242 [NoTember, 



Linn. Soc, Zool. xix, pi. 3, fig. 7, 1886), has a broader, rounded antenna! 

 club, formed by the fused tenth and eleventh joints, Teredolaemus 

 differing in this way from Teredus, which has 11 free joints to the 

 antennae. 



Mycetopliagiis hifasciahis, n. sp. 



Oljlong-oval, shining, closely, finely pubescent ; nigro-piceous, the head at 

 the sides in front, the antennal joints 1-5 and 11, and two transverse angulate 

 fasciae on the elytra — one post-basal, with a ramus extending forwards along 

 the sixth intei'stice to the anterior margin, and one at about the apical fourth, 

 neither reaching the suture or outer margin — fulvous, the palpi and under 

 surface more or less inf uscate. Head densely, finely punctate ; antennae rather 

 stout, gradually widened outwards, the infuscate joints 6-10 transverse, 

 11 oval. Prothorax short, broad, the sides arcuately converging from near the 

 base to the obtuse anterior angles, the hind angles rather prominent, the base 

 bisinuate and deeply bifoveate; closely, not very finely punctate, with very 

 minute punctures intermixed. Elytra moderately long, shallowly punctate- 

 striate, the interstices almost flat, densely, somewhat roughly punctulate. 

 Length 4-4^, breadth lTa_-2iVmi"- 



Hah. India, W. Almora in Kumaon (H. G. C). 



Four examples, found in June 1918, m a hard Polyporus on an old 

 pine stump. Compared with the three Indian Mycetophagi already 

 noticed or described by myself in this Magazine {cf. liii, pp. 53-55, 

 March 1917), the present insect has very differently maculate elytra, the 

 antennal structure being similar to that of M. fraternus Grouv. The 

 elvtra are angulato-bifasciate, as in various fungivorous Tenebrionids, 

 and in 31. antennatus Reitt., from Japan, and M. californicus Horn, 

 from N. America. Compared with the Japanese M. antennatus, the 

 antennal joints 6-10 are less transverse and not so stout, and 11 less 

 acuminate, and the elytral markings are reduced to the two incomplete 

 ngula te fasciae. 



Stagetus denticornis, n. sp. 



Oblong-oval, very convex, moderately shining, thickly clothed with pale 

 brownish-cinereous, shaggy pubescence ; piceous or nigro-piceous, the antennal 

 joints 2-11 ferruginous, the palpi testaceous; the entire upper surface densely, 

 extremely minutely punctulate, with scattered intermixed slightly larger 

 punctures. Head rather broad, transverse; eyes large, emarginate in front; 

 apical joint of maxillary palpi stout, securiform, that of the labial pair also 

 securiform; antennae moderately long, ll-jointed, 1 stout, curved, 2-8 short, 

 4, 6, and 8 each produced into a sliort tooth, and 5 and 7 into a longer, curved, 

 dentiform process, on their inner asyiect, 9-1 1 dilated into a long broad, 

 freely 3-jointed, flattened club, 9 about as broad as long, 10 elongate- 

 ti-aingular, 11 elongate-oval. Prothorax short, conical as seen from above, 

 the sides slightly rounded and rapidly converging from the base forward. 



