394 Mr. G. C. Champion on 
Fab. CryLon, Galle [type]; TENASSERIM; PENANG (C. F. 
Baker) ; Borneo, Sandakan (C. F. Baker). 
Four rather worn specimens sent by Mr. Baker agree with 
those recorded by me in 1916. The inseet may be of littoral 
habits ? ; 
Hylobenus varicornis. 
Hylobenus varicornis, Champ. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1916, p. 4. 
Hab. StsM; TENASSERIM; PHILIPPINES, Basilan Island 
(C. F. Baker). 
One specimen from Basilan, not differing from the types. 
PHYTOBANUS, Sahlb. 
Phytobeenus gibbiventris, sp. n. 
?. Elongate, narrow, robust, convex beneath, shinin 
(when denuded) ; nigro-piceous, the front of the head reddish, 
the prothorax with the anterior margin, the elytra with a 
large oblique patch on the disc below the base (nearly reaching 
the suture), and a common, broad, arcuate, outwardly- 
narrowed subapical fascia, the palpi, and legs (the slightly 
infuscate posterior femora excepted) testaceous, the antennz 
piceous ; pruinose and very finely pubescent ; closely, finely 
punctured. Head a little wider than the prothorax ; eyes 
extremely large, almost contiguous, deeply emarginate; an- 
tenn rather elongate, stout, joints 2-6 subcylindrical, 3 as 
long as 4, 8-10 transverse, 11 acuminate-ovate. Prothorax 
longer than broad, convex, rounded at the sides, unimpressed. 
Elytra moderately long, a little wider than the head, sub- 
parallel in their basal half, broadly depressed on the dise 
below the base. Posterior legs comparatively short, the 
femora moderately clavate towards the apex. The fused 
ventral segments 1 and 2 convex, together as long as 3-5 
united. 
Length 24 mm. 
Hab. StnGAporeE (C. F. Baker). 
One specimen. Narrower and more elongate than P. ama- 
bilis, Sahlb., a Palearctic insect extending to Japan, the 
antennee longer, the elytral markings different. The present 
species forms an intermediate link between Phytobenus, 
Sahlb., and Hylobenus, Pic. 
