S2'>eci'es of A\c\dc3 from the Oriental Re/jion. ;')07 



closer and longitudinally confluent, there being a low meditiu 

 carina which sometimes extends beyond tiie antennrc ; the 

 punctures in the ^ markedly coarser than in the $ . Antennee 

 slender, the scape nearly as long as the funicle and club 

 together; the funicle with joint 2 as long as but more slender 

 than 1, 3 longer than 4, 4 to 6 equal in length and longer 

 than broad, 7 more separated from the club than usual and 

 only as long as its basal joint. Prothorax rather transverse, 

 subconical, broadest at the base and rapidly narrowing in 

 front, the sides feebly rounded and with a distinct subapical 

 constriction ; the dorsal apical margin truncate, the post- 

 ocular lobes fceljle, and the dorsal outline only slightly 

 convex ; the dorsum with shallow rugulose j)unctures, many 

 of the interspaces forming irregular granule-like elevations, 

 which are coriaceous and opaque. Scutellum very small, 

 punctiform, not enclosed in front. Elytra oblong-ovate, a 

 little broader at the shoulders than the prothorax, obtusely 

 rounded at the aj)ex, and with a shallow transverse impression 

 near the base ; the striie deeper at the base and apex, else- 

 where containing large oblong punctures; the intervals 

 rather broader than the striae, very finely and transversely 

 rugulose. Leys (fig. 1,J) moderately long and slender, 

 rugosely punctate, clothed with sliort brown setaj and narrow 

 split scales ; the femora less clavate than usual, with a long 

 sharp tooth, followed by two or three denticulations ; the 

 front tibicC feebly curved externally and shallow ly bisinuate 

 within, the posterior pair simple. Stenium with the front 

 iutercosal space only one-third as wide as the median 

 one ; the metasternum coriaceous, feebly imd transversely 

 granulose. 



Lenyth 8*5-9'5 mm., breadth 3"25-3"75 mm. 



India : Manipur, Assam (Doherty). 



Described from six specimens. 



In general form, structure, and size very similar to 

 A. scenicus, Fst., but readily distinguished from this and all 

 its other allies by the very distinctive pattern, which 

 strikingly resembles that of a structurally very diflerent 

 species, A. liyatus, Pasc. 



AlciJes loratus, sp. n. (PI. VII. fig. 3.) 



^ ?. I'orm subcylindrical; integument black, with stripes 

 and bands composed of pale, narrow, plumose scales dusted 

 with pale yellow powdering; the forehead and base of the 

 rostrum with thin powdering; the pronotum with a narrow 

 median stripe from the base to beyond the middle, and a 



