28 lil'TELIX-T:. 



The front tibia of the male is much more slender than that of 

 the I'emale and its teetli are extremely short. All the tarsi are 

 much longer, the first four joints ot the front tarsus thickened 

 and the last joint enormously enlarged, the inner claw extremely 

 long and strongly bent before the middle. 



The elytra of the female have an angular dilatation at the outer 

 margin. 



The three Indian species are black, but one of them has a dull 

 bloom, like a ripe grape, upon the elytra. 



Key to the Species. 



1 (4) Pvffidium clothed with long hair. 



2 (8) Clypeus without a marginal tooth .... viorio, Burm., p. 28. 



3 (2) Cly])eus with a marginal tooth nasutus, Arrow, p. 29. 



4(1) Pygidium without hair pruinosus, Arrow, p. 29. 



1. Peltonotus morio. 



Peltonofits iiiurio, Biu'ni., Ilandb. Ent. v, 1847, p. 75; Arrow, Ann. 

 Mag. Nai, Hist. (8) v, lUlO, p. 154. 



Black and shining and clothed with rather long, erect tawny 

 hair upon the head, sides of the prothorax, legs, pygidium, and 

 lower surface. 



It is ovate in shape, with the head rugosely punctured, the 

 labrum scarcely emarginate, the clypeus broadly rectangular. 

 The pronotum is strongly punctured, its sides strongly rounded, 

 the front angles right angles, the hind angles rounded off, the 

 base rounded and not margined. The scutellum is very smooth 

 and unpunctured, the elytra strongly punctured, with a few 

 rather ill-defined rows of punctures. The pygidium is rather 

 finely punctured and clothed with very long, erect tawny hairs. 



S . The legs are long, the tarsi (except the front ones) much 

 longer than the tibise. The front tibise bear thi-ee very short 

 teetli placed I'ather close together, the second and third very 

 sharp. The claw-joint of the front tarsus is enormously en- 

 larged and the inner claw and the two preceding joints are rather 

 dilated. The inner claw is very long and thick, and strongly and 

 abruptly bent near the base. 



$ . All the tarsi are shorter than the tibia?, the front tibia 

 broader at its extremity and narrower at its base and the teeth 

 longer. The spurs of the hind tibia are shorter and the elytra 

 are more coarsely punctured, with more distinct rows of punc- 

 tures, the outer edge having an angular thickening near the 

 middle. 



Lew/th, 16-19 mm.; breadth, 8-10 mm. 



Nepaj, ; Bhutan"; Sikkim : Assam: Manipur ; Bukma : 

 Momeit ( ir. Duhertij), N. Chin Hills. 



