204 Mr. F. P. Pascoe's Catalogue o/Zygopinge 



cies. It may be added that there is no ground for believing 

 these varieties to be local subspecies. The descriptions below 

 are all made from males ; and it will be seen that two of them 

 are without pectoral spines. There are a few other species in 

 Mr. Wallace's collection ; one of them is M. trilineatus^ Guer., 

 which was found in the islands of Aru and Waigiou as well 

 as in New Guinea. 



Mecopus spinicollis. PI. XV. fig. 8. 



M. sat breviter obovatus, ater, supra maculatim albo-squamosus, 

 infra squamis albis dispersis ; rostro prothorace duplo loiigiore, 

 supra quinquecarimilato, basi silaceo-squamoso ; antenuis nigris, 

 funiculo articulo secuudo quam tertio duplo longiore ; prothorace 

 transverso, ampliato, medio anticc paulo gibboso, in utroque latere 

 cavitate sat profunda impresgo at extrorsum spinis duabus erectis 

 instructo, supra granulis opacis plurimis sat vage inter squamas 

 detectis ; elytris basi prothorace angustioribus, dorso planatis et 

 versus scutellum paulo excavatis, sulcato-punctatis, interstitiis 

 4°, 5°, 6° spinis brevibus uniseriatira remote armatis ; cornibus 

 rectis, subulatis ; pedibus minus elougatis, albo-squamosis, con- 

 cinne nigro annulatis. Long. 5 lin. 



Hob. Java. 



In my specimen there are only two, but in the British Museum 

 there is one with four or five shorter spines on each side. In 

 the female they are replaced by tubercles. 



Mecopus cuneiformis. 



M. oblongus, postice gradatim attenuatus, nigro-piceus, silaceo- 

 squamosus, femoribus elytrisque aliquando squamis niveis irro- 

 ratis ; rostro prothorace duplo longiore, quinquccarinulato, basi 

 genisque silaceo-squamosis ; auteuuis nigris, funiculo niveo- 

 piloso, articulo secundo quam tertio triplo longiore ; prothorace 

 plus minusve ampliato, utrinque fortiter rotuudato, supra sub- 

 vage granidato ; elytris anguste cuneatis, dorso planatis, striato- 

 punctatis, interstitio quinto uniseriatim spinoso, reliquis exteriori- 

 bus aspcrato-elevatis, apicibus truncatis, augulo externo tubercu- 

 lato-productis ; corpore infra dense albo-squamoso, maculis fuscis 

 dispersis ; femoribus supra silaceo-squamosis, reliquis albo sparsis. 

 Long. 4-5 lin. 



Hab. Sarawak. 



In one or two of my specimens there are brown spots on 

 the middle of the elytra. What I take to be the female has 

 the apices of the elytra rounded. Another species very close 

 to this, from Java, has the elytra mucronate in both sexes ; 

 but my male specimen is in too poor a condition for description. 



