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depends almost entirely on the amount of pubescence covering 

 the derm. 



Escharodes interruplus. (PI. V. fig. 1.) 



E. fuscus, griseo-varius ; prothorace carina medio-interrupta, 

 lateribus turgidis; feraoribus anticis subcompressis, margine 

 superiori producto. 



//a6.— Morty, Gilolo. 



Pubescence brown, varied with grey; head with a thin greyish 

 pile, and a few scattered rugose punctures in front, median line 

 confined to the vertex, a well-marked ridge on each side of it 

 and another over the eye ; epistome yellowish, lip smoky brown ; 

 mandibles black ; palpi ferruginous ; prothorax with the ridge 

 interrupted, or not rising into a line in the middle, the sides 

 turgid, and rugose from small tubercles; scutellum transverse; 

 elytra rather elongate, with broad grey flexuous bands more 

 or less confluent at the suture, seriate-punctate, the granules 

 arranged in three lines, which are elevated at the base, but fading 

 out towards the apex ; body beneath with a thin greyish pubes- 

 cence, spotted with brown on the breast and sides ; legs rather 

 long, dark brown mottled with grey, the basal joint of the tarsi 

 grey, anterior femora subcompressed, the upper edge produced ; 

 antennae about a third longer than the body, dark brown, the 

 basal joints spotted with grey, the rest with grey at their 

 junctions. 



Length 1 1 lines. 



Escharodes carinicollis. 

 E. fuscus, griseo-varius ; prothorace carina baud interrupta, 



lateribus turgidis ; femoribus anticis margine superiori dente 



valido instructis. 

 Hab. — Aru, Batchian, Dorey, Gilolo. 



Glabrous, brown with grey pubescent patches ; head as in E. 

 interruptus, but the lip considerably shorter ; prothorax with a 

 strongly marked continuous ridge, the sides turgid and very 

 rugosely tuberculate ; scutellum transverse ; elytra considerably 

 shorter than in E. interruptus, the grey patches more distinctly 

 separated from the brown and less confluent, and tlie granules on 

 the most basal of the lateral patches very much larger ; body 

 beneath with a scanty pubescence ; legs shorter than in E. inter- 

 ruptus, darker and less pubescent, and the antennae more slender. 



Length 9 lines. 



