Species q/ Laius /'rom the Malayan Region. 203 



10 excepted) and legs (the bases of the femora excepted) 

 testaceous, the elytra each with two very large, transversely 

 subquadrate, yellowish spots; the head and prothorax some- 

 what shining, the former foveate in the middle and with the 

 eyes less prominent, the prothorax less elongate, obsoletely 

 unidentate laterally ; tiie antennae shorter, rapidly tapering 

 outwards. 



Length 2^ mm. 



Hub. Palawan I. {Baker : No. 16154). 



One ? . The testaceous antennae, tibiae, and tarsi, and 

 the very large transversely-subquadrate elytral spots, dis- 

 tinguish this insect from its numerous allies. 



29 {h). Laius waterstradti. 

 ? Laius waterstradti, Pic, L'Ecliange, xxv. p. 83 (c?) (1910). 



c? . Elongate, widened posteriorly, opaque, black, the 

 antennae (the apical two joints excepted), head (the base 

 excepted), and anterior legs in part, testaceous, the elytra 

 each with two very large, yellowish-white spots — one near 

 -the suture, just below the base, subtriangular, the other 

 on the disc before the apex, transverse. Head triangular, 

 rather long, sulcate down the middle in front, the sides of 

 the epistoma thus appearing tumid, the eyes prominent ; 

 antennae (fig. 5) long, joint 1 broadly, quadrangularly 

 dilated (as seen in profile), 2 enormously dilated, ear- 

 shaped, concave within, and angularly produced, reflexed, 

 and furnished with a slender, curved appendage at the 

 inner basal angle, 3-10 rather slender. Prothorax about 

 as long as broad, unarmed at the sides. Elytra rather 

 elongate. Legs short; anterior tarsi simple. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hab. Palawan I., Puerto Princesa {Bake?- : No. 428-1). 



One male, possibly referable to L. waterstradti, Pic, the 

 only tangible characters for which, as given in a compara- 

 tive table of the spotted Malayan species, are the testaceous 

 head and the enormously large, concave second (= third of 

 Pic) antennal joint of the male. L. palaivanus, I'ic (/. c), 

 type ? , is said to have the head distinctly raised in front 

 above the antennae and the elytra rather elongate. 



29 (i). Laius quadristrigatus, sp. n. 



$ . Elongate, widened posteriorly, opaque, finely pubes- 

 cent, densely, minutely, rugulosely punctate; nigro-piceous, 

 the head, joints 1 and 2 of the antennae, pruthorax, and 

 anterior femora testaceous or rufo-testaceous, the elytra 



