208 CETONIINiE. 



184. Ccenochilus gracilipes. 



Coenocliiius gracilipes, Moser, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1910, p. 300. 



Black and shii)ing, with the sides of the metasternuin and the 

 pygidiuin and sides of the abdomen beneath more thinly clothed 

 with tawny hair. 



It is a small and only moderately elongate species, with the 

 prothorax rather small and the shoulders very prominent. The 

 head is closely and coarsely punctured, with the chjpev.s dilated to 

 the front margin and feebly bilobed, and the vertex less coarsely 

 punctured and bearing a slight but sharp median tubercle between 

 the eyes. The pronotum is small, transverse, strongly and uni- 

 formly punctured, with the sides strongly but bluntly aiigulated 

 at the nnddle, the hind angles rather sharp and prominent, and 

 the base broad and nearly straight. There is an impressed median 

 line npon the posterior half, and a small basal pit near each hind 

 angle. The scuteUum bears a few punctures. The elytra bear 

 each three smooth longitudinal costae, a little punctured towards 

 the posterior end ; the intervals bear rows of crescentic punc- 

 tures, which become simple and irregularly scattered towards the 

 base. The sides and apices are strigose. The shoulders are very 

 prominent and there is a profound marginal sinuation behind each. 

 The 2Vjgidium is strongly and deeply punctured and clothed with 

 tawny hair. The lower surface is smooth along the middle line, 

 punctured and hairy at the sides, those of the nietasternum rather 

 closely. The terminal spiracles are very prominent and sharp. 

 The legs are rather slender, but the front tibia) are moderately 

 broad, armed with two sharp teeth at the extremity and a vestige 

 of an upper one near the middle. 



S . The abdomen is longitudinally channelled beneath. 



Length 12 mm. ; breadth 5 mm. 



Assam: Naga Hills (Coll. Godivin-Austen), K\ia.9\ H'dh (3Ioser 

 Coll.). 



Type in coll. Moser. 



This description is drawn up from a single male specimen, 

 badly preserved, in the Calcutta Museum. In this example the 

 abdomen and pygidium are reddish. The species is closely related 

 to C. striatus, Westw., from Hong Kong, in which the sides of 

 the body have an opaque grey bloom beneath, instead of being 

 clothed with hair. 



185. Ccenochilus brunneus. 



Ccenochilus brunneus, Saitnders* Trons. Ent. Soc. Land, iii, 1842, 

 p. 235, pi. xiii, tig. 2 ; d , Westw., Thes. Ent. O.von. 1874, p. 45, 

 pi. xiii, tig. 3. 



Black or reddish black, smooth and shining, with the nieta- 

 sternum and pygidium clothed with very short silky yellowish 



