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the femora yery broad, the tibiae arcuate and rather broad, the upper spur 

 much shorter than the first tarsal joint, the latter thickened. 



Length 25*-3, breadth l|-2 mm. ( d ?) 



Sah. IxDiA, Nilgiri Hills {H. L. Andreices). 



Tlu'ee specimens. Broader and a little less elongate than the insect 

 identified b}" me as S. fouqueti Pic, from Saigon, the upper surface more 

 finely punctured, the posterior coxae with distinct angular plate. The 

 transverse depression on the elytra below the base is broader and deeper 

 than usual in the females of certain allied forms, and may be common to 

 the two sexes. The surface-puncturing is coarser than in the Bornean 

 S. sulcigerus, which has the elytra sulcate near the apex in $ , and 

 finer and closer than in S. patlcainus and S. curvijjes from Assam. 

 S. fouqueti is here placed under the genus Ora, antea, p. 144. 



63. — Scirtes nigricans. 

 Scirtes nigricans Waterh. Cist. Ent. ii, pp. 567 (1880). 



Short oval, convex, finely cinereo-pubeseent, very shining ; black or 

 piceous, the antennae (except towards the tip), palpi, and legs (the femora 

 in part excepted) testaceous; closely, minutely, the elytra more distinctly 

 punctate. Head broad; antennae long, a little shorter in 2, slender, joints 

 2 and 3 very short, equal. Pro thorax rapidly narrowed from the base, hol- 

 lowed in front opposite the eyes. Elytra narrowly margined, conjointly 

 rounded at the tip. Posterior coxal plates rectangular. Posterior legs 

 moderately long, the tibiae broad, ciu:ved, sharply carinate, the upper spur 

 shorter than the first tarsal joint. 



Length 2^, breadth lf-2 mm. ( c? $ .) 



Sah. Chixa, Hong Kong (J". C. Bowring'), Tygosan Island (J". J. 

 Waller). 



The type of S. nigricans, an imperfect $ , was from " China " 

 (Boivring), the second specimen from '* Java," probably belonging else- 

 where. Four other examples in the Museum — one from Hong Kong, 

 two from "China" {Boivring), and one from Tygosan Island ( c? ?) — 

 are doubtless referable to the same species. These Chinese insects are 

 almost intermediate between the Japanese S. ovatulus and >S^. conso- 

 brinus Lewis, differing from the first-named in the rather more slender 

 antennae and less oblong shape, and from the latter in the less rounded 

 sides of the elj^tra. More material is required to establish the status of 

 the Japanese forms. 



64. — Scirtes Tiolosericeus, n. sp. 



Oval, moderately shining, testaceous, the head, prothorax, and posterior 

 femora sometimes infuscate, finely sericeo-pubescent ; densely, minutely 

 punctate. Head broad, the eyes large ; antennae moderately long, joint 3 



