OF BALANINUS OCCURRING IN BORNEO. 381 



clothed for the most part with fawn or brown scales and a few 

 scattered white ones, with a veiy indefinite transverse band 

 behind the middle formed principally of white scales ; the proster- 

 nnm with large separated white scales on the antecoxal area and 

 fine white and brown scales at the sides ; the rest of the sternum 

 with narrow white and fawn scales, except for a dense patch of 

 white ones on the mesepimeron ; the venter with dense white 

 scaling on the two basal segments, and fawn scales on the others. 



Head with the upper surface of the rostrum on a line with 

 the top of the eye. Rostrwnx strongly bent downwaids beyond 

 the middle, about two-thirds the length of the body, strongly 

 punctate in the basal section, with a low central carina, as well 

 as a lateral one, but no lateral furrow, the scrobe passing beneath 

 the base of the rostrum but not exceediug the antenna. AntewiKX 

 inserted far behind the middle of the rostrum ; the funicle with 

 the two basal joints equal, 3 longer than 4, 4-7 subequal and 

 with appressed white setse ; the club ovate, as long as the two 

 preceding joints and clothed with golden pubescence, joint 1 

 rather longer than 2, and 2 than 3. Prothorax much broader 

 than long (10 : 7), broadest at the base, the sides strongly i^ounded, 

 the apical constriction deep, the apical margin truncate dorsally 

 and with distinct postocular lobes ; the upper surface with deep 

 reticulate punctures. Scutellum strongly elevated, longer than 

 broad. Elytra with the lateral margins not sinuate, the apices 

 jointly rounded, the sutural impression rather shallow and asym- 

 metrical, interval 1 of the right elyti'on being lower and broader 

 than that of the left, the apical half of the suture with stout 

 raised spine-like bristles, striae 9 and 10 not nearly reaching the 

 base. Legs moderately long and stout ; the hind femoiu some- 

 what exceeding the end of the elytra, the femoral teeth broad 

 and sharp, that of the hind pair broadly laminate and ending in 

 a sharp point ; all the tibiaj clothed above with broader scales, 

 the basal sinuation obsolete on the anterior pairs, but well marked 

 on the hind one, the upper edge of which is distinctly sinuate. 



Length, 4"4-4"6 mm. ; breadth, 2'5-2"6 mm. 



Sarawak : 1 $ , on flowers of Verno7iia arbor ea, Mt. Matang, 

 1000 ft., 12. ii. 1914, and 1 $ , Mt. Merinjak., 1500 ft., 25. v. 1914 

 (G. E. Bryant). 



14. Balaninus mcestus, sp. n. 



$ . Black, thinly clothed above with recumbent white setae 

 and without any markings formed of scales ; the scutellum with 

 dense white scales ; the lower surface thinly clothed with white 

 setse or narrow scales, with the following broader white scales : 

 a few on the prosternum in front of the coxse, a dense patch on 

 the mesepimeron, a small patch at the apex of themetepisternum, 

 and a small lateral patch on the 2nd ventral segment. 



Head with the rostrum arising from above the middle of the 

 eye. Rostrum shorter than the body (5 : 7), punctate at the 



