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CETONIINiE. 



into a small horn which is curved upwards and expanded and 

 truncate at the extremity. The antenna! club is rather long, the 

 front tibiie and all the tarsi are elongate and the abdomen is 

 channelled beneath. 



2 . The clypeus is simple but the anterior angles form short 

 sharp processes. The legs are of normal length. This sex is 

 extremely like the female of the preceding species, but may be 

 distinguished by tlie sharp spine beyond the middle of the hind 

 tibia, u hich is absent in that form. 



Length 18 mm. ; breadth 8 mm. 



Assam : Naga Hills ; Sikkim : Darjiling ; Bhutax : Maria 

 Basti. 



Type in the Indian Museum ; that of moeivisii in the German 

 Entomological National Museum. 



4. Mycteristes (Cephalocosmus) gestroi, sp. n. 



Mycteristes microphyllus, Gesiro* (nee Wood-Mason), Ann. Mus. 

 Genova (2) x, 1891, p. 837. 



Bronze-red or green, feebly shining and thinly clothed above 

 and beneath with minute whitish setae. It is depressed and 

 moderately elongate, with the head and proaotum rugosely punc- 

 tured and the latter slightly impressed in front and behind, with 

 the sides slightlv convergent behind, the posterior angles obtuse 

 and the base feebly lobed. The scntdhnn is long and pointed, 



Fig. 10. — Mf/cterii'ff's ffcsfroi, male, and outline of female. 



rugose at the base and apex, and the elytra cover the abdomen and 

 are rather iinely rugose, with a smooth cossta about the middle of 

 each, bent and dilated behind the scutellum. The pyyidium is 

 finely transversely striolated and tlie lower surface of the body is 

 rugose at the sides and i)unctured in the middle. Each of the 

 iouv posterior tibia' is armed with a strong spine beyond the middle 

 of the outer edge. 



