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gate, the two basal joints equal in length ; protliorax with 

 small remote punctures ; scutellum roundish ; eljtra seriate- 

 punctate, punctures small, remote, the interstices broad, 

 flattish, each elytron with a white spot near the scutellum, 

 three or four behind the middle, or connected so as to form a 

 band, and two near the apex ; body beneath smooth, the 

 sterna more or less covered with close-set whitish scales ; legs 

 slender; anterior tibite very slightly bisulcate. 



One of my specimens has the three intermediate abdominal 

 segments margined with close-set white scales and an addi- 

 tional white spot near the base of each elytron. This spscies 

 is somewhat remarkable in having the rostrum extremely 

 minutely punctured at the base as well as beyond to the apex. 



Alcides geminatus. 



A. oblongus, fiiscus, lineis griseis e pilis eondensatis ornatus ; rostro 

 piceo, elongate, tenuato, apice dilatato ; prothorace insequaliter 

 punctato, granulis parvis intermistis ; elytris rude striato-punc- 

 tatis. Long. 3| lin. 



Hah. Java. 



Oblong, dark brown, with a few lines of greyish hairs ; 

 rostrum pitchy, elongate, slender, much broader at the apex ; 

 antennse ferruginous, the second joint of the funicle shorter 

 than the first ; prothorax irregularly punctured, with a few 

 granules between the punctures, the disk with two narrow 

 greyish stripes and one on each side ; scutellum roundish ; 

 elytra nearly parallel at tlie sides, with linear punctured 

 strige, punctures subquadrate, the interstices rugose, each 

 elytron with an elongate, oblique, slightly flexaous stripe 

 proceeding from the shoulder, and a shorter oblique apical stripe 

 directed towards the suture ; body beneath with scattered 

 scales, except on the sterna ; anterior femora slender, their 

 tibi« slightly bisulcate. 



Very near A. infrusus, but with a slender elongate rostrum, 

 and more slender but scarcely longer antennse, and the pro- 

 thorax with two lateral instead of one median line on the 

 disk &c. 



Alcides Oherthiii'ii. 



A. obovatiis, fuscus, capita, rostro antennisque piceis ; elytris stria- 

 tis, striis setulis silaceis repletisjinterstitiis granulis nitidis plani- 

 usculis confertim instructis. Long. 4 lin. 



Hah. India*. 



* I owe my specimen to M. Rene Obertlilir. The habitat given on 

 his ticket is " Indes Orientales, Mts. Kodeicanel." I cannot hud this 

 name in Keith Johnston's large atlas. I believe, however, that they are in 

 Southern India. 



