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



reaching the eye ; the f unicle with joint 1 very slightly longer 

 than 2, and 3 longer than 4, joints 4, 5 and 7 subequal and 6 a 

 little shorter ; the club as long as the preceding 2^ joints, its first 

 joint nearly twice as long as its second, Prothorax broader than 

 long (6 : 5), broadest at the base, with the sides almost straight 

 and gradually narrowing from the base to the middle, then rounded 

 and with a distinct but shallow apical constriction, the apical 

 margin truncate dorsally and without any postocular lobes ; the 

 upper surface regularly and reticulately punctate thi'oughout. 

 Scutellum subquadrate, with a few minute brownish scales. 

 Elytra with the lateral margins not sinuate, jointly rounded at 

 the apex, the sutural ixnpression very broad, deep and almost 

 symmetrical, the apical third of the suture with raised inter- 

 locking black bristles. Legs long ajid slender, thinly clothed with 

 white setiform scales; the hind femora with almost the whole 

 clavate portion extending beyond the elytra, the tooth on the 

 femora triangular at the base ; the tibise straight, without any 

 basal sinuation. 



Length, 5*5 mm. ; breadth, 3 mm. 



Sarawak : 1 $ , Lundu, 6. i. 1914 {G. E. Bryant). 



20 Balaninus quincunx, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 11.) 



(5 5 . Black, dull or subnitid, thinly clothed above with 

 blackish narrow scales or setae, and with markings formed of 

 broad white scales; the pronotum with a transverse elliptical 

 basal white patch on each side extending from stria 3 almost to 

 the mesepimeron ; the elytra with a short white stripe at the 

 base of interval 1, behind the middle a transverse macular patch 

 on intervals 2 and 3, on the same line with it a band on intervals 

 7-10 (or 6-10), and a short apical white stripe on interval 1 ; 

 the lower surface fairly closely covered with separated broad 

 white scales, with the usual denser lateral patches, that on the 

 prosternum extending upwards along the apical constriction to 

 the level of the middle of the eye. 



Head with the rostrum arising well above the middle of the 

 eye, its upper sui-face being on a level with the top of the eye in 

 both sexes. Rostrum — S , two-thirds the length of the body, 

 the basal portion coarsely punctate, with a smooth median line 

 and a broad lateral farrow bounded below by a sha,rp carina, the 

 scrobe passing beneath the I'ostrum at some distance from the 

 base and distinctly extending beyond the antennae ; in the 5 > 

 nearly as long as the body and more strongly curved, the puncta- 

 tion much finer and the lateral furrow less distinct. Antennce 

 inserted at ( c^ ) or somewhat behind ( $ ) the middle of the 

 I'ostrum, the scape not nearly reaching the eye ; the funicle with 

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

 equal ; the club a,bout equal to the three preceding joints, and its 

 first joint distinctly longer than the second. Prothorax ( c? ) 

 distinctly transverse, the sides subparallel from the base to the 



