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as broad as the head, slightly broader than long, anterior margin 

 truncate, sides parallel, posterior margin rounded, black or deep 

 brown, sides testaceous. Elytra yellowish brown, ample, smooth. 

 Wings orange, with a big fuscous spot. Legs rather longer than 

 in the other species of the genus, slender, dark brown or black. 

 Abdomen deep chestnut, punctulate, spindle-shaped, gently 

 tapering to the apex in 6 as well as in 5 . Last dorsal segment 

 of d rectangular, transverse, punctulate, with a pair of low tumid 

 elevations over the roots of the forceps ; exterior angle sharply 

 marked ; in $ similar but narrowed to\\ards apex. Pygidium in 

 the form of a short stumpy tubercle in both sexes and less distin- 

 guishable in 2 than in the J. Forceps of S with branches 

 remote at the base, elongate, cylindrical and very slender, gently 

 arched to form a regular elongate ellipse, with a very distinct 

 tooth in the middle; in the 5 contiguous, straight, elongate, 

 hooked at the apex. 



Length of body 8-5-10 mm. 10-5 mm. 



„ forceps 5-8 „ 3-5 „ 



SiKKiM: Darjiling {Paris JIus.). 

 Type in the Paris Museum. 



This graceful species resembles the preceding, but the regular 

 ellipse of the forceps of the male is very distinctive. 



Genus LIPODES, Burr. 



Lipodes, Burr, (07') p. 100. 



Type, Lipodes vivax, Burr. 



Build robust ; antennae missing. Head broad ; sutures very 

 deep, dividing the head into three wide, markedly tumid portions ; 

 the frons deeply impressed. Pronotum ample, as broad as the 

 head, anterior border truncate, sides gently converging posteriorly, 

 posterior margin rounded, about as long as broad. Prosternum 

 short, broad, hardly longer than wide. Mesosternum broad, 

 rounded. Metasternum transverse, its entire width being greater 

 than its length : lobe short, transverse, truncate, nearly four 

 times as wide as long, rectangular. Elytra ample, granulose, with 

 a costal keel. Legs missing. Abdomen broad, depressed, smooth, 

 broadest about the middle, lateral tubercles very distinct. Last 

 dorsal segment narrower than the body, transverse, rectangular. 

 Pygidium prominent. Porceps elongate, remote at the base, 

 cylindrical. 



Ban<je. India. 



This genus is monotypic; its true affinities cannot be satis- 

 factorily determined until more material is forthcoming. ]n 

 general appearance it seems related to Hyimryus, but the antennae 

 and legs are entirely missing in the unique specimen. The form 

 of the sternal plates is peculiar, as also are the deep sutures of 

 the head and the granulose elytra. 



