C(ENOCHILUS. 209 



hairs, and the legs slender. The head is moderately punctured, 

 with the eyes large and prominent and the front margin of the 

 clypeus broad and feebly excised. The pronotum is subcircular, 

 with the angles obliterated and the sides strongly and evenly 

 curved, but more strongly approximating in front. The disc is 

 convex, with scattered punctures, which are stronger and denser 

 in the anterior part, a fine impressed longitudinal line in the 

 middle and a large impression at each side of the base. The 

 scutellum is finely, rather rugosely, punctured. The elytra are not 

 very long, broad at the base and narrowing towards the apex ; 

 they are scarcely punctured, except at the base, but there are four 

 broad and deep longitudinal sulci upon each, the outermost finelv 

 rugose in its posterior part. The pygklium is finely punctured 

 and pubescent, and the last spiracle on each side is elevated. 

 The abdomen is smooth in the middle. The legs are long and 

 the front tibice rather sharply bidentate. 



<S . The abdomen is strongly arched and deeply and broadly 

 excavated in the middle. The apical half of the hind tibia is fur- 

 nished inside with a ridge bearing close-set yellowish setae. 



Length 15 mm. ; breadth 6 mm. 



W. Bengal : Chota Nagpur, Nowatoli ; Bombay : Belgaum ; 

 Mysore : Shimoga. 



2^i/pe 2 ill coll. E. Oberthiir ; the d , first described by "West- 

 wood, is in the Oxford Museum. 



The name given to this species is unfortunate, for normal 

 specimens are jet-black. 



186, Ccenochilus solidus, sp. n. 



Black and shining, with the metasternum thickly clothed with 

 a velvety yellow pubescence, and the head, pygidium and sides of 

 the abdomen more finely and inconspicuously clothed. The body 

 is robustly built, elongate and parallel-sided, with the tibiae not 

 long but the tarsi slender. The Jiead is coarsely rugose and the 

 pronotum strongly punctured all over, but more strongly and 

 closely upon the anterior half. It is subcircular, with the base 

 very short, the hind angles completely obliterated and the sides 

 not regularly curved, but rather abruptly widened before the 

 middle. There is a median longitudinal channel from before the 

 middle to the base and a deep impression at each end of the base. 

 The sciUellum is rather finely strigose. The elytra are not sloping 

 at the shoulders nor tapered to the extremities, but are strongh' 

 sinuated at the outer margins, deeply striated, distinctly but thinly- 

 punctured on the dorsal part, and finely and closely rugose at the 

 sides and apices and in the third stria. The pygidium is finely 

 striated concentrically and the abdomen transversely strigose. 



J . The abdomen is deeply excavated in the middle, the front 

 tibiae bluntly bidentate at the end, and the hind tibiae feebly dilated 

 and fringed at the inner edge of the posterior half. 



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