360 LYCID BEETLES OF SARAWAK. 



CONDEEIS FAUSTERI Bourg. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Franc. Ixxi, 1902--03. 



A single specimen with deep blackish prothorax and scutel- 

 lum, I must refer to this species. Bourgeois draws in his 

 description attention to the fact that colour varieties of the 

 above-mentioned kind occur. In all other characters it agrees 

 well with Bourgeois' species. 



Mt. Poi, 4350 feet. 



DiLOPHOTES PULCHELLUS n. sp. 



9 . Black, only elytra with the exception of a small apical 

 part cinnabar red, moderately shining. Prothorax and elytra 

 dull ; frons as broad as twice the diameter of the e3'es, roughly 

 and longitudinally sculptured, with scattered hairs; antennae 

 strong, 3rd— 11th joints of about the same length, 1^ times 

 as long as broad, undentate, of the shape of those of D. com- 

 mendatus Kleine ; prothorax at the hindangles as broad as 

 deep, sides straight backwards dilated, posterior margin buckled 

 in towards the middle, posterior angles only sUghtly protruding 

 outwards ; sculpture at the anterior margin dense and strong, 

 the keel sharp, the narrow longitudinal furrow, falling in front 

 of the posterior margin, is dissolved into isolated single 

 punctures; elytra with three ribs, the 1st faint, in its posterior 

 half vanishing, 2nd strong and nearly reaching the apex, 3rd 

 distinct only at the base ; puncture and hairs normal. 



Length of body, 7 mm. Width (humerus) 1.5 mm. Mt. 

 Penrissen, 4000 feet. 



Typus in Sarawak Museum. 



Easily distinguished from all other species by its brick- 

 coloured elytra. 



SC.\RELUS ARDENS n. Sp. 



Uniformly cherry-reddish, strongly shining, densely hairy. 

 Head with shallow lateral impression; eyes small black. An- 

 tennae of about twice the length of the body, 1st joint club- 

 shaped, 2nd very small with a dorsal tubercule or spine, 3rd- 

 11th nearly of the same length, fihform, the basal joints 

 rounded, c^'lindrical, the other ones towards the tips laterally 

 compressed ; prothorax broader than deep, anterior margin 

 rounded, sides sHghtly dilated backwards, posterior margin on 

 both sides of the middle bent forwards, areola very small, 

 touching the anterior and posterior margin; 1st rib of elytra 



