387 



anterior border as high as the eye, (somewhat crumpled above 

 laterally); rest of the somites with the transverse sulcus almost 

 obsolete dorsally, the anterior half very finely striolate transversely, 

 the posterior half gradually elevated, weakly striate longitudinally 

 below, the striae not reaching half way up to the pore; pores small 

 situated about in the middle line behind the transverse groove ; ventral 

 grooves short. Anal somite produced above into a stout, long, blunt, 

 nearly straight process which projects a long way beyond the margin 

 of the valves and is raised slightly above the level of the tergite; 

 valves small lightly convex, with strongly convex, simple, uncom- 

 pressed margins; sternite posteriorly angular, separated from the pre- 

 ceding sclerite by a faint sulcus. 



Legs very long; the second segment of the posterior pair of each 

 somite (except at the anterior end of the body) longitudinally exca- 

 vated below, the penultimate segment of both pairs similarly exca- 

 vated distaliy. 



Number of somites 69. Length about 180 mm. 



Copulatory feet as in figure. 



This species is very closely allied to Sp. ater, (Tömösv.) ') from 

 Borneo. The two species in fact agree in almost every particular with 

 the exception of the form of the first tergite and of the copulatory 

 feet. In proboscideus the lateral lamina of the first tergite is much 

 less produced, not projecting so far inferiorly as the labral margin 

 and the anterior lamina of the copulatory foot is entire below and 

 not armed with a number of teeth. 



86. Spirostreptus vittatus, Newport. PI. XXI, fig. 8 — 8d. 



Syn. Sp. vittatus, Newp. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XIII, pp. 269-270 

 n° 4 (1844) d. 

 „ „ fasciatus, id. ibid. n° 6, 9- 



„ „ corticosus, Porat, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. XXXII, pp. 



219-221 (1888). 



Sumatra. One specimen. 



This species was recorded by Newport as doubtfully coming from 



China. There is, however, no evidence on this head to be obtained 



from the labels now attached to Newport's types. And since the 



Museum has one other example from Singapore and Dr. Max Weber 



1) Term. fuz. IX, p. 70, pi. V, fig. 3—5 (1885). 



