Species 0/ Laiiis /Vom the Malayan Region, 203 



10 excepted) and legs (the bases of tlie femora excepted) 

 testaceous, the elytra each with two very large, transversely 

 subquadrate, yellowish spots; the head and prothorax some- 

 what shining, the former foveate in the middle and with the 

 eyes less prominent, the prothorax less elongate, obsoletely 

 nnidentate laterally; tlie antennae shorter, rapidly tapering 

 outwards. 



Length 2^ mm. 



Hab. Palawan I. [Baker : No. 16154). 



One ? . The testaceous antennae, tibiae, and tarsi, and 

 the very large transversely-subquadrate elytral spots, dis- 

 tinguish this insect from its numerous allies. 



29 (as). Laius ivaterstradti. 

 ? Laius ivaterstradti, Pic, L'Echange, xxv. p. 83 ((j') (1910). 



c^ . Elongate, widened posteriorly, opaque, black, the 

 antennae (the apical two joints excepted), head (the base 

 excepted), and anterior legs in part, testaceous, the elytra 

 each with two very large, yellowish-white spots — one near 

 the suture, just below the base, subtriangular, the other 

 on the disc before the apex, transverse. Head triangular, 

 rather long, sulcate down the middle- in front, the sides ot 

 the epistoma thus appearing tumid, the eyes prominent ; 

 antennae (fig. 5) long, joint 1 broadly, quadrangularly 

 dilated (as seen in profile), 2 enormously dilated, ear- 

 shaped, concave within, and angularly produced, reflexed, 

 and furnished with a slender, curved appendage at the 

 inner basal angle, 3-10 rather slender. Prothorax about 

 as long as broad, uuarmed at the sides. Elytra rather 

 elongate. Legs short; anterior tarsi simple. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hab. Palawan L, Puerto Princesa [Baker: No. 4284). 



One male, possibly referable to L. waterstradti, Pic, the 

 only tangible characters for which, as given in a compara- 

 tive table of the spotted Malayan species, are the testaceous 

 head and the enormously large, concave second ( = third of 

 Pic) autennal joint of the male. L. palawanus, Pic (/. c), 

 type ? , is said to have the head distinctly raised in front 

 above the antennae and the elytra rather elongate. 



29 (i). Laius quadristrigaius, sp. n. 



(J . Elongate, widened posteriorly, opaque, finely pubes- 

 cent, densely, minutely, ruguloselj' punctate ; nigro-piceous, 

 the head, joints 1 and 2 of the antennae, prothorax, and 

 anterior femora testaceous or rufo-testaceous, the elytra 



