Species of Alcides from the Oriental Region. 399 
femora rather densely clothed with plumose scales and ~ 
bearing a broad simple tooth, except the middle pair, which 
has a minute additional tooth; the tibiz setose, the outer 
edge strongly curved near the base in the anterior pairs, the 
front pair carinate on the inner edge and with a deep basal 
sinuation. Sternum with the space between the coxe prac- 
tically the same in all three pairs; the metasternum finely 
rugulose, not granulate. 
Length 7°75-8'5 mm., breadth 2°5-3 mm. 
Manpras: Palni Hills, 6000 ft., v.1917 (P. B. Nathan, 
type) ; Kodaikanal (7. V. Campbell) ; Munaar, Travancore. 
Described from seven specimens. é 
Like an enlarged A. vafellus, Fst., which it resembles 
almost exactly in pattern, except that in that species the 
transverse band on the elytra, when viewed laterally, slopes 
more obliquely forwards; further, the punctation of the 
elytra is much coarser, the prothorax is much less abruptly 
cofistricted in front, and the front tibia are only shallowly 
sinuate at the base in A. vafellus. 
Alcides pyrifer, sp.n. (Pl. VII. fig. 4.) 
&. Form suboblong ; integument piceous black, with pale 
markings formed of very small, fringed, overlapping, creamy- 
white scales; on the pronotum and elytra is a large pear- 
shaped area of the ground-colour surrounded by a line of 
white scaling, which starts on the front margin of the 
pronotum, continues on to the base of interval 5 of the 
elytra, almost immediately passes to 6, then at one-third the 
length to 7, continues on this to beyond the middle, and then 
curves transversely inwards to the suture, being there nar- 
rowly separated from the corresponding line on the other 
side ; a little behind the middle on interval 8 a short line of 
scaling contiguous with the stripe and a similar, rather 
longer one on interval 9; a V-shaped white marking at the 
apex of intervals 3 and 9; the pronotum with a faint, narrow, 
median, pale line in the basal third and a sharply defined 
lateral stripe on a line with interval 10 of the elytra; the 
lower surface with fairly dense, buff, fringed scales, the meta- 
notum with a large lateral patch of much denser silvery- 
white scaling. 
Head with rather coarse confluent punctation, leaving two 
small, transverse, smooth patches on a line with the upper 
edge of the eye; the forehead with a faint transverse 
impression at its junction with the rostrum and with an 
inconspicuous median fovea. Rostrum elongate, gently 
