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angles and immediately under the extremities of the carina. The 

 upper part of the pygidium is a little punctured and hairy and 

 the apical part smooth, and the abdomen is almost smooth 

 beneath. 



2 . The cephalic horn is simple, less strongly curved, and 

 generally shorter. The pronotum is similarly shaped to that of 

 the male, but rather less elevated behind and coarsely punctured 

 at the summit from side to side. The anterior part is rugose, \^dth 

 a smooth area in the middle and one on each side. The pygidium 

 is finely rugose and densely clothed with erect tawny hairs, the 

 last ventral segment is less closely rugose and hairy, and the re- 

 mainder of the abdomen beneath is very feebly punctured. 



Length 22-33 mm. ; breadth 13-19 mm. 



Texasserim : Mergui ; Siam ; Malay Pexixsula ; Bokneo. 



This insect is said by Burmeister to inhabit tlie Malabar Coast, 

 but this is no doubt a mistake. 



Genus BLABEPHORUS. 



Blabephorus, Fdirm., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1898, p. 382; Arroic, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1908, p. 346. 



Type, Blabephorus pinguis, Fairm. 



liawje. India, Burma and the Malayan Region. 



Form short and stout, with legs of moderate length, the front 

 tibia armed with four acute teeth, the middle and hind tibiae 

 dilated and very sharply digitated at the extremity. The tarsi ax'e 

 slender and the basal joint in the posterior feet strongly spinose. 

 Clypeus tapering, blunt and a little reflexed at the apex. 

 Mandible largely exposed externally, sinuated at the outer edge 

 and bluntly pointed at the end. Maxilla furnished with three 

 very acute teeth : palpus rather long. Mentum very protuberant 

 beneath, bilobed in front. Prosternal process not free but rather 

 swollen in front. Propygidium without stridulatory ridges. 



cJ . Head armed with a short, strongly curved horn. Pronotum 

 broadly excavated at the middle. 



$ . Head armed with a short conical tubercle. Pronotum with 

 a broad well-marked longitudinal furrow. 



Only a single species of this peculiar genus is known. 



256. Blabephorus pingiiis. 



Blabephorus pinguis, Fairm., loc. cit. p. 383 ; J , Arrotv, loc. cit. 



Chestnut-red, with short tawny hairs beneath ; short, oval, and 

 very convex in form. The head is finely rugose and the chjpcus 

 blunt and reflexed. The prothorax is short, approximately semi- 

 circular, with the sides strongly rounded in front and rather 

 contracted behind, the posterior angles very blunt and the base 

 feebly trisinuate. The upper surface is rugose in front and in the 

 excavated part and punctured elsewhere. The scutellum is strongly 



