380 DR. G. A. K. MARSHALL ON THE SPECIIiS 



12. BaLANINUS NIGRORUPUS, Sp. 11. (PI. I. fig. 1.) 



d . General colour ferruginous, tlie elytra black ; the foi'eliead 

 and a nari'ow centiul stripe on the pronotum with dense j-ellow 

 scales, the sides of the latter with scattered and narrower yellow 

 scales ; the elytra with the following yellow scaling : a dense 

 stripe on interval 2 from the base to the middle, a transverse 

 postmedian band on intervals 3-5, and widely scattered isolated 

 scales elsewhere, interspersed with hair-like white scales ; the 

 unrlersirle for the most part rather thinly clothed with narrow 

 yellowish scales, a compact patch of broad creamy scales before 

 the front coxse, and a- similar patch on the mesepimeron ai:id on 

 the whole side of the metasternum. 



Head with the rostrum arising from above the middle of the 

 eye. Rostrum about half the length of the body, with five 

 narrow carinse at the base, the intervening striae being shallowly 

 punctate, the scrobes passing beneath the rostrum at the base 

 and scarcely extending beyond the antennae. Antennce inserted 

 distinctly beyond the middle of the rostrum, the scape not 

 reaching the eye ; the funicle with joint 1 a little longer than 2, 

 joints 3 and 4 equal, 5 and 6 a trifle shorter and equal, 7 equal 

 to 3 ; the club with joint 1 longer than 2, and 2 than 3. 

 Prothorax a trifle broader than long, the sides slightly rounded, 

 the apical constriction almost obsolete ; the apical margin slightly 

 arcuate dorsally, with very feeble postocula.r lobes ; the upper 

 surface with rather shallow and partly confluent reticula,te punc- 

 tures. Scutellum elongate and clothed with dense yellow scales. 

 Elytra slightly longer than broad, the lateral margins sinuate, 

 the apices almost jointly rounded ; the basal sutural depression 

 broad and deep, and almost symmetrical, the apical third of the 

 suture with short, obliquely raised scales, strife 9 and 10 not 

 reaching the base. Legs comparatively short, the hind femora 

 not exceeding the apex of the elytra, the femoral teeth short and 

 sharp : the front coxfe with a conical process ; the hind tibise 

 Avith three-fourths of the upper surface clothed with broad yellow 

 scales, all the remaining scales on all the lee-s beinaf setiform and 

 white. Venter with segment 1 much longer than 2 behind the 

 coxae. 



Length, 4'6 mm. ; breadth, 2*6 mm. 



Sarawak: 1 d" , Kuching, 1897 {R. Shelford. type); 1 d , 

 Quop, 7. iv. 1914 {G. E. Bryant). 



13. Balaninus subpartitus, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 6.) 



5 . Colour black, variegated with dark brown , bright fawn and 

 white scales ; the head beneath with small separated white scales ; 

 the pronotum with scattered fawn and white scales at the sides 

 and with a broad median stripe of elongate fawn scales, which is 

 broadest near the base and gradually narrows in front, the scales 

 converging towards a point on the median line behind the middle ; 

 the scutellum with dense silvery white scales ; the elytra thinly 



