DIPELICUS. 313 



286, Dipelicus cantator, sp. n. 



Chestnut-red, with the head and pronotum rather darker and 

 the legs and lower surface clothed with long tawny hairs. 



The ch/peus is bidentate and the head rather shining and armed 

 with a strong transverse carina at the middle. The jironotum^ is 

 densely covered with very large and partially coalescent pits, which 

 become obliterated at the sides, the lateral margins are strongly 

 rounded and the posterior margin trisinuate, without a distinct 

 maro-inal line. The scuteJhcm is smooth and the eh/tra are rather 

 closely and shallow'ly punctured with moderately fine pits, some of 

 which form four double rows; the apical angles are produced 

 inwards, forming sharp overlapping tongues. The propygidium 

 is finely but not very deeply or regularly striated upon its posterior 

 part and bears anteriorly several transverse bands which are ex- 

 tremely finely and sharply striated, l:\ie pygidium is smooth and 

 shining in the middle and rugose at the sides. The abdomen is 

 shining and thiuly hairy beneath. The front tibia is slender and 

 armed" with three very sharp teeth, and the front tarsi are ex- 

 tremely long. The four 2JOSierior legs are of moderate length. 



(5 . The cephalic carina forms a very short sharp horn and the 

 pronotum is excavated and smooth in its anterior half, the 

 posterior margin of the cavity bearing two small vertical tubercles 

 placed at a short distance apart. 



Length 20 mm. ; breadth 11 mm. 



Bengal : Berhampur (Atlinson). 



Type in the British Museum. 



I have seen only a single male specimen. 



287. Dipelicus bidens, sp. n. 



Chestnut-red, with the upper surface black and the legs and 

 lower surface clothed with tawny hairs. The clypeus is bidentate, 

 the head scarcely punctured and bearing a strong transverse carina 

 at the middle. " The pronotum is very closely and coarsely pitted, 

 the pits coalescent and indistinct except in the posterior median 

 part ; the lateral margins are very strongly curved and the base 

 strongly trisinuate, without a distinct marginal line. The 

 scutellum is smooth and the elytra are rather closely and shal- 

 lowly punctured with moderately fine pits, some of which form 

 four double rows; the apical angles are a little produced 

 inwards. The propygidium bears stridulatory ridges, which are 

 extremely coarse in the anterior, and moderately fine in the 

 posterior, part. The piigidium is smooth and shining m the 

 middle and rugose at the sides. The legs are stout wath the 

 front tibice not very slender nor the teeth sharp, but the front 

 tarsi are very long. i i. i 



S . The cephalic carina is produced upwards into a short sharp 

 horn. The pronotum is broadly excavated in front (the excavation 



