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excepta, scutelloque stramineis ; femoribus basi fulvis. Long. 
32 lin. 
Hab. Batchian. 
Narrower proportionally than the last, cylindrical, the ros- 
trum more slender, the third joint of the funicle not longer 
than the fourth, prothorax more coarsely punctured; the 
scutellum straw-yellow, like the elytra, except their apical 
portion ; the femora at the base the same colour or more in- 
clining to fulvous; beneath pale yellowish, with minute floccu- 
lent-looking scales. 
Alcides Kirschit. (Pl. XVIII. fig. 2.) 
A. robustus, subcylindricus, castaneo-fuscus ; elytris maculis quin- 
2 e . 2 . e e . 
que, mesosterni lateribus niveo-squamosis ; femoribus anticis dente 
parvo instructis. Long. 5 lin. 
Hab. Labuan. 
Robust, subcylindrical, covered with minute chestnut-brown 
scales ; a triangular spot common to both elytra at the base, a 
larger one at the side, an irregular one at the apex, nearly 
meeting its fellow, and the sides of the mesosternum snowy 
white; there are also a few white scales forming an undefined 
line on each side of the prothorax ; rostrum thickish ; antenne 
short, terminal joints of the funicle transverse; prothorax 
granulate, except at the apex, the intervals with rusty yellowish 
scales, the base subbisinuate ; scutellum subbilobed ; elytra 
broader than the prothorax at the base, striate-punctate, punc- 
tures coarsely rounded, interstices convex, narrow, granulate ; 
abdomen and mesosternum in the middle whitish grey; an- 
terior femora with a very small tooth. 
This species has two of the characters of the genus reduced 
nearly to a minimum, viz. the prothorax only slightly bisinu- 
ate at the base, and the tooth of the anterior femora almost 
obsolete. It is an isolated species, having something of the 
contour of A. excavatus. I have named it after the well- 
known Dresden entomologist. 
Alcides dedalus. 
A, subellipticus, niger, prothorace lineis tribus elytrisque quinque, 
intermediis abbreviatis, subgriseis notatus ; rostro valde tenuato. 
Long. 4 lin. : 
Hab. 'Tondano. 
Subelliptic, black, the prothorax with three, the elytra with 
five, pale fulvous lines, the two intermediate basal and abbre- 
viated, the inner running obliquely outwards from the scu- 
tellum to the apex, where it joins the outer somewhat flexuous 
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