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any definite latei-al furrow or carina, the scrobe not quite passing 

 beneath the base of the rostrum ; ^ , rather shorter than the 

 body (4 : 5), the punctures finer, the scrobe quite latei'aL 

 Antennce inserted at ( cJ ) or behind ( 5 ) the middle of the 

 rostrum, the funicle with joint 1 distinctly longer than 2, 

 3 longer than 4, and 4-7 almost equal ; the club with joint 1 

 very slightly longer than 2, and 2 than 3. Prothorax distinctly 

 broader than long, the sides subparallel for a short distance from 

 the base, then roundly narrowing to the apex, the apical con- 

 striction obsolete ; the apical margin feebly arcuate dorsally, the 

 postocular lobes absent ; the upper surface reticulately punctate 

 throughout. Scutellum small, rounded, with a few minute setse. 

 Elytra a little longer than broad (6 : 5), the lateral margins 

 deeply sinuate, the apices jointly sinuate ; the basn.l sutural 

 depression deep and asymmetrical, the edge of the right elytron 

 being more depressed than that of the left, the apical portion of 

 the suture without erect spine-like setfe ; strise 9 and 10 not 

 quite reaching the base. Legs comparatively short, the hind 

 femora not exceeding the apex of the elytra ; the femoral teeth 

 sharp and spine-like, the hind tibiiB of the S with a deep notch 

 on the inner edge just at the top of the corbel. Venter with the 

 two basal segments of equal length behind the coxje ; segment 5 

 of J sinuate on its posterior edge and with a shallow apical 

 impression ; the pygidium with a dense pointed tuft of brown 

 hairs. 



Length, 4 mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. 



Sarawak : \ 6 , on flowers of Vernonia arhorea, Mt. Matang, 

 1000 ft., 10. ii. 14 (type), and \ S 1 ? , Quop, iv. 1914 

 {G. E. Bryant). 



6. Balaninus sesquilineatus, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 6.) 



5 . Colour dull black, with yellowish-white stripes ; the head 

 with a few sparse scales^ beneath ; the pronotum with a pale 

 central stripe, which is broadest at the base and gradually nar- 

 rows to the apex (the scales themselves being broad near the base 

 and diminishing towards the apex), and a small basal pale spot on 

 each side ; the elytra with a complete stripe of broad scales on 

 interval 2, that on 6 being obsolete in the basal third, the apical 

 half of intervals 7 and 8 and almost the whole of 9 and 10 

 thinly clothed with narrow whitish scales, and intervals 3 and 4 

 with a few pale scales at the apex ; the prosternum with a dense 

 patch of broad white scales in front of the coxfe, and isolated 

 narrow scales on the sides ; the meso- and metasterna with 

 separated broad scales, but these are densely packed on the mes- 

 epimeron and on the sides of the metasternum, except on a patch 

 at the base of the metepisternum where the scales are minute ; 

 the venter with fairly dense whitish scales of intermediate 

 width 



Head with the rostrum arisino; from well below the middle of 



