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Long:, (cap. excl.) ll-:") mm. 



Salibaboe, Talaut Islands, iii. (W. Doberty) ; 1 ? . 



Similar to A', hicinctus Jorcl. (LS94), from the same locality, but differs in the 

 lironotnm bearing a white median stripe, the elytra a large shonlder-patch in 

 place of a snbbasal band, the broad white transverse bands on the pro- and 

 metasterna, the diffuse bnt broad borders to the third and fourth abdominal 

 sternites, etc. 



The white stripes on the head reach to the apex of the rostrum ; they 

 are narrowed, but not interrupted, on the anterior portion of the frons. The 

 bases of segments 4 and 5 of the antenna and the entire segments 7 and 8 are 

 white. The median stripe of the pronotum tapers at both ends and reaches 

 neither apex nor base, being centrally as broad as the space which separates it 

 from the dorso-lateral spot. This spot is slightly yellow behind, elliptical, with 

 the upper edge almost straight, its longitudinal diameter being a little longer than 

 the distance of the spot from the apical margin. 



The yellow colour of the markings of the elytra may be an individual 

 character; the humeral patch extends to the tirst row of punctures, not counting 

 the scutellar row, and its posterior edge is almost semicircular, but somewhat 

 ragged ; the humeral angle itself black ; the postmedian band broader than in 

 A', bieiiictus and the apical spot touches the apical margin. The pygidium bears a 

 small spot on each side at the base. 



The band of the presternum is almost interrupted in the centre and extends 

 laterally to the snbbasal depression, being traversed by a black line from the 

 coxa upwards, the line corresponding to the meral suture. The elongate lateral 

 s[)ot on the mesosternite does not quite occupy the entire epimernm. The trans- 

 verse fascia of the metasternite is broad and in the centre rather widely interrupted. 

 The abdominal sternite 2 bears sparse white pubescence near the apical margin, 

 while the next two segments have a broad but somewhat diffuse band from 

 side to side. 



The legs are entirely but not very densely pubescent greyish white, with black 

 apices to the tibiae and to the tarsal segments. 



25a. Xenocerus lacrymans lacrymans Thorns. (1857). 



Andai, Uoon and Kajianr, Dutch New (juinea (W. Doherty) : ~ 6S and 3 ? ? 

 Ureiuning, Aru Islands (C. Ribbe) ; 1 6 and 1 ¥ . 



26. Xenocerus striatus Jord. (1894). 



Davao, Mindanao (Dr. Platen; ; 5 6 S and 1 'i . 



One of the 3 <S agrees with the type, while the other five examples approach 

 A', compressicornis Jord. (1894), the sutural vitta being continued obliquely to the 

 outer margin. It is probable that striatns and compressiconiii are forms of one 

 geographically and individually variable species. 



27. Xenocerus cinctus Jord. (18'J4). 



Toli-T..li, North Celebes, xi.-xii. 1895 (H. Fruhstorfer) ; 1 S. 

 The specimen agrees with the examples from Amboiua, wlieucc cam* then irae- 

 tyjie and the other specimens which I have seen, 

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