222 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



(Doherty); Mentawei (Modigliani : var.); Sumatra, 

 Padang (Modigliani: var.), Merang (Doherty); Perak 

 (Doherty) ; Java, Soekaboemi (Bryant, 4. iv. '09) ; Assam, 

 Patkai Mts. (Doherty). 



A variable and widely distributed insect. It is recognis- 

 able by the rather coarse, somewhat abundant vestiture, 

 with scattered intermixed erect hairs, at least on the head 

 and prothorax, those, at the hind angles of the latter 

 clustered into a conspicuous projecting tuft in fresh speci- 

 mens, the elytra, too, with slightly longer hairs along the 

 striae, giving a lineate appearance to the surface, this being 

 especially noticeable in most of the examples from Assam. 

 The body varies in colour from reddish-brown to nigro- 

 piceous, the head being usually rufescent. The head is 

 large and broad, truncate and feebly emarginate at the 

 base, very sparsely punctulate ; the eyes are oval, and very 

 large in $ ; the antennae are testaceous, slender, joints 9-11 

 elongated and slightly thickened, 11 nearly as long as 9 and 

 10 united ; the prothorax is convex, narrow, not wider than 

 the head, roughly sculptured; the elytra are moderately 

 long, gradually narrowed posteriorly, closely, finely 

 punctate, and with rows of rather large punctures separated 

 by narrow distinctly raised interstices ; the legs are tes- 

 taceous, the posterior femora and tibiae often more or 

 less annulate or maculate with black, all the femora 

 strongly clavate, the basal joint of the anterior tarsi much 

 thickened. The Assam specimens have slightly smaller 

 eyes than the rest, but they cannot be separated from them. 

 It is not impossible that Pic may have incorrectly identified 

 M. pallidicornis, Pasc, his M. crassipes, from Borneo, and 

 its var. brunnescens from Sumatra, coming suspiciously 

 near, to judge from the descriptions. 



27. Macratria dentipes, n. sp. (Plate LXIV, fig. 20, <$, 

 anterior tibia.) 



Elongate, narrow, shining, thickly clothed with fine, adpressed, 

 brownish-cinereous pubescence; ferruginous, the palpi and an- 

 tennae, and the femora and tarsi in part, testaceous. Head as long 

 as broad, well-developed behind the very large, oval eyes, rounded at 

 the base, closely, minutely punctate, the occipital groove short, 

 deep; antennae very slender, joints 9-11 elongated and moderately 

 thickened, 11 much longer than 10. Prothorax elongate-oval, 

 barely as wide as the head, attenuate in front, feebly, obliquely 



