253 [NoTcmber, 



towards the apex, and an elongate, curved, di en excavation on tLe disc before 

 the tip, the post-basal depression with an indication of two faintly-impressed 

 longitudinal grooves. Posterior coxal plates transverse, angular. Legs lonsr, 

 slender, the posterior pair unusually elongate, with broad femora and long 

 upper tibial spur. 



Length 2-^, breadtb l^-^ mm. 



Hah. BoBNEO, Kuching, Sarawak (G. E. Bryant: 29.xi.1913). 



One female, with ovipositor extruded. An obscurely coloured, oval 

 insect, with very slender, long, testaceous antennae ; the elytra each with 

 an extremely deep, cui'ved, oblong excavation near the apex, indicative 

 of the sex mentioned ; the posterior coxae Avith a small plate. 



42. — ScJ'/'fes excavafus, n. sp. 



2' Oval, shining, closely pubescent; piceous above, the antennae, palpi, 

 under surface and legs testaceous : densely, very finely punctate. Antennae 

 very long, extremely slender, joint 3 about as long as 2. Prothorax convex, 

 rapidly narrowed from the base, hollowed in front opposite the eyes. Elytra 

 broadly flattened anteriorly, sharply margined, each elytron with a verv deep, 

 oblique, curved excavation on the disc at some distance before the apex, the 

 space in front of it tumid, the suture unimpressed posteriorly. Posterior coxal 

 plates subrectangular. Posterior femora very stout, the tibiae thickened, 

 carinate, the upper spur long. 



Length 3, breadth 2 mm. 



Sah. BoEXEO, Sarawak {A. i?. Wallace, in JSIus. Oxon.). 



One specim.eD. This insect has a very deep, oblique excavation on 

 the disc of the elytra towards the apex, much as in the same sex of 

 S. lacunosus from the same island, the excavation in the present species 

 being placed much further forward and preceded by a tumid space, and 

 the smaller one near the suture is wanting ; the antennae, too, are equally 

 long and slender, and entu'ely testaceous. 



43. — Scirtes lutescens. 



Scirtes lutescens Waterh. Cist. Ent. ii, p. 572 (18S0). 



Sah. Java. 



Waterhouse omitted to note the acuminate bi fovea te apices of the 

 elyti-a (the two small, deep foveae on each elyti'on being placed one 

 before the other, the anterior one the more conspicuous) in the type ( $ ) 

 of this insect, which has the ovipositor extmded, the sex thus being 

 clearly indicated. 



