Species of Alcides from the Oriental Region. 395 
four small teeth in front of it (fig. 1,@); the tibize simple 
internally. 
Length 85-10 mm., breadth 3-5-4 mm. 
Mapras: Ouchterlony Valley, 4500 ft., Nilgiri Hills 
(H. L. Andrewes) ; Ootacamund. 
Described from four specimens. 
Most nearly allied structurally to A. acutus, Fst., but with 
markings suggestive of the group represented by A. teniatus, 
Hllr., and A. vinculosus, Hllr.; the pattern is, however, 
quite distinctive, especially the broad continuous stripe on 
intervals 6 and 7 and the hairpin-like marking on the 
declivity. | 
Alcides habenatus, sp.n. (Pl. VII. fig. 2.) 
3S ?. Form elliptical: integument black, with stripes and 
bands formed of dense, creamy-white, plumose scales ; the 
prothorax with a narrow median stripe and a broader bilateral 
stripe, ending on the base opposite intervals 5 and 6 of the 
elytra, and below this an ill-defined broad stripe on the 
pleurze ; the elytra thinly clothed with short brown setz and 
with the following pale markings: a broad curved intra- 
humeral stripe, starting at the base on intervals 5 and 6, 
turning outwards just behind the shoulder on to intervals 
7-10 and ceasing a little before the middle, its inner edge 
forming a regular curve or with a more or less distinct 
re-entrant angle; a broad oblique band (of varying width) 
starting at the middle of interval 2 and sloping backwards to 
join the proximal end of a broad lateral stripe that occupies 
more than the apical third of intervals 7-9 ; and, finally, a 
stripe on the apical fourth of interval 3; the lower surface 
fairly densely covered with buff plumose scales. 
Head with close shallow punctation and without a frontal 
fovea. Rostrum moderately stout, as long as the front femur 
in 2 ,shorter in @,a little narrower in the basal than in the 
apical half, and with the antenne inserted far beyond the 
middle in both sexes ; the dorsal outline shallow sinuate in 
the basal half, the punctation fairly strong and close in 2, 
and but little finerin 9. Prothorax a little broader than 
long, subconical, widest at the base, regularly narrowing in 
front, with the sides gently rounded and the subapical con- 
striction shallow; the apical margin subtruncate dorsally ; 
the longitudinal outline flat behind and gently sloping in 
front; the dorsum closely set throughout with low rounded 
granules, which are very much reduced on the apical area. 
Scutellum punctiform, bare. Hlytra clangate-ovate, distinctly 
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