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apicalem versus utraquo latera ohliqiie dilatata, hac parte transversa snbtiliter siniiosa 

 ad striam octavam abbreviata, liiieola humerali brevi in interspatio sexto albis. 



Pygidium albido-pubescens, medio elevato fuscuni. Corpus infra lateribus album, 

 medio sparsissinie allx)-ciiiereo-puboscens fere nigrum, abdomino ]iuuctulato etiam 

 obvie cinerascente. Pedes sparsim albo-cinereo-pubescentes, tiliiis parum rufescen- 

 tibus apice fuscis, tarsis articulis prime apice, secundo excepta basi, tertio toto 

 fuscis. 



Ix)ng. Ifi mm., elytr. 11. lat. fi. 



H(0). Java. 



In pattern of upperside similar to X. jiaf/ellains Kahrs. 



81. Xenocenis scalaris sp. nov. 



(?. A', niger, luteo-cinereo-signatus. 



Rostrum supra partibus elevatis exceptis, ac lateribus infra, cum utri.sque vittis 

 capitis, dorsiilibus antice convergentibus ac oculos inarginantibus iiostice latis ac 

 parallelis, luteo-cinereum. Antennae corpore fere triple longiores insensim cineras- 

 centes, articulis 4° et 9° basi, 5" aiiice excepto, 8° supra fere toto cinereis, T elytrorum 

 basim attingente, 3° latitudine vix dimidio longiore, 4° longitudine 2', sed graciliore, 

 5° intu.s ciliato (basi exc.) dimidio 4' panic longiore. 



Prothorax latitudine vix longior, maxima latitudine in medio, dor.so profunde 

 longitrorsum impressus, cum vei-tice impunctatus, carina dorso medio aequaliter 

 concava versus latera insensim convexa parte longitudinali laterali primo parum 

 oblique de.scendente deinde recte antrorsum flexa; vittis tribus latis luteo-cinereis, 

 lateralibus dimidio basali earinam lateralem tangentilius. 



Elytra sutura late profunde depressa, a stria quarta versus latera fortiter declivia; 

 vitta suturali dimidiima basalem suturae occupante postice utrimque in lobum 

 obliquum ad striam tertiam usque extensum cum ramificatione postbasali obliipie 

 versus latera descendente ante declivitatem apicalem in stria nona abbreviata 

 utrimque late trisinuata, signatura postbumerali illo ramo parallela ac ejus figura, 

 ad marginem baSalem cum vitta suturali connexa ante medium marginem lateralem 

 attingente, limbo humerali pone callum nigrum hnmeralem leviter dilatato pube 

 caeterarum signaturarum vestito, maculis duabus anteapicalibus elongatis, una 

 subsuturali altera discoidali postice conjuuctis, margine suturali a])icali angusti.ssimo 

 luteo-cinereis. 



Pjgidium margine reflexum, vitta mediana nigra excepta luteo-cinereum. 



C'orpus infra cum pedibus spar.sim cinereo-pubescens, lateribus luteo-cinereum, 

 hoc colore versus anum magis restricto. Prosternum laeve ; mesosterai processus 

 intracoxalis basi parum declivior quam apico rotiuido; metasternum macula laterali 

 obliqua notatum ; abdomen sparsim punctulatum, lateribus nigro-notatuni. 'I'arsi 

 articulis 1° et 2" apice extremo ac 3" toto nigri. 



l>ong. 17 mm., elytr. 11, lat. 6. 



Hab.— ? 



This species is very peculiar in the pattern of the elytra; so I think it worth 

 descriiiing, though I do not know from which locality the single specimen (tj) in 

 the Tring Museum came. The pattern of the elytra is apparently not constant, there 

 being a small spot on the left elytron behind the middle, connected with the posterior 

 sutural lobe, whei'eas this spot is absent from the right elytron. 



