NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXXIV. 1928. 95 ANTHRIBIDAE FROM THE MALAY PENINSULA By dr. KARL JORDAN 'T'HE specimens which form the subject of this paper were submitted to me ■*■ for identification by Mr. H. M. Pendlebury, of the Federated Malay States Museum at Selangor, and have been returned to that institute with the exception of the types of the new forms and some duplicate specimens. As a large number of species are already known from the Malay Peninsula, particularly from Perak, I was surprised to find some large and conspicuous new forms in the collection. The material collected by Mr. Pendlebury is very carefully labelled, and, since we know so very little about the time of appearance, altitude, etc., of exotic Anlhrihidae, the data given on the labels are well worth publishing. Besides the species mentioned in this paper there are a few others in the collection which it is advisable to omit, as the identifications are not beyond doubt or too difficult to attempt with single specimens of obscure species. 1. Eugigas goliathus Thorns. (1857). Perak: Batang Pedang, 1,800ft., vi.l923 (H. M. Pendlebury), 1 ?. We have this species from Java, Nias, Sumatra, and Borneo. 2. Meganthribus atopus stellatus subsp. nov. $. Niger, supra et infra manifestis guttis albis notatus. Long. 25 mm. (cap. excL). Selangor: Gombak valley, viii. 1922 (H.P.M.), 1 ?, type. Black, covered with a very short olivaceous pubescence, pronotum with shallow punctures at the sides of which there is a small granule. The white spots correspond to those of M. atopus atopus Jord. (1913) from Menado. On pro-notum two at apex, an elongate one in middle, two on each side and a minute one on each side a little before the central spot, a white basal marginal border broken up into four transverse spots ; scutellum also white ; on elytra a sutural spot at scutellum, sutural and alternate interspaces with black and white spots, the black spots inconspicuous ; on underside an elongate spot anteriorly above forecoxa and three small spots at carina, on mesosternum a lateral spot on neck of segment and a border along hindside of mesepimerum, two spots on meta-sternum and a dash on metepisternum, intercoxal process of metasternum and partially also all coxae white ; on abdomen a limbal and a submedian row on segments 1 to 4. Indications of other spots here and there above and below. Antenna, tibiae, and tarsi black. Pygidiuni a little shorter than basally broad. In a second specimen ($), from Perak, Taiping, the pronotum has no punc-tures, only small granules, the pygidium is as long as broad, and the tarsal segments 1 and 2 are white proximally, in hindtarsus the first segment to near apex. 3. Meganthribus nubilus Jord. (1898). Selangor, vii.1914, viii. 1915, 2 $$. Peninsular Siam : Nakon Sri Tama-rat, Khao Ram, 750 ft., ii. 1922 (H. M. Pendlebury), 1 S-
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