MTCTERISTES. 37 



Elongate in form and flattened above, with the head and pro- 

 thorax rugosely punctured. The 2Jrothorax is niucli narrower than 

 the elytra at the shoulders, broadest in the middle, beptagonal, 

 with tlie sides strongly angulated and the base broadly lobed. The 

 scutellum is rather broad and striolated at the base and apex. The 

 eh/tra are finely rugose, scarcely at all excised behind the shoulders 

 and completely covering the abdomen ; they are narrowed behind, 

 and each has a costa along the middle, angulated and dilated 

 behind the scutellum. The pygiclium is finely transversely strio- 

 lated, and the lower surface of the body rugose. The middle tibice 

 have a strong spine beyond the middle of the outer edge, and the 

 Jiind tibia' are slender, without a corresponding spine. 



6 . The clypeus is deeply hollowed and produced in front into 

 two short parallel horns, bent upwards at the tips and slightly 

 toothed externally. The vertex is produced horizontally into two 

 tubercles, between which there is a deep emargination. The 

 antennal club, the front tibia; and all the tarsi are longer than in 

 the 5 and the abdomen is channelled down the middle. 



2 . The head is flat, with the front margin bidentate. The 

 prothorax is more rugose than in the c? and considerably more 

 dilated in the middle. 



Length 16-5-19 mm. ; breadth 8-9 mm. 



Assam : Khasi Hills. 



Type in Capt. Mosers collection : cotypes in Mr. 0. E. Jauson's 

 collection. 



3. Mycteristes microphyllus. 



Mycteristes microphyllus, Wood-Mason,^ Ann. Nat. Hist. (5) vii, 



1881, p. 411, pi. xvii, tigs. A-C. 

 Cephalocosmus moewisii, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1895, 



p. 106 ; Janson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1903, p. 307. 



Deep bronze-red, not shining, thinly clothed above and below 

 with decumbent yellowish seta). 



The body is elongate and rather depressed. The 7iead is rugosely 

 punctured," and the pronotmn finely and densely strigose, slightly 

 impressed in the middle in front and behind, with the sides roundly 

 angulated before the middle and convergent behind, the posterior 

 angles obtuse and the base feebly lobed. The scutellum is rather 

 long and striolated at the base and apex. The elytra cover the 

 abdomen and are very finely rugose, with a costa down the middle 

 of each, bent and dilated behind the scutellum. The pygidium is 

 finely transversely striolated, and the lower surface ot the body 

 rugose at the sides and punctured in the middle. The ioxxx posterior 

 tibia} have each a strong spine beyond the middle of the outer 



"^S • The head is excavated above and bears a short horizontal 

 posterior process, slightly bitid in front, the angles of the clypeus 

 are acuminate and the front margin is also produced in the middle 



