Species of Alcides from the Oriental Region. 407 
Head with close reticulate punctation throughout in 4, 
with any frontal fovea ; ? with the forehead more sparsely 
punctate. Rostrum of g shorter than the front femur, only 
slightly curved, parallel-sided from the base to the insertion 
of the antenne (a little beyond the middle), thence gradually 
widening to the apex, closely and strongly punctate 
throughout, with a short median stria between the antenne, 
and with a downwardly projecting tooth on the submentum ; 
rostrum of ¢ also shorter than the front femur (scarcely 
longer than that of the g) and with the antenne inserted a 
little beyond the middle, the apex less dilated than in the J, 
but the punctures nearly as dense and strong. Prothorax 
nearly as long as broad, parallel-sided for a short distance 
from the base, then roundly narrowed, and broadly con- 
stricted at the apex; the postocular lobes rather feeble; the 
dorsum closely set throughout with flattened scale-like 
granules, with fairly numerous feather-scales at the sides and 
a few down the middle line, the rest of the disk with sparse 
recumbent sete. Scutellum not enclosed in front, quadrate. 
Elytra cylindrical, only slightly broader than the prothorax, 
with a very shallow transverse impression near the base ; 
the foveole deep and oblong, becoming striate beyond the 
transverse pale band; the intervals rugulose, with sparse, 
minute, recumbent sete. Legs with numerous narrow 
feather-scales ; the anterior pairs of femora with a promi- 
nent bidentate tooth, that on the hind pair much reduced ; 
the front tibize with a laminate angulation internally about 
the middle and with a very small apical tooth near the 
uncus, the posterior pairs simple. 
Length 6°25-7°5 mm., breadth 2°25-3 mm. 
Unitrep Provinces: Dehra Dun, on grass, 1 9, 15. vii. 
1912; Dehra Dun, boring in twigs of Gmelina arborea, 13, 
19, vil. and ix. 1914 (C. F. C. Beeson). Assam; Cachar, 
bred from Gmelina arborea, 1 3, 10. vii. 1920. Burma: 
Bilumyo R., Katha, 1 g, 13. v. 1919 (Beeson). 
Very closely allied to A. ludificator, Fst. (Ann. Mus. Civ. 
Genova, xxxiv. 1894, p, 254), but the ¢ of that species may 
be at once distinguished by the absence of the tooth on the 
submentum ; and in the ? the rostrum is longer than the 
front femur and very finely and sparsely punctate. 
Alcides bryanti, sp. n. (Pl. VII. fig. 9.) 
3%. Form elliptical ; integument piceous or blackish, 
with pale stripes and bands formed of small subquadrate, 
overlapping, fringed, creamy-white scales; a narrow stripe 
