Species 0/ Alcides /'rom t/ir Oriental Region. 395 



four small teeth in front of it (fig. 1,«); the tibiae simple 

 iutenuilly. 



Length 8"5-10mm., breadth 3"5— 1mm. 



Madras : Ouchtcrlony Valley, 4500 ft., Nilgiri Hills 

 (//. L, Andrewes) ; Ootacamund. 



Described from four speeimens. 



Most nearly allied strueturally to A. acutus, Fst., but with 

 markiuf^s suggestive of tlie group represented by A, tceniatns^ 

 Illlr.j and A. vinculosus, Illlr. ; the pattern is, however, 

 quite distinctive, especially the broad continuous stripe on 

 intervals 6 and 7 and the hairpiu-Iike marking on the 

 declivity. 



Alcides habenatus, sp. n. (PI. VII. fig. 2.) 



^ ? . Form elliptical: integument black, with stripes and 

 bands formed of dense, creamy-white, plumose scales ; the 

 piothorax with a narrow median stripe and a broader bilateral 

 stripe, ending on the base opposite intervals 5 and 6 of the 

 elytra, and below this an ill-defined broad stripe on the 

 pleura?; the elytra thinly clothed with short brown setas and 

 with the following pale markings : a broad curved intra- 

 humeral stripe, starting at the base on intervals 5 and 6, 

 turning outwards just behind the shoulder on to intervals 

 7-10 and ceasing a little before the middle, its inner edge 

 forming a regular curve or with a more or less distinct 

 re-entrant angle; a broad oblique band (of varying width) 

 starting at the middle of interval 2 and slo})ing backwards to 

 join the proximal end of a broad lateral stripe that occupies 

 more than the apical third of intervals 7-9 ; and, finally, a 

 stripe on the apical fourth of interval 3 ; the lower surface 

 fairly densely covered with buff plumose scales. 



Head with close shallow punctation and without a frontal 

 fovea. Rostrum moderately stout, as long as the front femur 

 in ? , shorter in J , a little narrower in the basal than in the 

 apical half, and with the antennee inserted far beyond the 

 middle in both sexes ; the dorsal outline shallow sinuate in 

 the basal half, the punctation fairly strong and close in ^J, 

 and but little finer in ? . Prothorax a little broader than 

 long, subconical, widest at the base, regularly narrowing in 

 front, with the sides gently rounded and the subapical con- 

 striction shallow ; the apical margin subtruncate dorsally ; 

 the longitudinal outline flat behind and gently sloping in 

 front; the dorsum closely set throughout with low rounded 

 granules, which are very much reduced on the apical area. 

 Scutellum puuctiform, bare. Elytra elongate-ovate, distinctly 



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