1918.] 221 



knees (the posterior pair excepted), and tips of the tarsi, more or less testaceous f 

 the elytra with ten sharply-defined, rather large yellow spots — five oblong, 

 transversely arranged, a little below the base (two on the outer part of the 

 disc, the external one triangular, and one, common to the two elytra, post- 

 scutellar), two ©n the disc of each elytron beyond the middle, angular, and 

 obliquely placed, and one, elongate, aL)ng the suture at the apex; closely, 

 finely punctate. Head broad, the eyes moderately large ; antennae slender, 

 not very elongate, joint 3 small, scarcely as long as 2. Prothorax broad, short, 

 arcuately narrowing from the base, hollowed in front opposite the eyes, the 

 hind angles obtuse. Elytra without impressed lines on the disc. Posterior 

 coxal plates small, subrecl angular. Posterior legs moderately elongate, the 

 tibiae widened, sharply carinate, the spurs stout, the upper one nearly as long 

 as the first tarsal joint. 



Length 3|, breadth 2| mm. 



Sah. S. India, Kodaikanal {Campbell). 



One specimen in perfect condition, its sex not ascertained, recently 

 presented to the Museum by Mr. E. A. Butler. Shorter and a little 

 more convex than the Bornean S. Jlavoguttatus ', the legs less elongate; 

 the antennae slender, much shorter, with joints 4-11 black and 3 

 quite small ; the flavous spots on the elytra larger, less numerous, 

 and differently arranged. The Brazilian S. flavomacidatiis is not unlike 

 S. decemguttatus, 



32. — Scirtes maculatus. 



Scirfes maculatus "VVaterh. Cist. Ent. ii, p. 568 (1880). 

 Scirtes maculatus Bom*g. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1896, p. 120. 

 Scirtes hourgeoisi Pic, L'Echange, 1913, pp. 164, 165, and in 

 Junk's Col. Cat. 58, p. 41. 



Hah. Ikdia [type of Waterhouse], Kanam, Bomba}^ {Bell). 



Bourgeois was not aware that the species described hy him had been 

 named long before by Waterhouse, the Kanara insect, lent me by 

 Mr. Andrewes, simply differing from the latter in its smaller size, the 

 elytral markings being exactly similar. The new name given by Pic is 

 therefore not required. 



33. — Scirtes tetrastigma, n. sp. 



Subhemispherical, convex, shining, thickly pubescent ; testaceous, the 

 prothorax (except along the sides and apical margin), two lavire transverse 

 patches on each elytron (one just before, the other beyond, the middle), the 

 antennal joints 4-11, and the posterior femora in part, blacK or piceous, 

 the head slightly iufuscate; closely, minutelv, the elytra more distinctly, 

 punctate, the punctures on the latter well separated one from another. Head 

 broad, the eyes small ; antennae moderately long, slender, joints 2 and 3 short, 

 equal in length, 4-11 subfiliform. Prothorax very short, rapidly narrowed 



