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punctured, and the elytra are coarsely coriaceous, with a punctured 

 stria adjoining the suture and other coarse irregular punctures 

 distinguishable in the same region. The propygidiuni is thinly- 

 setose and the pygidmrn bare and rugosely punctured. 



Fig. 66. — Blahephorus pinguis, male, natural size, and 

 outline of female. 



J . The body is rather shorter than that of the female. The 

 horn on the head is short but slender, compressed and strongly 

 recurved. The prothorax is very strongly rounded at the sides, 

 with the front angles obliterated and the hind angles more obtuse 

 than in the female. The thoracic cavity is rounded and extends 

 from the front almost to the hind margin in well-developed speci- 

 mens, the lateral margins of the cavity are sharp and each is 

 produced to a point in the middle. The pygidium is convex and 

 strongly punctured. 



$ . There is a conical tubercle on the head and a broad longi- 

 tudinal furrow extending from the front to the hind margin of the 

 pronotum, its sides rounded. The pygidium is impressed on each 

 side and very smooth in the middle. 



Length 28-34 mm. ; breadth 16-18 mm. 



Assam : Cachar, Sibsagar ; Buema : Karen-ni (L. Fea) ; 

 Tenasseeim : Dawna Hills, 2000-3000 ft., March. 



Type in the Paris Museum. 



Genus EOPHILEURUS. 



Eophileurus, Arrow, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1908, p. 332. 



Type, Geotrupes planatus, Wied. 

 Range. Tropical Asia. 



Eather long and narrow, parallel-sided and depressed. Head 

 armed with a single short median horn or tubercle, the clypeus 



