PHYTOPIIAGA FROxM SUMATRA 405 



'34. Demotina sumatrana, n. sp. — Obscure fulvous or piceous, 

 clotlied with curved greyish scales, sides of thorax without teeth, 

 surface closely punctured and pubescent, elytra more strongly 

 and irregularly punctured, clothed with grey scales and curved 

 setae, femora with a very small tooth. 



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Head strongly and rather closely punctured, each puncture 

 furnished with a curved greyish hair, clypeus transverse, sepa- 

 rated from the face by a deep groove, its surface rugosely punc- 

 tured, labrum fulvous, antennae extending slightly beyond the 

 Imse of the thorax, fulvous, the terminal five joints piceous or 

 Idack, thickened, slightly longer than broad, the basal joint 

 thickened, the second thinner but of equal length and longer 

 than the following two joints, thorax about twice as broad as 

 long, the sides very slightly rounded, entire, the anterior angles 

 produced , the surface rather convex , strongly punctured , each 

 puncture provided with a curved grey hair, elytra wider at the 

 base than the thorax, rather coarsely punctured, and similarly 

 clothed with curved scales, the punctuation more regular near 

 the suture than at the sides ; underside and legs coloured as 

 the upper surface, prosternum broader than long, sul)quadrate, 

 puljescent, the femora with a minute tooth, the anterior mar- 

 gin of the thoracic episte rnum concave. 



Hah. Si-Rambé , Benculen. 



A species of varial^le colour and size, either obscure piceous, 

 suljopaque or fulvous and more shining, according to the amount 

 of pubescence which covers its surface, this latter is sometimes 

 rather dense and obscures the punctuation, forming in well pre- 

 served specimens a greyish band at the sides of the thorax and 

 several small greyish spots on the elytra, which have the pu- 

 bescence also arranged in indistinct rows, in other specimens, 

 which are prolmbly rubbed, this arrangement is not visible or 

 scarcely so ; the species is , of course , closely allied to several 

 other Malayan forms descriJ^ed Ijy Baly but diliers in details 

 from either of them ; I may add further that there are scarcely 

 any erect stiff hairs visible on the elytra between the curved 



