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from Bahia. now wants the head and prothorax. This insect has the 

 aspect of a Cistelid, but it certainly belongs to the Scraptiina. 



Compared "with .S". inornata and the allied Brazilian forms, the 

 present species is much smaller, and has a still shorter prothorax, with 

 the base more rounded and the hind-angles obtuse, the mandibles less 

 deeply cleft, the third antennal joint smaller, and the basal joint of 

 the posterior tarsi much shorter. The antennae and palpi, and the 

 tarsi in part, are black. 



10. — Scraptia sagittifera, n. sp. 

 (Plate VII, fig. 1.) 



Elongate, somewhat fusiform, depressed, shining, finely pubescent ; pale 

 testaceous, the eyes black, the prothorax with two narrow, widely separated 

 vittae on the disc, and the elytra with a common, sharply defined, sub-apical, 

 sagittiform mark extending forward along the suture to the base, piceous or 

 nigi'o-piceous, the elytra also with a large, triangular, slightly infuscato scutellar 

 patch ; closely, finely, the elytra a little more coarsely and sparsely, punctate. 

 Head transverse, convex, narrowly extended on each side behind the eyes, the 

 latter large, narrowly separated, and very deeply and broadly emarginate, the 

 frontal suture well defined ; joint 4 of maxillary palpi moderately stout, securi- 

 form ; antennae rather stout, filiform, joints 2 and 3 very short, equal, together 

 not longer than 4, the others moderately elongate. Prothorax transverse, semi- 

 circiilar (as seen from above), sinuate at the base, the hind-angles sharp ; with 

 two small deep basal foveae, and a shallow transverse depression between them. 

 Elytra long, slightly wider than the prothorax, rapidly narrowed from about 

 the middle, rounded at the apex. Legs long, slender; penultimate joint of 

 front and middle tarsi feebly lobed. Length Si, breadth l^'y mm. ( JF) 



Hab. : Tenasserim, Mergui (Doherty). 



One specimen, in fairly good condition, evidently a male. Less 

 elongate and more slender than S'. quadrisignata (infra), the puncturing 

 finer, the antennae stouter, not so long, and with a shorter third joint, 

 the apical joint of the maxillary palpi much smaller, the legs slender, 

 the markings very diifex-ent. The eyes are almost divided into two 

 by the broad ocular canthus. The scutellar patch is perhaps due to 

 discoloration. 



11. — Scraptia picturata, n. sp. 



(Plate VII, fig. 2.) 



Elongate, fusiform, depressed, shining, thickly clothed with i-ather coai-se 

 jiiUid hairs ; testaceous, the eyes black, the prothoi-ax suffused with fuscous, 



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