370 DR. G. A. K. MARSHALL ON THE SPECIES 



margin almost vevtical at the sides, without any trace of post- 

 ocular lobes ; the upper surface with reticulate and partly con- 

 fluent punctures, with a mei'e ti'ace of a median smooth line, and 

 with short recumljent brown setae. Sciitellimi almost circular, 

 with a few minute pale seta?. Elytra moie elongate than usual, 

 the shoidders rather accentuated by a shallow sinuation just 

 behind them, the ajjices separately rounded, the lateral margins 

 very deeply sinuate above the meteiiisternum, the suture deeply 

 and quite symmetrically impressed in the basal half, and strife 

 9 and 10 not quite reaching the base. Legs thinly clothed with 

 recumbent wdiite setae, all the femora with a small sharp tooth ; 

 (5' with a short truncate process on the front coxfe, the front 

 femora with a fringe of long hairs beneath, the front tibiaswith a 

 broad internal tooth behind the middle, the hind femora with 

 a long sharp tooth midway between the usual tooth and the base, 

 the hind tibite strongly flattened internally and there clothed 

 with a fringe of long hairs ; 5 with the legs sim^ple, the inner 

 apical face of the front tibia? rather deeply excavated. Venter 

 with segments 1 and 2 extremely short behind the coxae, 1 being 

 shorter than 2, and the two together about as long as 3 along 

 the same line ; the outer angle of 2 strongly produced, almost 

 reaching the base of 4 and thus separating 3 from the elytra ; the 

 pygidium of d broadly exposed and very convex, with short 

 recumbent setae. 



Length, 3-8-4 mm. ; breadth, 1 '9-2 mm. 



Sarawak: Id, Mt. Matang, 1000 ft.. 13. ii. 14, and 1 $, 

 Mt. Merinjak, 2200 ft., 27. v. 14 {G. E. Bryant). 



A very distinct and aberrant species, not only in its colouring, 

 but also in the structure of the basal ventral segments and the 

 secondary sexual characters on the legs of the 6 , the additional 

 lower tooth on the hind femora being a very unusual feature 

 among the Curculionidse. 



2. Balaninus glabricollis, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 7.) 



5 . Black or dark piceous, shiny ; the whole of the lower sur- 

 face and the elytra (except the shoulders) densely covered with 

 elongate and apicall}^ truncate fawn-coloured scales, and a row of 

 similar scales along the basal margin of the pronotum. 



Head with the rostrum arising from about the middle of the 

 eye (in lateral view), the forehead with a central fovea, nearly 

 parallel-sided and almost as broad as the base of the rostrum. 

 Rostrum extremely long (14 mm., without allowing for the curve), 

 porrect for two-thirds of its length, densely punctate close to the 

 base, except for a rather broad smooth central line, wdthout any 

 lateral furrow or carina, the scrobe entirely lateral and not 

 extending beyond the antennae, uhitenvce inserted far behind 

 the middle of the rostrum : joint 1 of the funicle very long, as 

 long as the succeeding 3g joints, 3 nearly as long as 2, 4 a little 



