NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 191fi. 359 



ANTHRIBIDAE COLLECTED BY MONSIEUR I. VITALIS 

 DE SALVAZA IN ERENCH INDO-CHINA. 



By KARL JORDAN, Ph.D. 



(With 4 text-figures.) 



THE specimens of Anthribidae which Monsieur I. Vitalis de Salvaza ohtained on 

 his travels in Cambodja, Annani, and Tonkin were very kindly submitted by 

 him to me with the request to work them out. Very little has been recorded 

 from these countries besides the few species I have described in Nov. Zool. on 

 various occasions. The present collection contains only nineteen species, which is 

 undoubtedly a very small percentage of the species actually occurring. The total 

 absence in this collection of representatives of Acorynus and Litocerus is remarkable, 

 considering that these genera have an abundance of species in the Malayan conn- 

 tries, and are also well represented on Formosa. The collection is nevertheless a 

 very welcome contribution to our knowledge of the distribution of the Anthribidae, 

 and, moreover, contains several species which are undescribed. The types of these 

 novelties are in the Tring Museum, and I take the opportunity of thanking 

 Monsieur Vitalis de Salvaza once more for his generosity in presenting them to 

 our collection in addition to other specimens. 



1. Phloeopemon acuticornis Fabr. (1801) 



Anthribus acuticornis Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth. 2. p. 405. no. 4 (1801) (Sumatra). 



A fairly common Indo-Malayan species. Monsieur Vitalis obtained a series 

 collected in various places in Annam and Tonkin, the species being met with by him; 

 in all months from May to August. 



2. Meganthribus harmandi harmandi Lesne (1891) 



Eugigas harmandi Lesne, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, p. 91 (1891) (Cochinchina ; Cambodja). 

 A single ? from Sambor, Cambodja, September 1912. 



3. Mecotropis vitticollis tonkinianus subsp. nov. (text-fig. 2) 



$ . The median vitta of the pronotum is broader than in M. v. vitticollis Jord.. 

 (1895), from Assam, the two dorsal spots (one on each side) are united with it, and 

 the dorsal lateral vitta is replaced by some spots. The greyish buff markings of the 

 elytra are larger ; there is in interspace 4 a short basal stripe, more or less joined to 

 the sutnral vitta, but no oblique line above the shoulder-angle ; the apical patch is 

 much larger, and the spots in the median area of the elytra are more numerous. 

 The greyish-white median ring of the tibiae is broader ; the meso-metasterna and 

 the first abdominal segment are broadly black in the centre, and the mesosternal 

 intercoxal process is much broader than in M. v. vitticollis (cf. text-figs. 1, tonkini-. 

 anus ; 2, vitticollis). 



As in M. v. vitticollis, segments 6, 7, and 8 of the antenna are entirely white. 



1 ? from Chapa, via Lao Kay, Upper Tonkin, April 1915. 



