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different and with joints 1-3 testaceous;, tlie prothorax broadly ilavous 

 on each side at the base, the elytral markings larger. The Perak speci- 

 men had been placed by Fry amongst his Halticids. *S'. dicln-ous 

 (No. 47) is similarly shaped, but wants the spots on the elytra, etc. 



37. — Scirtes andaniamts, n. sp. 



$ . Broad oval, robust, moderately shining ; obscure testaceous, varit^- 

 gated with black, the dark mottlint^ on the elytra partly or entirely enclo.sinof 

 various Avell-defined testaceous markings — a transverse patch at the sides below 

 the base extending forward along the outer margin to the humeri, an oval 

 spot on the disc just before the middle, an arcuate fascia near the tip, a small 

 apical patcli extending forward for some distance along the suture, and 

 numerous small spots ; the antennae (joints 1-3 excepted) and maxillary palpi 

 black, the legs testaceous, the posterior femora infuscate at the apex ; tlie 

 upper surface thickly pubescent (the pubescence partaking of the ground- 

 colour, and tlnis accentuating the elytral markings), and densely, minutely 

 punctate. Antennae with joint 3 slightly longer than 2, 4-11 elongate, very 

 slender, filiform, Prothorax arcuately narrowed from the base, deeply 

 hollowed in front opposite the eyes. Elytra narrowly margined, with three 

 distinct costae on the disc, the suture also slightly raised. Posterior coxal 

 plates rectangular. Posterior femora enormously thickened, the tibine feebly 

 curved, broad, and sharply carinate, the upper tibial spur nearly as long as 

 the first tarsal joint. 



Length 4, breadth 2| mm. 



Hab. Andaman Is. (G. Ror/ers). 



One specimen, received b}^ the Museum in 190G. Smaller and less 

 robust than >S'. 4i-maculaius Waterh., from Burma, the Andamans, and 

 Nicobars ; the elytral markings ver}^ different, the costae more distinct ; 

 the antennae still more slender, the third joint longer than usual in the 

 genus Scirtes. The palps projecting from the ovipositor are unusually 

 elongate. 



38. — Scirtes elegans. ^ 



Scirtes elegans Waterh. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 567 (lS80).i 



? Scirtes alhomaculatus Bourg. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 163. ^ 



ITah. PenanqI [type]. 



Described by Waterhouse from three specimens from Penan g, 

 varying n the development of the elytral markings, and in the colour 

 ot the prothorax. An example captured by Mr. Gr. E. Bryant, at 

 Lundu, Sarawak, Borneo, on January 8th, 1914, is doubtless another 

 form of the species; it has the prothorax testaceous and the elj'^tra 



