30G Dr. G. A. K. Marslmll on new 



broader at the sliouklers than the prothorax, the basal lobes 

 not very strongly produced, the apices jointly rounded ; the 

 strife with comparatively small shallow punctures and not 

 deeper or noticeably curved at the base ; the intervals with 

 irregular low grannies, which are more numerous on the basal 

 li:ilf and absent from the si]uamose areas, the darker areas 

 \>ith numerous short, recumbent, pale setie ; a very shallow 

 curved impression just l)ehind the scutellum. Le^s com- 

 ])aratively short, shallowly punctate, and rather thinly 

 covered with linear scales ; the femora with a short simple 

 tooth almost hidden by setse ; the tibia? almost straight on 

 the outer edge, the front pair not tootlied on the inner edge 

 and only faintly bisinuate (fig. 1, b). 



Lenyth C*5-8 mm., breadth 3-3"5 mm. 



^Madras : Kodaikaual [T. V. Campbell, type) ; Palni Hills, 

 GOOO ft. (P. B. Nathan). 



Described from ten specimens. 



Closely resembles A. andax, Heller, in general facies, but 

 in that species the humeral stripe on the elytra is replaced 

 by a subhumcral spot, the oblique posterior stiipes meet on 

 the suture in front of the middle and do not extend along 

 the lateral margin to the apex, and the non-s(juamose areas 

 of the elytra bear only sparse inconspicuous dark setffi. 



Alcides trigonophorus , sp. n. (PI. YII. fig. 10.) 



S ? . Form subelliptical ; integument black, thinly clothed 

 with short, recumbent, brown setae and marked with narrow 

 pale lines formed of whitish scales that are narrowly bifid or 

 trifiil to the base ; the prothorax with five sliar[)ly defined 

 pale stripes, the upper lateral one terminating at the base 

 opposite the shoulder of the elytron, the lower lying below 

 the level of the lateral margin of the elytron ; the elytra 

 with a subtriangular marking formed by a narrow oblujue 

 line on each, running from the base of stria 1 to behind the 

 middle on interval 9, and there connected together by a post- 

 median curved line of the same width; a ])alc line on 

 interval 9 from the base to one-third the length and another 

 at the apex of interval 3 ; the lower surface clothed with 

 numerous brown plumose scales. 



lltad with shallow confluent punetation and narrow sjjlit 

 scales, the forehead transversely impressed, liostrwn long 

 and slender, slightly widened at the insertion of the anteiin<e 

 (bevond the middle in both sexes) and agiiin at the apex, 

 rather strongly })iinctate throughout (exeej)t at the extreme 

 apex in the $ ), but the punctures on the posterior part 



