306 



DTNASTIN-i:. 



membranous flauge. The irropy^klhim is very finely and sparingly 

 punctured and i\\Q pyfiidiura very coarsely and thickly. The front 

 tibia is furnished with three strong pointed teeth . and a vestige 

 of a fourth upper one. 



Length 15 mm. ; breadth 8 mm. 



Bombay: Kauara {T. R. D. Bell). 



Txjpe in the British Museum ; cotype in coll. H. E. Andrewes. 



281. Microryctes apicalis. 



Microryctes apicalis, Arrow,* Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. 1908, p. 325. 



This species is very like the preceding, but smaller, and the 

 jyrotJiorax is relatively narrower, the 

 front angles sharper and the hind 

 angles less broadly rounded. The 

 elytra are very coarsely and deeply 

 punctate-striate, and the membranes 

 to which their apices become abruptly 

 reduced are broad and conspicuous. 

 The pygidium is very strongly punc- 

 tured, and the front tibia sharply 

 tridentate without trace of an ad- 

 ditional tooth as in the other two 

 species. 



Length ll'S mm. ; breadth 6"5 mm. 

 Fig. l^.—Micrort/ctcs a2nccdis. Bfema : Karen Hills, 2700-3300 



ft. {L. Fea). 



Type in the Genoa Museum ; cotype in the British Museum. 



Genus PHYLLOGNATHUS. 



Phyllognathus, Eschsch., Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1830, p. 65; Lacord., 



Gen. Coleopt. iii, 1856, p. 420. 

 Oryctes, suby. Phyllognathus. Burm., Hmulb. Ent. v, 1847, p. 187. 

 Oryx, Gtier., Voy. de la Coquille, ii, 2, 1838, p. 80. 



Type, Geotrupes silenus, F. (Southern Europe). 



Range. Southern Europe, West Africa, South-Western Asia 

 and India. 



Eorm short and rotund, with tlie abdomen, except the last two 

 segments, contracted beneath and the legs of moderate length, the 

 front tibia 3-toothed, the middle and hind tibia) truucate at the 

 extremity and fringed with closely set short spines. Tarsi stout, 

 with the basal joint in the posterior legs broadly triangular. 

 Clypeus triangular, rounded and recurved at the apex. Mandibles 

 largely exposed, broadly rounded at the sides, with the points not 

 sharp nor produced. Maxilla reduced and unarmed, \\\t\\ stout 



