23G MR. F. P. PASCOE ON THE COLEOPTERA OF PENANG. [May 8, 



Sarawak, and Banca. It has been confounded with Agelasta arnica, 

 "White. 



Agelasta balteata. (PI. XXVI. fig. 9.) 



A. supra pube rufo-brwnnea induta, maculis plurirnis et fascia 

 elytrorum rufo-fuscis. 



Above with a short dense pale reddish-brown pubescence, mingled 

 with a few white hairs, with several spots and a band on the elytra 

 dark reddish brown ; spots on the head somewhat obscure, on the 

 piothorax about nine, the odd one nearly at the base ; scutellum 

 broadly triangular ; elytra with a well-marked band between the 

 middle and the base, and eight or nine spots on each posteriorly ; 

 body beneath pubescent, pale ashy; legs brownish, the tips of the 

 tibiae and the tarsi dark brown ; antennas brown, the base as far as 

 the middle of the third joint and bases of the fourth and fifth ashy. 

 Length 5 lines. 



Approaches in some respects A. newmani, which, however, is of 

 an ashy colour, with two bands on the elytra ; in both, the scape and 

 third and fourth joints are of equal length. 



Agelasta substrigosa. (PI. XXVI. fig. 8.) 



A. nigra, pube dispersa cinerea induta ; capite, prothorace, et 

 basi elytrorum granidis numerosis nigris nitidis instructis. 



Black, with small patches (on the elytra, posteriorly, lines) of pale 

 ashy pile ; head and prothorax with numerous small black shining 

 granules, between which are little patches of ashy hairs, the latter 

 narrowed behind, a little contracted anteriorly, the sides without any 

 projections ; scutellum transverse, nearly glabrous ; elytra subcylin- 

 drical, the base finely granulate, the middle with a few foveolate 

 punctures and three or four white spots on each side, towards the 

 apex indefinite longitudinal lines of pale ashy ; body beneath and 

 legs black, subnitid, with a mottled ashy pubescence, tarsi ashy, the 

 basal and apex of the claw-joint black ; antennae slender, about half 

 as long again as the body in the male, black, with the base speckled 

 with ashy, the bases of the fourth and fifth and eighth and ninth 

 joints ashy. Length 5 lines. 



An interesting species, resembling in colour A. irrorata, but more 

 cylindrical than any other member of the genus, and furnished with 

 little granuliferous points rising in an exceedingly definite manner 

 from the derm. In this species the third joint of the antennae has 

 a double curve, and is considerably longer than any other. The 

 technical characters of Agelasta are extremely variable, yet, notwith- 

 standing, it is a very natural genus and very readily recognized. 



iEsoPIDA. 



JEsopida, J. Thomson, Syst. Ceramb. p. 62. 



iEsopiDA malasiaca, J. Thomson, /. c. p. 02. 

 Apparently not uncommon in Malacca. 



