Species of A\c'\des froin the Oriental lleyion. 409 



tootli ; tlie front tibiae peiitly curved externally, strongly 

 bisinuate internally and with an obtuse-an<;led tooth behind 

 the middle, the median pair very feebly bisinuate witliin, 

 the hind [)air short and simple. Sternum with the front 

 iutercoxal space much narrower tliau the median one; the 

 metasternum sparsely granulate. 



Length 8-9^ mm., breadth 2"5-3*25 mm. 



Sarawak: Mt. ^Matang, i. 1914, Quop, iii. 1911 (type), 

 Puak, V. 191 1 (G. E. Bryant). 



Described from six specimens. 



Structurally this species belongs to the group represented 

 by A. chiliarchus, Boh., and A. ligatus, Pasc, but may 

 readily be recognised by its very distinctive pattern ; the 

 internal tooth on the front tibia? is not so strongly developed 

 as in the two species mentioned. 



Alcides vitalisi, sp. u. (PI. VII. fig. 11.) 



(^ ? . Body markedly flattened, as though adapted for 

 subcortical habits ; integument dark piceous, the head, pro- 

 thorax, and the humeral angles of the elytra black ; the pale 

 scales on the prothorax forming only a faint median line, 

 and fairly numerous on the pleurte; the elytra with a broad 

 transverse band of rather sparse, pale plumose scales behind 

 the middle, extending from the lateral margin to stria 3 or 

 2, its anterior edge with a long projection on interval 5 and 

 the hind margin angulate on interval 6; in addition, an 

 indefinite preapical band of scales, which is broadly inter- 

 rupted on the suture. 



Head closely and coarsely punctate, the forehead flattened 

 but without any median fovea. Rostrum unusually slender 

 (especially in the ? ), straight, quite cylindrical, and almost 

 porrcct ; in the ? , longer, with the antennae inserted far 

 behind the middle, coarsely punctate in the basal third only, 

 the distal portion being glabrous with extremely minute 

 sparse punctures, the dorsal outline rising sharply (about 

 30°) near the junction with the head, the actual base being 

 somewhat above the level of the forehead ; in the ^ shorter, 

 with the antennse at the middle, coarsely and confluently 

 punctate to beyond the middle and with three irregular 

 narrow carinse, the apical portion with well-marked 

 separated punctures, and the basal dorsal elevation much 

 less marked. Antennce with the scape only as long as the 

 first G joints of the funicle ; joint 1 of the f unicle as long as 

 the next 2^ joints, joints 2-G all transverse, 7 as long as the 

 club and longer than the three preceding joints. Pruthurux 



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