202 [November, 



50. — Scirtes elongatus. 



Scirfcs elongatns Waterh. Cist. Ent. ii, p. 571 (1880). 



Hab. China, Hong Kong [type] {J. C. Boivring), Tygosan, 

 Nyew-tew, and Chusan Islands {J. J. Walker). 



Waterhouse omitted to compare this insect with the extremely 

 closely allied S. japoniciis Kies. (1874), from which it is separable by 

 its rather more elongate form and the less prominent elytral margins, 

 A pair from the Chusan Is., with the armature partly extruded in each 

 sex, shows that the 5 has the elytra more depressed along the suture 

 anteriorly, the suture itself thus appearing somewhat raised, except at 

 the base, in that sex. 



51. — Scirtes rufotit^ctus, n. sp. 



5 . Oblong, robust, rather broad, depressed, shining, finely pubescent ; 

 testaceous, the elytra red, the palpi, eyes, and antennae (joints 1-3 excepted) 

 black, the tarsi (except at the tip), the anterior and intermediate tibiae (except 

 at the base), the ridges on the posterior tibiae, and wings, infuscate ; densely, 

 tinely punctate. Head broad ; antennae with joints 2 and 3 equal in length, 

 short, those following broader and more than twice the length of 3. Prothorax 

 broad, hollowed in front opposite the eyes, gradually narrowed from the base. 

 Elytra oblong, compressed at the sides below the humeri, narrowly margined, 

 with traces of very shallow grooves on the disc, including an almost obsolete 

 sutural stria, the disc without subapical impressions. Beneath densely, 

 minutely punctate, the puncturing more dilfuse on the ventral segments 1 

 and 2. Posterior coxal plates subquadrate. Legs stout ; posterior pair mode- 

 rately elongate, with sharply carinate tibiae, and the upper tibial spur about 

 twice as long as the lower one. 



Length 4^, breadth 2^ mm. 



Hah. BoENEO, Mt. Matang, W. Sarawak, alt. 1000 feet {G. E. 

 Bryant'. 13.ii.l914). 



One female, with ovipositor extruded. An oblong, depressed, pallid 

 form, with reddish elytra, the antennae black (joints 1-3 excepted), the 

 palpi, tibiae, tarsi, and wings more or less infuscate. 



52. — Scirtes grandis. 



Scirtes grandis Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1863, 1, p. 483 {nee Bour- 

 geois and Nowrojee). 



Oval, somewhat acuminate posteriorly in c?, robust, shining, closely 

 cinereo-pubescent ; brown above, rufo-testaceous beneath, the eyes black, the 

 antennae, palpi, and legs testaceous, the antennal joints 4-11 fusco-annulate, 

 the posterior femora also infuscate at the apex ; densely, very finely, striguloso- 

 punctate, the punctures on the elytra not coarser than those on the rest of the 

 upp er surface. Head rather small, the eves large ; antennae long, slender, a 



