210 CETOXIIN.I;. 



2 . The front tibia is short aud broad and armed with two 

 very stout but blunt teeth. 



Length 19 mm. ; breadth 8 mm. 



Bhutan : Pedong. 



Type ( 2 ) in the British Museum ; S in coll. E. Oberthiir. 



This species has been presented to the Museum by M. Oberthiir. 



187. CcenocMlus nitidus, sp. n. 



Black, smooth and very shining, \x'\t\\ the metasternum thickly 



clothed with short silky yellow pubescence and the legs long and 



slender. The head is rugose, with the front 



margin broad and feebly emarginate, and the 



eyes large and prominent. The pronotum is 



hexagonal, with the angles very blunt and the 



base very slightly emarginate. It is convex, 



lightly and irregularly punctured, witli a slight 



impressed median line, obliterated in front and 



deeper behind the middle, and a deep pit at 



each basal angle. The scutellum is finely and 



irregularly punctured, and tlie elytra are long, 



■p. .- broad at the base and tapering slightly towards 



Canochihia nitidus ^^^^ extremities. They are punctured strongly 



male. at the base and finely at the sides, and each has 



four strong sulci. The pygidium is finely rugose ; 



the abdomen smooth in the middle and finely strigose at the sides, 



and the last pair of spiracles is elevated. The front tibia; are 



bluntly bidentate. 



S . The abdomen is strongly arched and broadly aud deeply 

 excavated beneath, and the hind tibia has a thick pad of short 

 3'ellowish setae upon the apical half of its inner edge. 

 Length 17 mm. ; breadth 7*5 mm. 

 Bombay : Kanara. 



Type in the British Museum ; co-type in Coll. H. E. Andrewes. 

 I have only seen, in addition to the type, a single specimen 

 taken in Kanara by Mr. H. E. Andrewes. 



188. CcenocMlus acutipes, sp. n. 



Black and very shining, with the metasternum clothed with fine 

 yellow hairs, and the legs slender. The head is coarsely rugose, the 

 front margin is broad and feebly emarginate, and there are two 

 very shallow pits between the eyes. The pronotum is subcircular, 

 a little attenuated in front and not very broad at the base, with a 

 well-marked narrow median groove and two deep pits at the basal 

 margin. It is strongly punctured at the front and sides and 

 finely behind and in the middle. The scutelhim is moderately 

 punctured. The elytra are rather prominent at the shoulders. 



