1918.] 219 



indeterminate black spot in the middle of the disc ; antennae and legs reddish- 

 testaceous, the last joint of the former infuscate. Length scarcely 2 mm. Of 

 about the size and build of L. pulchellinn Kr., from Ceylon, Antennae with 

 all the joints to the 7th longer than broad, the 8th to 10th transveive, the 11th 

 as long as the two preceding together. Thorax very finely and rather closely 

 punctured, pubescence yellow. Elytra transverse, finely and closely punctured, 

 pubescence yellow. Abdomen pointed, finely and closely punctured and 

 pubescent throughout, more sparingly on the last two segments. 



Rah. Ceyloj^t, Kandy {G. E. Bryant). 



NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN SALTATORIAL DASCILLIDAE, 



BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z,S. 



{Continued from p. 1^2.) 



28, — Scirtes bipustulatus, n, sp, 



2 • Hemispherical, convex, shining, rather coarsely pubescent ; black, 

 the elytra each with a large, rounded rufous spot near the suture at the base, 

 the antennae, palpi, legs, and under surface rufo-testaceous ; closely, finely, the 

 elytra more coarsely, punctate. Head broad, short, the eyes convex ; maxil- 

 lary palpi stout; antennae moderately long, slender, joint 3 slightly longer 

 than ti, 4-11 filiform, very gradually decreasing in length, Prothorax rapidly 

 narrowed from the base, deeply hollowed in front opposite the eyes, the 

 anterior angles obtuse, the margins slightly explanate. Elytra with a shallow 

 groove along the suture, sharply margined. Posterior coxal plates transverse, 

 hollowed behind. Posterior femora extremely broad, the tibiae curved, broad, 

 sharply carinate, the upper spur stout, and about as long as the first tarsal joint. 



Length 4|, breadtb Sh mm. 



Hab. BoENEO, Sarawak (A. JR. Wallace, in Mus. Oxon.). 



One example. This remarkable insect has exactly the facies of a 

 Coccinellid, a resemblance accentuated by the sharply-defined red spot 

 on each elytron. Exochomoscirtes Pic (1916),* based upon three allitd 

 forms from Java, is said to have the sides of the prothorax very prominent 

 in front, a definition not applicable to the Bornean Sch^tes. Compared 

 with E. linotatus, which is similarly coloured (except that the sides of 

 the prothorax are rufescent in the latter), >S', hipustulatus would appear 

 to be a more convex insect, 



29, — Scirtes Jlavocinctus, n. sp. 



Oval, rather convex, robust, shining, finely pubescent ; testaceous or rufo- 

 testaceous, the palpi (except at the tip), the antennal joints 4-11 (the tip of 11 

 excepted), and the elytra black, the elytra with a narrow space along the basal 

 margin, extending for some distance down the suture and still further along 



* " Description al rege'e," in Melanges exot,-entom. xx, p. 7 (Julv 1916). 



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