102 ^M^y- 



family of equivalent value to Pyfhidae, or as a group of Melandryi- 

 dae. The Mycterina include, in addition to various new genera here 

 described*, Myctems Clairv. [with Cyclops Muls. , and Cydopidius Seidl.t] 

 — referred by Seidlitz and Eeitter to Pythidae—Lacconotus Lee, Eury- 

 pus Kirby, Polypria Chevr., Gonomorphus, Cleodaetis, Physcius, and 

 Thisias Champ., Loboglossa Solier, and Tricliosalpingiis Blackb. (^ 

 Tellias Champ.). Two Australian genera of doubtful position, Temno- 

 palpus and Paromarteon Blackb., possibly belong here. Neogonus 

 Hampe (== Opsigonus Baudi) seems to me to be out of place in Seid- 

 litz's section " Hypulina,'' and to agree better with the Mycterids. 

 Lagrioida, Fairm. and C-erm., a littoral genus confined to Australia, 

 New Zealand, and Chile, has simple claws, a strongly bilobed penulti- 

 mate tarsal joint, and the intermediate coxal cavities open externally, 

 leaving the trochantin exposed ; it may be an aberrant Oedemerid (?). 

 Falsomycterus and Boliviotnycterus Pic, both of which are unknown to 

 me, are referred by the author (Melanges exot.-entom., viii, p. 16, 1913) 

 to Tenebrionidae. 



Mycterus Clairv. 



The described species of Mycterus (including th'e section Cyclops 

 Muls. = Cyclopidius Seidl.) are all Palaearctic or Nearctic, with one 

 exception, M. depressus Champ., from Northern Mexico. An insect 

 from the Nilgiri Hills is so nearly related to them that it can be placed 

 under the same genus for the present. 



1. — Mycterus variegatus, n. sp. 



Broadly obovate, robust, slightly shining, obscnre ferrviginons, darker 

 beneath, the upper surface mottled with black, the prothorax with a black 

 median line, the legs and antennae ferruginous, the palpi and a broad patch on 

 the femora infuscate ; variegated above with fine, adpressed, ochreous and 

 whitish pvibescence, the latter condensed on the elytra into small patches, which 

 become larger and more crowded just before the apex, the under-surface with 

 fine, intermixed, ochreous and whitish hairs ; head and prothorax densely, finely 

 punctate, the elytra rather closely, confusedly, asperato-punctate, the interspaces 

 densely, very minutely punctiilate, the under-surface also densely, minutely 

 punctate with slightly coarser ptmctures intermixed. Head flattened and 

 broadly subrostrate in front, angularly dilated on each side above the points of 

 insertion of the antennae ; eyes extremely large, coarsely facetted ; palpi rather 

 slender, the last joint of the maxillary pair elongate-triangular ; antennae 

 slender, serrate from joint 4 onwards, 3 elongate, the others shorter, 2 nearly as 



* Two others from the Seychelles are known to me. 

 + Both names pre-occupied in Zoology. 



