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tooth ; the front tibize gently curved externally, strongly 
bisinuate internally and with an obtuse-angled tooth behind 
the middle, the median pair very feebly bisinuate within, 
the hind pair short and simple. Sternum with the front 
intercoxal space much narrower than the median one; the 
metasternum sparsely granulate. 
Length 8-94 mm., breadth 2°5-3°25 mm. 
Sarawak: Mt. Matang, 1. 1914, Quop, i. 1914 (type), 
Puak, v. 1914 (G. E. Bryant). 
Described from six specimens. 
Structurally this species belongs to the group represented 
by A. chiliarchus, Boh., and A. ligatus, Pasc., but may 
readily be recognised by its very distinctive pattern ; the 
internal tooth on the front tibice is not so strongly developed 
as in the two species mentioned. 
Alcides vitalisi, sp. nu. (PI. VII. fig. 11.) 
3 %. Body markedly flattened, as though adapted for 
subcortical habits ; integument dark piceous, the head, pro- 
thorax, and the humeral angles of the elytra black ; the pale 
scales on the prothorax forming only a faint median line, 
and fairly numerous on the pleuree; the elytra with a broad 
transverse band of rather sparse, pale plumose scales behind 
the middle, extending from the lateral margin to stria 3 or 
2, its anterior edge with a long projection on interval 5 and 
the hind margin angulate on interval 6; in addition, an 
indefinite preapical band of scales, which is broadly inter- 
rupted on the suture. 
Head closely and coarsely punctate, the forehead flattened 
but without any median fovea, ostrum unusually slender 
(especially in the ?), straight, quite cylindrical, and almost 
porrect ; in the ?, longer, with the antennz inserted far 
behind the middle, coarsely punctate in the basal third only, 
the distal portion being glabrous with extremely minute 
' sparse punctures, the dorsal outline rising sharply (about 
30°) near the junction with the head, the actual base being 
somewhat above the level of the forehead; in the g shorter, 
with the antenne at the middle, coarsely and confluently 
punctate to beyond the middle and with three irregular 
narrow carine, the apical portion with well-marked 
separated punctures, and the basal dorsal elevation much 
less marked. Antenne with the scape only as long as the 
first 6 joints of the funicle ; joint 1 of the funicle as long as 
the next 24 joints, joints 2-6 all transverse, 7 as long as the 
club and longer than the three preceding joints. Prothorax 
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