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SOME NEW ANTHRIBIDAE EROM THE COLLECTION OF 



H. E. ANDREAVES. 



By KARL JORDAN. 



1. Mecocenis allectus elegans subspci-. uov. 



c? ? . Similar iu jiattern to M. allectus maculatus Jord. (1894) from Teuasserlm, 

 Burma, and Assam. The elytra much longer in proportion and more regularly 

 tessellated ; the mesial vitta of the head broader, and that of the pronotum strongly 

 constricted before middle, the triangular apical portion of the vitta being separated 

 from or just touching a round spot which stands on eacli side of the disc before the 

 middle. 



Hub. South India : Anamalai and Nilgiri Hills:. 



" Flying among felled trees and on living trunks, at 3oOo to 4U0U ft., in May. 

 Very wary. In the Ouchterloney Valley in the Nilgiri Hills during November 

 and December at 3500 ft., on recently felled Ficus and other trees " (H. Leslie 

 Andrewes). 



~. Physopterus analis spec. nov. 



c??. Black, the tibiae rufescent; pubescence grey beneath, more olive above, 

 being obviously grey in middle of pronotum, at the base and apex of the elytra, the 

 grey ajjical area of the latter occupying about one-third, being rather sharply limited 

 in front and rounded ; third elytra! interspace with some black pustules, one of 

 which, situated just in front of the grey ajiical area, is more prominent ; the other 

 alternate interspaces also with small black spots ; a brown-black spot upon suture 

 at apex : tibiae ringed with brown at base, iu middle, and at apex. 



In structure similar to P. tuberculatus Jord. (1894) from Ceylon. Elytra much 

 more convex, and the postmedian pustule much less elevate. Hindfemur of <S with 

 an acute tooth on the underside beyond middle. 



Ilab. South India : Anamalai Hills. 



"In May, at 3000 to 4nou ft." (H. Leslie Andrewes). 



3. Sintor andrewesi spec. uov. 



cJ¥. Brown-black. Kostrum with parallel sides, very feebly dilated at apex, 

 mesially carinate, somewhat impressed along the carina, at base mesially grooved, 

 like the head unifurmly covered with a greyish clay jmbescence. Eye small. 

 Antenna rufescent, cliilj black. Prothorax uneven above, depressed, subtuberculate 

 in centre, and somewhat elevate also laterally of depression ; carina interrupted iu 

 middle, evenly tiexed forward at sides. Elytra flattened at suture, especially before 

 ajiex, basal callosity tuberculiform, black in front, a large tubercle befjre apex 

 between the third and eighth stripes, third stripe ending in a small tubercle, 

 sutnral and alternate interspaces tessellated and pustulated with black ; a median 

 jiustule in lifth interspace, and a submedian one in third interspace larger than the 

 others and bordering a greyish area occupying the sutnral depression. Legs 

 rufescent, tibiae and tarsi annulated with brown ; midtibia with apical mucro (J). 



Length, 4J to .5] mm, 



Uab. Nilgiri Mills. 



