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Five males and eight females. A close ally of the Central American 

 *S'. (CanifaJ ocidata Champ., differing from that species in its less 

 elongate shape, the faintly fusco-maculate elytra, the less rougldy 

 sculptured prothorax, the more slender antennae, and the simple fifth 

 ventral segment of the male. The elytral markings are sometimes 

 reduced to the lateral streak, as in the ,$ figured, or altogether 

 wanting. 8. crihriceps, from Hong Kong, is another allied form. 



13. — Scraptia a-ihriceps, n. sp. 



Elongate, sub-fvxsiform, shinino-, clothed with long, pallid, decumbent 

 pvibescence ; testaceous, the eyes black ; the head coarsely, closely, the pro- 

 thorax and elytra a little more finely, punctate. Head transverse, convex, 

 unimpressed, the frontal suture distinct ; eyes large, narrowly separated in ^ , 

 more distant in $; mandibles feebly cleft at the tip; antennae long, filiform, 

 rather stovit, joints 2 and 3 short and sub-equal in c? j 3 considerably longer in 

 ? , 4r-ll elongate and aboiit equal in length; apical joint of maxillary palpi 

 sub-cultriform. Prothorax transverse, much wider than the head, semi-circular 

 as seen from above, with two deep basal foveae and another depression opposite 

 the scvitellum. Elytra long, rapidly narrowed from about the middle, narrow 

 at the apex, flattened on the disc below the base. Ventral segment 5 divided 

 into two concave, apically convergent lobes in $ . Legs long and slender ' 

 penultimate joint of each tarsus lobed, the basal joint of the posterior pair 

 very elongate ; tibial spurs long. Length 4-5J, breadth l|-2 mm. ((?$.) 



Hah. : China (BowringJ, Hong Kong (ex coils. Pascoe and 

 F. Bates). 



Ten specimens, some of them labelled as having been captured 

 in 1851 or 1853. Near 8. (CanifaJ ocidata Champ, from Central 

 America, but with a broader, semi-circular, less densely punctate, 

 basally trifoveate prothorax, relatively wider elytra, etc. The head is 

 very coarsely punctate, and the fifth ventral segment divided into two 

 lobes in male, in both species. The single recorded Scraptia from 

 China, S. chinensis Pic, from Tientsin, must be a much smaller insect. 

 It is described thus : — " Sat elongatus, sub-parallelus, nitidus, fulvo- 

 pilosus, rufo-testaceus, capite brunnescente, oculis griseis, antennis 

 sat elongatis, testaceis, vertice sub-sulcato, sat sparse punctato, 

 thorace breve, fortiter sat dense punctato, ad basin et lateraliter fossu- 

 lato, elytris sub-depressis, fortiter sat dense puuctatis. Long. 3 mm." 



14. — Scraptia borneensis, n. sp. 



(? . Elongate, narrow, fusiform, depressed, shining, thickly clothed with 

 l^allid pubescence; testaceous, the eyes black ; densely, the elytra a little more 



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