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One female and three males, varying a little in the colour of the 

 head and prothorax, the antennae, too, in $ paler than in 6 . Tliis 

 species is clothed with a very fine pruinose pubescence, and the punc- 

 turing of the elytra is extremely fine and close ; the apical sulciform 

 foveae of the $ are characteristic. 



40. — Scirtes auriculatus, n. sp. 



9. Oblong-elliptic, rather broad, vsomewhat depressed, shining, tliicldy 

 clothed with brown pubescence; piceons, the antennal joints 1-3, the basal 

 margins of the prothorax and elytra, the suture and the swollen anterior edges 

 of the apical foveae of the latter, the apices of the fenKjra, the tibiae and tarsi, 

 and the under surface in part, testaceous ; densely, very finely punctate. 

 Antennae with joint 3 very short, not longer than 2, the following joints each 

 twice as long as, and much stouter than, 3. Prothorax rapidly, arcuat'^ly 

 narrowing from the base, hollowed in front opposite the eyes. Elytia long, 

 roanded at the -sides, somewhat acuminate at the tip, with traces of shallow 

 longitudinal grooves on the disc; each elytron with two narrowly separated, 

 curved, deep, oblong foveae adjacent to the suture ju-t before the tip, the 

 anterior margin of the outer fovea tumid, ear-like, and clothed with ochreous 

 hairs. Posterior coxal plates sharply rectangular. Posterior femora broad, the 

 tibiae stout and deeply grooved, the upper spur long, the basal joint of the tarsi 

 longer than the others united. 



Length 4^, breadth 2| mm. 

 Hah. Peeak {Doherty, ex coll. Fri/). 



One female, with ovipositor exposed. Larger and more elongate 

 than the Bornean S. sulcigerus $ ; the apical foveae differently shaped, 

 the outer one ear-like, and very conspicuous, due to the pallid tumid space 

 bordering the fovea anteriorly ; the surface-puncturing not so fine, the 

 suture of the elytra testaceous ; the antennae a little stouter. S. fos- 

 sulifer Bourg. (1890), from Cambodia, a smaller, flavo-testaceous insect, 

 also has a deep, double fovea at the apex of the elytra; Bourgeois 

 evidently did not suspect that this character was peculiar to the $ . 



41. — Scirtes laciinosus. n. sp. 



5. Oval, shining, thickly clothed with rather coarse, long, decumbent 

 pul)escence; browuish-piceous above, the margins of the prothorax, under 

 surface, antennae, palpi, and legs (the infuscate posterior knees excepted) 

 testaceous ; densely, finely punctate. Head without foveae ; antennae very 

 long, extremely slender, joints 2 and 3 short, subequal in length, 4-11 elon- 

 gate, filiform. Prothorax very short, hollowed at the apex opposite the eyes, 

 rapidly narrowed from the base. Elytra long, rounded at the sides, narrowly 

 margined, bioadly depressed along the suture for some distance below the 

 base, and also with a small, oval, foveiform depression adjacent to the suture 



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