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XLIX. — On new Sjjccics of Alc.idcs from the Oriental 

 l\e(jion. I*>y Guv A. K. Marshall, C.M.G., D.Sc. 



[Plate VII.] 



Alcides crinalifer, sp. n. (PI. VII. fig. 1.) 



^ ? . Integument black, clothed above (between the shiny 

 granules) with small, narrow, non-contiguous, fawn-coloured 

 scales that are somewhat fimbriate at the apex, and witii the 

 following creamy-wliite markings, that are formed of dense, 

 overlapping, ))road, plumose scales : a median stripe on the 

 base ot" the rostrum and covering the Avhole forehead; three 

 stripes on the pronotum, the median being a little narrower 

 than the laterals ; the elytra with a broad stripe continuous 

 with the lateral one on the prothorax, commencing on 

 intervals 5 and 6 at the base, but soon passing on to intervals 

 G, 7, and half of 8, and so continuing to the apex ; a stripe 

 starting just behind the scutellum, running for a short dis- 

 tance along interval 1, and turning obliquely outwards to 

 join the lateral stripe before the middle ; and, finally, a stripe 

 starting on the suture behind the middle, running obliquely 

 to interval 3, and continuing straight along that interval to 

 the apex ; the lower surface with dense, fawn-coloured, 

 plumose scales, which are more sparse in the middle of 

 the metasternum and venter, the last veutrite being mainly 

 bare. 



Head with close shallow punctuation on the vertex, the 

 forehead with a broad, shallow, punctate depression, which is 

 filled up with scaling. Rostrum shorter than the front 

 femur in botli sexes, feebly curved, slightly dilated at the 

 apex, coarsely punctate as far as the antenuie (slightly less 

 so in ? than in J ), and with a shallow, median, longi- 

 tudinal impression in the basal half, filled with scaling. 

 Prothorax transverse, broadest at the base, and narrowing 

 rather rapidly at the apex, with the sides gently rounded and 

 shallowly constricted at the apex ; the postocular lobes well 

 developed; the dorsum Avith fairlylarge, separated, low, shining 

 granules, except on the three pale stripes, the lower lateral 

 niargin of the granulate area sharply defined. Scutellum 

 not enclosed, transverse, bare, either flattened, shallowly 

 impressed, or with a very deep impression. Elytra very 

 elongate-ovate, broader than the prothorax at the shoulders, 

 which are very sloping, and thence gradually narrowed to 

 the apices, which are slightly dehiscent ; the basal lobes 



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