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and the antennae not so long. Motselmlslvv's type has probably been 

 lost, but a representative from Ceylon is still available for comparison.* 

 The larva, pupa, and imago of the present insect have been figm-ed by 

 Nowrojee,* from specimens found in the drains around the college 

 buildings at Pusa. Some of Mr. Andrewes's examples were captured 

 "at light," and others taken from beneath the bark of Eugenia jam- 

 holuna (order M^a'taceae), at Belgaum, Bombay. ^ 



54. — Scirtes uniformis. 



Scirtes uniformis Waterh. Cist. Ent. ii, p. 569 (1880). 



Sal. Borneo, Sarawak (^. B. Wallace: Mas. Brit., Mus. Oxon.). 



Described from a single example, 5 > with the elytra depressed on 

 the disc below the base. There are three others, males, also found 

 by Wallace in Sarawak, in the Oxford Museum. A large, oval, shining, 

 testaceous insect, with very long, slender antennae, strongly punctm'ed, 

 explanate elytra, and long, powerful posterior legs, the upper tibial spur 

 long, stout and hooked, much as in S. aeqiialis Waterh., from the same 

 locality. In one of the males the elj^tra are broadly infuscate at the 

 sides. The posterior coxal plates are transverse and hollowed behind. 

 Four smaller, naiTOwer, somewhat immature specimens from the same 

 locality (^A. B. Wallace and J. E. A. Leivis) with much finer elytral 

 puncturing and more slender tibial spurs may belong here ? 



55. — Scirtes Jloresianus, n. sp. 



c?. Elliptic, somewhat convex, shining, rather coarsely flavo-pubescent ; 

 rufo-testaceous, the elytral suture paler, the eyes black, the antennae and legs 

 testaceous ; densely, finely, the elytra a little more distinctly, punctate. 

 Antennae moderately long, slender, joints 2 and 3 short, subequal. Prothorax 

 relatively narrow, rapidly narrowing from the base, deeply hollowed in front 

 opposite the eyes. Elytra with a distinct sutural groove, narrowly margined. 

 Posterior coxal plates subrectangular. Posterior femora very broad, the tibiae 

 broad, sharply carinate, the upper spur a little shorter than the first tarsal joint. 



Length 4, breadth 2^ mm. 



Hah. Flores {A. B. Wallace). 



One specimen. A rufo-testaceous insect resembling a large Cyplion, 

 with the prothorax a little less widened than in many of the allied forms, 

 the body thus appearing more narrowed anteriorly. Compared with the 

 Bornean S. uniformis Waterh., the elytra are less explanate at the sides 

 and more convex, and the antennae much shorter. 



» There is another Scirtes from Trincomalee (C. B. Fletcher) in the Museum, near S. canescens, 

 too imperfect to describe, with much shorter and more slender antennae. 



