EPPHILEURUS. 291 



261. Eophileunis decatenatus, sp. n. 



Black and shining, with a very scanty clothing of stiff tawny 

 hairs beneath. The size, shape and genei'al characters are those 

 of E. cingalensis. The pronotum is coarsely punctured, but less 

 coarsely than in that species, and the punctures are rather 

 scattered upon the hinder pai't. The scutellum is irregularly 

 punctured and the elytra are decorated with very coarse annular 

 punctures, as in E. cinrfalensis, but these are arranged irregularly 

 and not in longitudinal lines, the intervening spaces being broken 

 up and without minute punctures. The pygidium is closely 

 punctured, becoming rugose at the sides and base. The meta- 

 sternum is decorated at the sides with large horseshoe-shaped 

 impressions, reduced to a few small punctures at the middle. 



The sexual characters of the head and thorax are exactly as in 

 £J. cingalensis. 



Length 19*o-21*5 mm ; breadth 10-11 mm. 



Madras : Shembaganur, near Madura. 



Type in the British Museum ; cotypes in coll, C. Sternberg. 



This may possibly prove to be a variety of E. cingalensis with 

 irregularly punctured elytra, but I have seen E. cingalensis only 

 from Ceylon, where it is fairly common, whereas the present form 

 is represented by four specimens from Southern India. 



262, Eophileurus nilgirensis, 



Eophileurus uilgirensis, Arrow,* Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1908, 

 p. 334. 



This species is very nearly related to E. planatus, "Wied,, but 

 much less finely punctured, and the prothoracic fovea in the male 

 is circular, extends in well-developed specimens considerably past 

 the middle and is not bounded behind by distinct angulations-. 

 ^\iQ prothorax is closely punctured, becoming rugose in front, and 

 the sculpture is only a little coarser than in E. planatus. The- 

 sides are strongly rounded but the curvature does not quite reach 

 the posterior angles, which are rather sharp. The scutellum is 

 irregularly punctured. The elytra are closely covered with coarse 

 annular punctures arranged in definite rows and there are a very 

 few minute punctulations in the interstices. The pygidium is 

 rugose at the base and scantily punctured at the apex, and the 

 metasternum is densely punctured and clothed with long tawny 

 hairs, except in the middle, where it is scantily punctured and bare. 



Length 22-24 mm. ; breadth 12*5 mm. 



Madras : Nilgiri Hills, 6000 ft., Shembaganur, near Madura. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Capt. A. K. Weld Downing found several specimens of this 

 beetle in the interior of a decayed tree (Flex whiteana) but failed 

 to discover any larvae. Mr, H. L. Andrewes dug up a female in 

 the jungle. Specimens have also beeu taken upon Orevillea. 



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