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Priocliints {Tr/acanfJn/s) JfefcJirn', n. sp. 



Black, shilling-, tarsi rufescent; bead with frontal teeth Yevy short, equal ; 

 thorax bipunctate on either side of the middle line ; elytra with a humeral 

 row of six distinct punctures. Leni>-th 12 mm. Kather smaller than the 

 average P. unicolor Cast, and distinctly narrower and more convex; the 

 frontal teeth less developed, the lateral stouter and blunter than in that 

 species; the anteunae are lonjier and more slender, the 5th to the 7th joints 

 being longer than broad ; tlie head posteriorly near the eyes more distinctly 

 punctured; the thorax presents on eitJier side of the median furrow two dis- 

 tini-t and moderately large punctures, and the punctures at the base are more 

 numerous and distinct; the elytra are furnished with a row of six punctures, 

 which extends from the shoulder to near the posterior margin on the disc; the 

 rest of the surface tiuely and very sparingly punctured. 



Hah. lyerpadi, 8. India. 



PriorcJiirus {Triacanthus) flrtcheri v. analis, n. var. 

 Tibiae pitchy-testaceous, apex of abdomen rufescent. 

 Hah. Kodaikanal, S. India {Ca»ij)bell). 



Priocliirus {Cejiluilomerus) major, n. sp. 



Black, shining, tarsi reddisli ; front of the head produced into two 

 bidentate lobes, tlie anterior margin between these narrow and truncate; disc 

 deeply grooved, the groove widened in front; in front of the base with a large 

 fovea on either side, and two punctures between this and the median groove. 

 vVntennae with the 1st joint notched at the apex, all the joints longer tlian 

 broad. Length 16 mm. Very similar in the build of the head to P. pyyvtdeus 

 Kr., the lateral teeth of the frontal lobes are, however, more prominent and 

 are separated from the median by an impression ; mandibles elongate, the 

 upper margin with a short tooth a little behind the apex ; puncturation 

 exceedingly fine and not close. Antennae reaching as far as the middle of 

 the elytra, all the joints longer than broad and thickly clothed with long 

 yellow pubescence. Thorax half as broad again a.^ long, deeply sulcate in the 

 middle line, the reflexed sides with two rows of somewhat irregular and mode- 

 rately large punctures. Elytra nearly half as long again as but narrower than 

 the thorax, longer than broad. Abdomen nearly impunctate. 



Hah. Pulney Hills, S. India (X. V. Newton). 



Priocliirus {Ceplialomei'us') rufus, n. sp. 



Entirely red, shining; antennae pitchy-black, the 1st joint sulcate 

 throughout ; legs reddish-testaceous. Head with two punctures on either 

 side of the median groove; thorax bifoveolate on either side, one at the 

 anterior border, the other on the middle, reflexed sides witii two rows of 

 punctures of which the marginal are the smaller. Length 9 mm. Very 

 • closely allied to P. sanguinosus JMotsch. and P. combustus Fauv., from both of 

 which it is at once distinguished by the quadrifoveolate thorax. Head as in 



