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NEW ORIENTAL ANTHRIBIDAE. 

 By dr. K. JORDAN. 

 1. Mecotropis spilosa spec. uov. 



S. Eye sinuate, fruus sulcate. Stracturallj- the same as marmoreus (1894) 

 Jord., but conspicudusl)' different in colour. Black and clayisli grey above, tiie two 

 colours strongly contrasting, forming sharply marked confluent spots, the black 

 colour prevalent ; head and rostrum with a broad mesial vitta, divided behind by 

 a black elongate mesial spot. Pronotnm, inside the space encircled by the carina, 

 witli twelve sjiots, three mesial ones merged together to a forked spot, the lateral 

 ones irregularly angulate, the mesial one situated in front of the carina elongate - 

 triangular. Underside bluish grey and black, the colours as sharply contrasting as 

 above ; abdominal segments 1 to 4 spotted with black and grey, the grey spots 

 merged together at the apices of the segments and the black ones at the bases. 



Hub. Palawan, January 18U8 (W. Doherty). 



One S. 



The insect reminds one (j( coelestis (1808) Jord., and pantkerinus (18o~)Thomii., 

 but differs from both in the structure of the rostrum and the shape of the eye. 



2. Mecotropis crassicollis spec. uov. 



(?. Black ; body covered with a dense ochraceous clay tomentura, chequered 

 with black (or brown) and grey ; tips of autennal segments 3 to 8, liases of tarsal 

 ones and underside of tibiae white. 



Rostrum half as long again as apically broad, deeply sulcate in middle, the 

 sulcus being prolonged to occiput ; two grooves before eye and a third one starting 

 from lower edge of eye ; the carina bordering the upper groove continued to a|)ex 

 of rostrum. Eye entire. Prothorax wider than in all the otiier species, obviously 

 rounded-dilated ; notum with broad mesial depression from near apical edge to 

 base, the dejiression divided by a mesial elevation, which reaches neither apex 

 nor carina ; the carina strongly rounded laterally. Elytra short, depressed along 

 the suture ; the interspaces of the stripes of punctures slightly convex. Transverse 

 groove in front of forecoxae deep, widest in middle. Intercoxal process of meso- 

 sternum rounded, about as broad as long. Aual sternite bidentate. 



Length, I'i mm.* ; elytra, loi mm.; breadth, mm. 



Ha/j. Palembang, Sumatra, oue c? ((y/'C) ; another S from Pontianak, Borneo. 

 In the structure of the rostrum it agrees best with coelestis (1898) Jord. 



3. Sintor dicyrtus spec. nov. 



? . Black, entirely clothed with a slaty pubescence ; club of antenna and on 

 each elytrum a large basal tubercle and three small postmedian spots (one dorsal 

 and two sublateral, these last minute) black, a subapical {>atch on each elytrum and 

 two series of lateral dots on the abdomen brown, lint very indistinct. Rostrum 

 rugosely jtunctured, less than twice as long as broad, dorsally with a prominent 

 mesial carina which terminates on occiput and does not ipiito reacli the apical 

 • Head and rustruni is iu :iU ca.ses excluded. 



