104 TMay. 



species in mucli the same way, but uses the name excarafnm Kug. 

 instead of casfa)tf'ii)n. 



P. kipt^enirpfteyi in its l)est-markedform might he roughly (leseri])e(l 

 as a Fruihium of the size and build of Xestohinm fessellatum (my 

 example is 7 mm. long) and having interstices 3, 5, and 7, in certain 

 aspects, paler than the rest. I found one female example, dead, under 

 bark of beech at Standish Park near Painswick, September 7th, 1920, 

 and Mr. W. B. Davis of Stroud has another, which I have seen, taken 

 on an old willow, May 18th, 1918, at a place about three miles south of 

 Standish Park. I have not seen a British male ; but a specimen of that 

 sex, 4'5 mm. long, named tricolor 01. by Schilsky for Mr. Champion, 

 taken by the latter at 4,400 feet on the Mendel Pass, Austrian Tyrol, 

 agrees with Mesenwefteri in the sudden contraction of the sides of the 

 ])ronotum near the apical third, although the raising of the alternate 

 interstices is very little marked. 



The female of P. casfaneum appears to be much less common than the 

 male ; out of a dozen specimens from JNorfolk and Gloucestershire I do 

 not possess one. I had put several examples aside as females on account 

 of their somewhat larger size and more strongl}^ curved sides of the 

 pronotum, but these all prove on dissection to be males. Mr. Champion, 

 however, has been good enough to send me undoubted females taken by 

 himself in the New Forest, 



Colesborne. 



Fehrvanjmh, 1921. 



SOME INDIAN COLEOPTERA (5). 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



(Continued from p. 78.) 



Hypebaeus sulcicauda, n. sp. 



c?. Moderately elongate, narrow, finely pubescent, sliining ; black, the 

 head (except at the base), antennae, prolhorax, and legs (the infnscnte tibiae 

 excepted) testaceous, the elytra obscure bluish-green, each with au indetern.i- 

 nate oblong testaceous spot near the suture before the tip ; head and prothorax 

 almost smooth, the elytra densely punctulate. Head nearly as wide as the 

 prothorax, the eyes rather large ; antennae moderately long, feebly serrate from 

 the fourth joint onward. Prothorax convex, transverse, rounded at the sides. 

 Elytra moderately long, depressed, gradually widened posteriorly, conjointly 

 rounded at the tip ; with a cunmion, small, triangular depression on the suture 

 just before the apex, the apex itself somewhat explanateand also deeply sulcate 

 within. Legs slender ; posterior tibiae slightly curved, sinuate within. 



Length 2 mm. 



