1916] 103 



long as 8. Prothorax transverse, sub-campanulate, bisinuate and trifoveate at 

 the base, inimarginate laterally, the hind angles rather sharp. Scutelk^m small. 

 Elytra broad, moderately long, widened to near the apex, then abruptly narrowed, 

 at the base not much wider than the prothorax, the epiplenra complete, the 

 sutural angle rectangular. Fifth ventral segment short, simple. Legs short ; 

 tibiae without visible spurs ; penultimate joint of tarsi broadly lobed, the claws 

 broadly dentate at base. Length 8, breadth 4 mm. ( ? ?). 



Hab.: India, ISTilgiri Hills (Sir G. Hampson). 



One specimen, presented to the Museum in 1894. Compared with 

 the Palaearctic M. {Cydoindkis) umMlafarum. F., the present species 

 has the head a little more produced in front, the antennae longer, more 

 slender, and serrate, the eyes very mvich larger and coarsely facetted, 

 the sc'utelkun small, the tibiae unarmed at the apex, etc. 



EuEYPUs Kirby. 



The type of Euryptis, E. ruhens, from Brazil, described and figured 

 by Kirby in his " Century of Insects," in 1818, still remains unique in 

 the Museum ; but a nearly allied form from the Rio Grande do Sul 

 came to hand in 1886. The affinities of this genus were noticed by 

 myself when dealing with the ■' Mycterides " in the " Biologia," in 

 1889. Kirby associated it Avith the Clerid-genera Tillus and Axona, 

 overlooking the heteromerous tarsi, figuring the posterior pair as 6- 

 jointed (now wanting in the type) ; moroever, he incorrectly described 

 and figured the labial palpi as 2-jointed. The characters given by him 

 may be amended thus : — 



Head short, slightly narrowed behind the eyes, without frontal suture ; eyes 

 distant, large, rounded, convex, entire ; antennae inserted beneath the sub- 

 angularly raised sides of the front, short, serrate from the fourth joint ; 

 mandibles emarginate at tip ; apical joint of maxillary palpi stout, sub- 

 triangular ; labial palpi 3-jointed ; prothorax sub-quadrate, without lateral 

 carina, margined at the base to near the hind angles ; elytra confusedly punc- 

 tate ; anterior coxae small, exserted, contiguous, the cavities open behind and 

 closed by the mesosternum ; intermediate coxal cavities closed by the sterna ; 

 legs short ; tibiae with minixte spurs ; tarsi 5-, 5-, 4-jointed, stout, widened 

 outwards, the very broadly lobed penultimate joint spongy-pubescent beneath, 

 the claws dilated or append iculate in their basal half ; ventral segment 5 shorter 

 than 4, 2 (in the known males) with a pubescent spot in centre. 



Three species of this genus are represented in the Museum 

 material, all from Brazil, one having metallic blue elytra. The small, 

 tuber culiform, densely pubescent spot on the second ventral segment 

 in the (^ is a character common to some of the species of the allied 

 ii'enera. 



