164 ACHRIONOTA niLlNEATA. 



Protliorax similar in shape to that of the male, elongate, 

 scarcely longer than the basal portion of the rostrum and 

 head taken together, the sides are very convex ; it is widest 

 about the middle and strongly contracted at the apex ; along 

 the middle furrowed ; the longitudinal impression is covered 

 with yellow-whitish scales , forming at the sides two lines 

 which are slightly curved inwards ; laterally the scales are 

 scattered here and there , beneath very numerous. 



The elytra are as long as 2^j^ the prothorax , subpa- 

 rallel at the sides; at the apex sinuatetl and the angles 

 with a spine slightly curved inwards. Above the elytra 

 are regularly subsulcate-punctate and bear along the su- 

 ture two lines of yellow- whitish scales; moreover minute 

 scales are in the 3'^'' and 9*'' furrows at the base and at 

 the apex. Metasternum and the two basal segments of the 

 abdomen ashy, irregularly punctured ; the last abdominal 

 segments and the sides have numerous scales. Legs slen- 

 der, with scattered small yellow-whitish scales. 



Length 19 mill., breadth of the prothorax 2 mill. 



Hah. Borneo: Sarawak. (My collection). 



Prop ht halm us planipennis Pascoe ^). 



9. Black, more or less shining. Head short, transverse, 

 irregularly punctured : the posterior angles moderately pro- 

 duced , rounded , above and beneath at the base eraargi- 

 nate , deeply separated from the neck , the undersurface is 

 roughly punctate , slightly pubescent. Rostrum shorter than 

 the prothorax , the basal portion shorter than the head 

 and furrowed, the apical half filiform , conspicuously curved 

 and furrowed ; beneath bisulcate and moderately punctured ; 

 antennae as in the male. 



Prothorax similar in shape to that of the male, but 

 less flattened in the middle; shining, rarely subshining. 

 In the elytra , the declivity at the sides , the furrows and 



1) Annals and Magazine of Natural History for November 1872, p. 323. 

 JS'otes from the Leyden M.useum , "Vol. XIII. 



