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postocular lobes ; the upper surface with shallow reticulate punc- 

 tation and a mere trace of a raised cexitral line, Sciotellum 

 punctiform. Elytra with the lateral margins not sinuate, the 

 apices jointly rounded, the sutural impression not very deep and 

 asymmetrical, being almost confined to the right elytron, and the 

 suture with a row of raised bristles near the apex. Legs mode- 

 rately long, but the hind femora scarcel}'^ exceeding the apex of 

 the elytra ; the tooth on the femora narrow and sharp, the basal 

 sinuation of the tibipe shallow, and only the front tibia? with the 

 dorsal edge slightly sinuate. 



Length, 8 mm. ; breadth, 1'5 mm. 



Sarawak : 1 $ , Puak, 3. v. 1914 ((?. E. Bryaiit). 



32. Balaninus discrexicoxis, sp. n, (PI. II. fig. 7.) 



$ . Colour brownish black, subnitid, and apparently bare 

 above, but really with minute dark recumbent sette and markings 

 of straw-yellow scales ; the pronotum with a narrow median 

 stripe (the scales longitudinal, broad at the base and narrow in 

 front), a bi'oader lateral strij^e on each side extending frona the 

 base to the middle (scales oblique), and a spot on each side near 

 the apex ; the scutellum densely scaled ; the elyfci'a with a broad 

 stripe on the basal third of intervod 1 and extending partly on to 

 2, and about half-way between the end of this stripe and the 

 apex a spot reaching from the middle of interval 2 to the middle 

 of interval 3 ; the prosternvim with an antecoxal patch that is 

 whitish in the middle and. yellow laterally; the mesosternum, 

 metasternum, and the two basal abdominal segments each with a 

 large patch of very dense straw-yellow scales. 



Head coarsely punctate, bare, with the forehead distinctly 

 broader than the base of the rostrum, which ai'ises slightly below 

 the middle of the eye. liosirum as long as the body, very slender, 

 almost of equal width throughout, veiy smooth and shiny, scarcely 

 punctate even at the bfise, and without any lateral furrow or 

 carina; the scrobe entirely lateral and not exceeding the antenna. 

 Antenna' inserted far behind the middle of the rostrum, with the 

 scape reaching the eye ; the funicle with joint 1 equal to 2 + 3, 

 and joints 3-7 very slightly and progressively diminishing in 

 length ; the club equal to the three preceding joints, with joint 1 

 slightly longer than 2. Prothorax almost as long as broad, the 

 sides gently rounded, broadest about the middle, the apical con- 

 striction slight, the apical margin truncate dorsally and without 

 postocular lobes ; the upper surface with shallow reticulate punc- 

 tures throughout. Scutellum. almost circular. Elytra with the 

 lateral margins straight, the apices jointly sinuate, the basal 

 sutural impression short, shallow, and quite symmetrical, the 

 apical third of the suture with luised dark bristles, and stria 9 

 remote from the base, fjegs long, slender, and spai'sely clothed 

 with small I'ecumbent white seta? ; the hind femora shortly 

 exceeding the apex of the elytra, the femoral teeth small and 



