On new Alcides from the Oriental [egion. 393 
XLIX.—On new Species of Alcides from the Oriental 
Region. By Guy A. K. Marsuwatt, C.M.G., D.Sc. 
[Plate VII.] 
Alcides crinalifer, sp.n. (Pl. VII. fig. 1.) 
& ?. Integument black, clothed above (between the shiny 
granules) with small, narrow, non-contiguous, fawn-coloured 
scales that are somewhat fimbriate at the apex, and with the 
following creamy-white markings, that are formed of dense, 
overlapping, broad, plumose scales: a median stripe on the 
base of the rostrum and covering the whole forehead; three 
stripes on the pronotum, the median being a little narrower 
than the laterals; the elytra with a broad stripe continuous 
with the lateral one on the prothorax, commencing on 
intervals 5 and 6 at the base, but soon passing on to intervals 
6, 7, and half of 8, and so continuing to the apex; a stripe 
starting just behind the scutellum, running for a short dis- 
tance along interval 1, and turning obliquely outwards to 
join the lateral stripe before the middle ; and, finally, a stripe 
starting on the suture behind the middle, running obliquely 
to interval 3, and continuing straight along that interval to 
the apex; the lower surface with dense, fawn-coloured, 
plumose scales, which are more sparse in the middle of 
the metasternum and venter, the last ventrite being mainly 
bare. 
Head with close shallow punctuation on the vertex, the 
forehead with a broad, shallow, punctate depression, which is 
filled up with scaling. Rostrum shorter than the front 
femur in both sexes, feebly curved, slightly dilated at. the 
apex, coarsely punctate as far as the antenne (slightly less 
so in 9 than in @), and with a shallow, median, longi- 
tudinal impression in the basal half, filled with scaling. 
Prothorax transverse, broadest at the base, and narrowing 
rather rapidly at the apex, with the sides gently rounded and 
shallowly constricted at the apex; the postocular lobes well 
developed; the dorsum with fairly large, separated, low, shining 
granules, except on the three pale stripes, the lower lateral 
margin of the granulate area sharply defined. Scutellum 
not enclosed, transverse, bare, either flattened, shallowly 
impressed, or with a very deep impression. //ytra very 
elongate-ovate, broader than the prothorax at the shoulders, 
which are very sloping, and thence gradually narrowed to 
the apices, which are slightly dehiscent; the basal lobes 
Ann. & Mag. NN. Hist. Ser. 9. Vol. ix. 26 
