406 Dr. G. A. K. Marsliall on neto 



or less confluent lonoritudinally ; in tlic ? a little longer 

 and with the {)un(;tation niucli finer. Prutliorax rather 

 broader than long, subparallel-sided for a short distance 

 from the base, then roundly narrowed and strongly con- 

 stricted at the apex ; the apical margin narrowly lobate in 

 the middle dorsally, the postocular lobes well marked ; the 

 dorsal outline gently convex longitudinally, deepest in 

 the middle ; the dorsum with dense, low, rounded granules, 

 each with a short recumbent seta on its anterior edge, the 

 interstices thinly clothed with setiforra scales ; there is a 

 trace of a shallow median stria, terminating in a deep 

 impression on the basal lobe. Scuiellum not enclosed, some- 

 what pyriform, with a few minute scales, and sometimes 

 with a shallow median impression. Elytra subcylindrical, 

 distinctly broader than the prothorax, with rounded 

 shoulders and with a shallow, curved, transverse impression 

 just behind the scutellum; the striie with deep quadrate 

 punctures, each containing a minute horizontal seta, but 

 most of them more or less filled up with scaling or powder- 

 ing, stria3 3-5 deeper at the base and curving outwards; the 

 intervals broader than the striic, plane, and closely punctate 

 or finely rugulose, 2-5 more or less granulate towards the 

 base ; the scales small, oblong, fringed at the apex and 

 somewhat curved. Legs (fig. 1, /) dark pieeous, sparsely 

 clothed with similar but larger, scales ; the femora with 

 coarse confluent punctation and armed with a stout simple 

 tooth ; the tibiae I'eticulately punctate, with a sharp tooth 

 on the inner edge above the middle (reduced to a mere 

 angulation on the hind pair) and another near the apex. 



Length 12-13 mm., breadth 5'25-5'5 mm. 



Assam : Silouibari, N. Lakhimpur, v.-vii. 1911 (//. 

 Stevens) . 



Described from four specimens. 



Like a very large specimen of A. improvidus, Fst., hut 

 without any pale markings ; in the hitter species .the 

 shoulders of the elytra are less prominent, the intervals are 

 much narrower than the stride, more rugulose, and very 

 sparsely punctate. 



Alcides gmelina.', sp. n. 



J ? . Integument black, or the head and thorax black 

 and the elytra and legs red-bi'own : the elytra with a 

 narrow, ill-defined, pale band across the top of the declivity 

 composed of narrow feather-scales, and a still less distinct 

 stripe of similar sparser scales running from behind the 

 scutellum towards the middle of the lateral margin. 



