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Show 1 9 0 2 . ] SPIDERS FROM BORNEO AND SINGAPORE. 2 7 3 set, the last a single streak; a-series of large submarginal spots, the last of which fuses with the above-mentioned streak, the others partially or completely distinct ; some marginal irregular mottlings. Wing rather deeply scalloped and sub-caudate. Under side pale fuscous; fore wing, costal area black barred, with white, some basal white mottlings, submarginal spots more distinct than on the upper side; hind wing, some basal white spots, one below the first subcostal nervule, another just below the cell, the subdiscal series very indistinct, the submarginal series of large spots distinct, a marginal mottled band of transverse streaks far more pronounced than on the upper side, inner margin blackish barred with white. Cilia white and fuscous alternately. Expanse 80 mm. § . Upper side paler fuscous, markings as in the male ; under side as in the male but the markings more diffuse. Expanse 93 mm. 11(d). Mt. Penrissen, Sarawak. Types in the Sarawak Museum. The nearest ally of the species appears to be E. latescens (JButl.). 2. COLEOPTERA L O N G I C O R N I A, by C. J. GAHAN. Z elota, gen. nov. (Mesosinarum). Head deeply concave between the divergent antenniferous tubers; front slightly convex, narrowed between the eyes; gen;e long and somewhat swollen ; eyes divided, rather finely facetted. Antennae of the male scarcely longer than the body ; scape stout, subclavate, furnished at its apex with a short spine behind and a narrow cicatrix in front, the latter completely bounded by a projecting rim; third joint slender, slightly curved, nearly twice as long as the first or fourth, armed at the apex with a sharp spine; 5th to 11th joints very short, together scarcely longer than the 4th; last five or six joints thickly fringed with long hairs underneath, the remaining joints being sparsely ciliate. Prothorax transverse, rounded and unarmed at the sides. Meso-notum without stridulating area, arcuately emarginate in front, Elytra but little longer than their conjoined width, prominent at the shoulders, broadly rounded at the apex ; each furnished a little behind the base with a very prominent ridge, surmounted by a tuft of long hairs tapering to a point in imitation of a spine. Prosternum strongly arched, almost vertically sloped behind. Mesosternum short and horizontal behind, subvertical in front. Legs subequal in length ; femora fusiform ; middle tibiae without notch on outer margin; claws of tarsi divergent. This new genus comes near Ccicia (Pasc.) in the group or subfamily Mesosince ; and in the same section with it should be placed the genera Plcmodes (Newm.) and Calymmophis (Thoms.), which Lacordaire, on insufficient grounds, withdrew from the Mesosince, assigning them a place in his " groupe" Monohammides. The genus Ereis (Pasc.), which was treated by him in the same way, should also be restored to the Mesosince, finding a place near the genus Mesosa. P roc. Z ool. Soc.- 1902, A ol. II. No. X \ III. 18 |