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between the central aiiJ second carina, slightly concave. Antenna reaching beyond 

 basal fourth of elytram, Tulescont-brown, paler at the joints, segment -i longer 

 than 4, 7 nearly twice 8, 9 longer than to 8 together, 10 abont half as long 

 again as broad. 



Pronotiim broader than long, impnnctate, with a sharply marked transverse 

 groove on disc, clay-colonr, disc Ijrowii with the exception of a clay-colonred cross 

 formed by a median vitta and two spots sitnated in the groove, which join the 

 vitta and the sides, so that the brown disc is divided into four spots. 



Elytra hardly at all depressed at the sntnre, the siibbasal callosity but slightly 

 elevate, basal margin greyish, nnmerous short clayish lines in basal half, more 

 or less connected with one auotlier and with the basal border, a shonlder-spot 

 and a round spot on the callosity remaining blackish brown, in centre a clayish 

 grey transverse spot from interspace 3 to 6, the whole declivous apex bright 

 clay-colour, with the exception of a rounded sjiot, this clay area being anteriorly 

 sinuous. Pygidium entirely clay-colour, convex. 



Underside all grey, without any spots. Legs pale rufous, pubescent-grey, the 

 greater jjart of the femora and the tip of tibiae blackish, tarsi brownish. First 

 tarsal segment about half the length of the tibia. 



Length (exclusive of head) 5A mm. 



One ? from Kuching, Sarawak, August IlJUU. 



14a. Acorynus luzonicus leitensis subsp. nov. 



cJ ? . llufescent brown ; the upper one of the two lateral clayish vittae on the 

 prouotum broken up into three small spots, the second vitta obsolete in its posterior 

 half; elytra evenly dotted from base to apes, each puncture of the rows being 

 situated in a clayish grey dot, the punctures less numerous than in luzonicus Jord. 

 (Ih'J.3) and samamnus Jord. (1S9.S), at lateral margin a large spot behind shoulder 

 and a small one beliind middle, in ? also a spot close to apex. 



One pair from Leite, Philippines, August 1896 (J. Whitehead). 



14b. a. luzonicus rantus subsp. nov. 



cJ?. Black. The slightly flexuose lateral vittae of the prouotum complete; 

 elytra dotted with clayish grey from base to apex, the dots much more numerous 

 and smaller than in the preceding form, most of them small or obsolescent in 

 central third of the elytra, while they are more or less confluent in the basal 

 and apical thirds ; no lateral spots, but a small spot on fourth interspace behind 

 middle. 



One pair from Cape Engano, North Luzon (J. ^Vhitehead). 



15. Acorynus distichus spec. nov. 



?. An elongate rufescent species with the tenth antennal segment long as in 

 Litocerus; allied to A. nij'us Jord. (1894), jjicturatus Jord. (1895, described as 

 a Litocerus) and iiessiarops spec, nov., bearing like these species a rather close 

 suiierficiai resemblance to some species of the genus Xessiara. 



Head and rostrum densely pubescent pale yellow ; the latter a little longer than 

 it is broad at the apex, with three prominent, straight, dorsal carinae, the median 

 one reaching to apex, but its apical half obsolescent, the lateral dorsal carina 



