NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA 109 
broad as long, the sides rounded anteriorly, straight near the 
base, the angles obtuse, surface with a transverse depression at 
each side and a triangular one near the base, the disc impunctate ; 
elytra narrowly margined with black at the posterior portion 
of the extreme lateral margin, but extending nearly to the base 
at the sutural margin; the surface closely semirugose-punctate, 
with some obsolete longitudinal smooth lines; the lower part of 
the breast and the abdomen, as well as a streak at the upper 
edge of the femora black; the tibiae and tarsi entirely of that 
colour, the rest of the underside, also the metasternum, testa- 
ceous; tibiae unarmed, the first joint of the posterior tarsi as 
long as the 3 following, together. 
Hab. Sumatra, Mt. Singalang, Kaju Tanam (0. Beccari). 
98. Aenidea variabilis, n. sp. 
Fulvous; head, thorax and abdomen black; the thorax with 
two impressions; elytra fulvous, the base narrowly and the 
apices broadly piceous. 
Var. Fulvous, the abdomen and the apices of the elytra black 
only. 
7. The second joint of the antennae very short, the following 
joints very long and slender. 
9. Head narrower; the third and following joints of the 
antennae only half the length than the corresponding joints of 
the male. 
Length 4 lines. 
7. Head entirely impunctate, deeply impressed between the 
eyes; the space between the antennae rather broad and occupied 
by the base of the clypeus which joins the frontal tubercles ; 
the anterior margin of the clypeus dark fulvous; labrum and 
the base of the jaws testaceous; the terminal joint of the palpi 
strongly incrassate ; antennae fulvous, the first joint long, cur- 
ved and gradually widened at the apex, the second very short, 
the third and the three following joints very long and slender, 
the rest wanting; thorax twice as broad as long, narrowed near 
