224 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



Hob. Celebes (ex Bowring). 



One male, somewhat abraded, found amongst the insects 

 received from Bowring in 1858, mounted on the same card 

 with a female here referred to M. dentipes, which (even in <$) 

 has a very much smaller and narrower head, a less elongate 

 prothorax, etc. A female (?) from the same island (ex 

 Bowring, 1863), with the prothorax and elytra broader, 

 and in great part piceous, the head not quite so wide, 

 and the prothorax less attenuate anteriorly, may belong 

 to the same species ? This second example seems to 

 come near M. obscuripes, Pic (1912), from Toli Toli, 

 Celebes, but the latter is said to have a long head, a 

 definition inapplicable to the insect before me. 



29. Macratria vicina. 



Macratria vicina, Pic, Le Naturaliste, 1896, p. 159. 



Hob. Perak [type]; Penang (G. E. Bryant). 



M. vicina cannot be identified amongst the numerous 

 Macratriae before me from Perak,* but an example cap- 

 tured by Mr. Bryant at Penang in Nov. 1913, may belong 

 to it, at least one other member of the genus (M. dilaticollis) 

 being common to the two places. The Penang insect is 

 very like M. pallidicornis, Pasc. ; but it is more elongate, 

 the pubescence is finer, the eyes are smaller, rather promi- 

 nent, and more rounded, the prothorax is less convex and 

 densely scabroso-punctate, and the elytra are longer, 

 subparallel, and more finely punctato-striate, the inter- 

 stices costulate externally, the striae thus appearing 

 sharply denned. 



30. Macratria robusta. 



Macrarthrius robustus, Motsch., Etudes Ent. vii, p. 67 

 (1858); Bull. Mosc. xxxvi, 1, p. 489 (1863). 



Hab. Ceylon, Colombo. 



The type of this species was from Colombo, whence I 

 have seen two examples found by Mr. Bryant on May 19th, 

 1908, and there is a very large $ of it in the Museum (ex 

 coll. Murray) labelled " Ceylon." A large, robust form, 

 dark reddish-brown in colour, with the palpi, antennae, 

 and legs (the tibia and first-tarsal joint of the posterior pair 



* One of Doherty's captures at this locality, M. instriata, Pic 

 (1915), a small shining black form, with testaceo-fasciate, non-striate, 

 elytra, is not represented in the material before me. 



