NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA 101 
than is the case in the 3 allied species but all the other cha- 
racters peculiar to the genus and pointed out by myself are 
present. 
86. Antipha variabilis, n. sp. 
Ovate, widened behind, black; antennae fulvous; thorax finely 
and remotely punctured, obsoletely impressed; elytra moderately 
closely punctured, black, a broad transverse band below the 
middle, rufous. 
Var. a. Elytra black, their apices and the abdomen fulvous. 
Var. b. Anterior portion of the elytra, the breast and legs, 
fulvous. 
Length 3 lines. 
Head impunctate; the frontal tubercles transversely shaped, 
not strongly raised, divided by the extreme apex of the clypeus; 
palpi slender, not thickened; antennae slender, fulvous, the se- 
cond joint short, the third and following joints elongate nearly 
equal; thorax transverse, narrow, the sides nearly straight, the 
anterior angles truncate, oblique and slightly thickened, surface 
obsoletely and obliquely depressed at each side, very finely and 
distantly punctured; scutellum broad, trigonate; elytra gradually 
widened posteriorly, more distinctly but scarcely more closely 
punctured than the thorax, their epipleurae broad anteriorly 
gradually narrowed towards the apices; tibiae unarmed; the - 
first joint of the posterior tarsi longer than the 3 following 
joints united; claws appendiculate; prosternum narrow but 
distinctly separating the anterior coxae; their cavities closed. 
_ Hab. Borneo, Sarawak (Doria and Beccari). 
This insect bears again a great resemblance to Macrima pal- 
lidicornis and particularly to Antipha abdominalis Jac. In the 
latter species however, the thorax is without depressions, the 
second and third joints of the antennae are small and subequal 
and the elytra are more closely and more finely punctured; the 
palpi also are distinctly thickened; in both species however the 
same structural characters in regard the coxal cavities unarmed 
