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hroiidly arcuato-explanatc at thi- sides ant('rit>rly and sin\iously narrowpcl 

 behind, the hind anyles sharp ; deeply excavate towards the outer margin, sul- 

 cate <iown the middle, and with a sinitous transverse groove before the base, 

 terminating in a deep fovea laterally, the entire surface densely, minutely 

 punctate. Scutellum veiy large, densely punctulate. Elytra long, broader than 

 the prothorax, somewhat dilated at the sides below the tumid humeri, and with 

 a rather prominent reflexed margin ; with numerous rows (about 15) of punc- 

 tures, which are coarse at the base and become very fine towards the apex, the 

 interstices flat, densely punctulate. Length 11^, breadth 5!, mm. ( <?.) 



Hab.: N. India, W. Almora (H. G. CJiampion, lS.v.'16). 



One specimen, found on a Polyporiis on Alnus nepaJensU. Near 

 P. ynfopHheiis (sic) Mars., from the " East Indies,"* an example (?) 

 of wliich from Assam is contained in the British Museum ; differing 

 from it in having the prothorax much more uneven (the outer portions 

 less hollowed and the transverse post-median groove being absent in 

 P. rtffopubeus) , strongly arcuato-explanate at the sides anteriorly, and 

 wanting the two transverse patches of rufo-fulvous pubescence at the 

 base, the hairs on the scutellum shorter, and the elytra rather coarsely 

 striato-punctate to about the middle. P. japana Mars. ^, an 

 insect said to live upon a white arboreal fungus, has a similarly 

 dilated, interiorly ciliate fifth antennal joint, and the seventh 

 also ciliate lieneath, the same sex of the N. American P. pimelia F. 

 and P. obliqnata F. having three or foiu' of the intermediate joints 

 widened, compressed, and fulvo-pilose beneath. The other described 

 species of the genus are from Java or Sumatra. 



Horsell : 



February ryth, 1917. 



MEOTICA EXILIPOBMIS JOY, A GOOD SPECIES. 

 BY H. BRITTEN, F.E.S. 



Having taken in this 'district a good many specimens of a small 

 Meotica from flood refuse, which seemed to me to be distinct from 

 either 31. exUis Er., or exiUima Shp., I sent examples to Dr. Sharp to 

 make quite certain that my determination of this species was correct. 

 He returned them as probably distinct, and with his usual kindness 

 enclosed the whole of his material in the exilis-group for me to 

 examine. Included amongst them was a male example from Mr. Joy, 

 labelled " exiliformis," which I at once recognised as my insect; and 



* Ann. «oc. Ent. I-'r., ISTi., \>v- S-'^- 337. 



