Species of Alcides from the Oriental Rerjion. 399 



femora rather densely clothed with plumose seales and 

 bearinj:; a broad simple toutli, exeept the midille pair, whieli 

 has a uiiuiite additional tooth ; the tiljiie setose, the outer 

 edge strongly curved near the base in the anterior pairs, the 

 front pair carinate on the inner edge and with a deep basal 

 sinuation. Sternum with the space between the coxae prac- 

 tically the same in all three pairs ; the metasteruum finely 

 rugulose, not granulate. 



Length 7* 75-8- 5 mm., breadth 2*5-3 mm. 



Madras: Palni Hills, 6000ft., v. 1917 (P. B. Nathan, 

 type) ; Kodaikanal {T. V. Campbell) ; Mnnaar, Travancore. 



Described from seven specimens. 



Like an enlarged A. vafellus, Fst,, which it resembles 

 almost exactly in pattern, except that in that species the 

 transverse band on the elytra, when viewed laterally, slopes 

 more obliquely forwaixls ; further, the punctation of the 

 elytra is much coarser, the prothorax is much less abruptly 

 constricted in front, and the front tibite are only shallowly 

 sinuate at the base in A. vafellus. 



Alcides pyrifer, sp. n. (PI. VII. fig. 4.) 



S . Form suboblong; integument piceous black, with pale 

 markings formed of very small, fringed, overlapping, creamy- 

 white scales; on the pronotum and elytra is a large pear- 

 shaped area of the ground-colour surrounded by a line of 

 white scaling, which starts on the front margin of the 

 pronotum, continues on to the base of interval 5 of the 

 elytra, almost immediately passes to (5, then at one-third the 

 length to 7, continues on this to beyond the middle, and then 

 curves transversely inwards to the suture, being there nar- 

 rowly separated from the corresponding line on the other 

 side ; a little behind the middle on interval 8 a short line of 

 scaling contiguous with the stripe and a similar, rather 

 longer one on interval 9 ; a V-shaped white marking at the 

 apex of intervals 3 and 9 ; the pronotum with a faint, narrow, 

 median, pale line in the basal third and a sharply defined 

 lateral stripe on a line with interval 10 of the elytra ; the 

 lower surface with fairly dense, buff, fringed scales, the nieta- 

 notum with a large lateral patch of much denser silvery- 

 white scaling. 



Head with rather coarse confluent punctation, leaving two 

 small, transverse, smooth patches on a line with the upper 

 edge of the eye; the forehead with a faint transverse 

 impression at its junction with the rostrum and with an 

 inconspicuous median fovea. Rostrum elongate, gently 



