406 DEG: As K. Marshall on new 
or less confluent longitudinally; in the @ a little longer 
and with the punctation much finer. Prothorax rather 
broader than long, subparallel-sided for a short distance 
from the base, then roundly narrowed and strongly con- 
stricted at the apex ; the apical margin narrowly lobate in 
the middle dorsally, the postocular lobes well marked ; the 
dorsal outline gently convex longitudinally, deepest in 
the middle; the dorsum with dense, low, rounded granules, 
each with a short recumbent seta on its anterior edge, the 
interstices thinly clothed with setiform scales; there is a 
trace of a shallow median stria, terminating in a deep 
impression on the basal lobe. Sceutellum not enclosed, some- 
what pyriform, with a few minute scales, and sometimes 
with a shallow median impression. S/ytra subcylindrical, 
distinctly broader than the prothorax, with rounded 
shoulders and with a shallow, curved, transverse impression 
just behind the scutellum; the striz with deep quadrate 
punctures, each containing a minute horizontal seta, but 
most of them more or less filled up with scaling or powder- 
ing, strize 8-5 deeper at the base and curving outwards; the 
intervals broader than the striz, plane, and closely punctate 
or finely rugulose, 2-5 more or less granulate towards the 
base; the scales small, oblong, fringed at the apex and 
somewhat curved. Legs (fig. 1, f) dark piceous, sparsely 
clothed with similar but larger scales; the femora with 
coarse confluent punctation and armed with a stout simple 
tooth; the tibiz reticulately punctate, with a sharp tooth 
on the inner edge above the middle (reduced to a mere 
angulation on the hind pair) and another near the apex. 
Length 12-18 mm., breadth 5°25-5°5 mm. 
Assam: Silonibari, N. Lakhimpur, v.—vii. 1911 (A. 
Stevens). 
Described from four specimens. 
Like a very large specimen of A. improvidus, Fst., but 
without any pale markings; in the latter species the 
shoulders of the elytra are less prominent, the intervals are 
much narrower than the striz, more rugulose, and very 
sparsely punctate. 
Alcides gmeline, sp. n. 
3 ?. Integument black, or the head and thorax black 
and the elytra and legs red-brown; the elytra with a 
narrow, ill-defined, pale band across the top of the declivity 
composed of narrow feather-scales, and a still less distinct 
stripe of similar sparser scales running from behind the 
scutellum towards the middle of the lateral margin. 
