middle with a large patch situated above the lateral carina. 



Scutellum almost twice as broad as long. Elytra clayish buff for the greater 

 part, the following markings being black : a narrow transverse spot at basal margin, 

 a spot at shoulder angle, an anteriorly open thin half-ring on subbasal callosity, 

 three short thin lines one obliquely behind the other, the last standing in second 

 interspace in antemedian depression, another short line in fourth interspace, a 

 somewhat longer line in space 0, anteriorly joining a small half-ring which is 

 placed at the side of the subbasal callosity, spaces 7, 8 and 9 also with lines 

 behind shoulder, a little behind centre of suture an elliptical spot, longitudinal, 

 not quite extending to the second row of punctures, connected (1) before its centre 

 with an irregular, transverse, zigzag line, which is divided into two bands laterally, 

 and (2) posteriorly with a second, thinner, transverse zigzag band, a subapical, 

 small, sntural spot joined to the transverse line, a larger subapical discal spot, 

 more or less divided by clayish buff lines of dots, and also connected with the 

 posterior zigzag line, lastly a spot at sntural angle. Pygidium broader than long, 

 with clayish buff, lateral, triangular vitta. 



Underside slaty grey, the sides huffish, metasternite with several blackish 

 lateral spots. Metasternum with a shallow transverse groove near anterior 

 margin; intercoxal process twice as broad as long, with an oblique longitudinal 



