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then follows a transverse black band ; and finally a clay area occupying apical 

 fourth of elytra. Pygidinin uniformly clay-colour. Underside slightly paler 

 pubescent than markings of npj)er ; a spot on metasternal episternuiu, apex of 

 tibia and of first tarsal segment, and tarsal segments 2 to 4 brown-black. 



Rostrum coarsely jinnctured ; with indication of mesial carina; a heavy 

 dorso-lateral carina irom eye to middle, then curving laterad and becoming 

 obsolescent; laterally of this carina the rostrum is grooved. Antennal groove 

 large, rounded. Eye subtruncate beneath, a little more convex than in nifipes. 

 Frons can alien hi te, slightly wider than in rnjipen. Anteunal segments mucli 

 broader than in that species, club elongate-ovate. Prothorax rather longer than 

 iu rujipes, conspicuously punctured. Fygidium rounded, not mucronate. 



Length, 8 to 9 mm. 



Hab. Khasia Hills, Assam. 



Two ? ? . 



36. Xenocerus basilanus spec. uov. 



<?. Black, slightly olivaceous above ; bases of antenual segments 4 and 5, 

 underside of body, and legs grey, sides of sterna clayish buff'; a lateral vitta 

 over head and pronotum, a broad oblique band behind shoulder from base to 

 outer margin of elytrum, a short vitta on suture, beginning at basal fourth and 

 dividing in middle on each elytrum into an obliquely transverse baud, and a 

 short sutural apical streak clayish buff ; pygidium paler buff, black in middle. In 

 structure similar to rufus (1894) Jord., prothorax broader, elytra more depressed 

 at suture. 



Hab. Basilan, Philippines, February— March 1898 (W. Doherty). 



One S. 



37. Xenocerus rufas vidua subsp. uov. 



? . Differs from A', rufus rufas (Borneo) in the antenna being for the greater 

 jiart grey (club excepted), in the elytra being marked by a transverse line before 

 the apex, and in the skeleton of the legs not beiug rufescent. 



Hab. Palembang, Sumatra. 



One ?. 



38. Xenocerus dohertyi mortiensis subsp. nov. 



6 ? . Differs from doh. doherti/i (Batjau) in the two discal streaks of the 

 elytrum being each reduced to a short linear spot situated halfway between base 

 and transverse band, and in the apical line beiug replaced by a triangular spot. 



Hab. Morty (Wallace). 



A series. 



39. Xenocerus kuehni spec. nov. 



S. Allied to X cinctus (1894) Jord., narrower ; thorax longer ; vittae much 

 bioader ; lateral vitta of thorax and elytra of a beautiful red except here and 

 there at the edges ; the transverse band of the elytra united to the lateral vitta. 



Hab. Kendani, S.E. Celebes (H. Kiihnj. 



One 6. 



