102 LFCAKIDiE. 



from the .shining inner part. The prothorax is .short and broad, 

 with the sides ahiiost straight in front. The prosternuni 

 strongly elevated and vertical behind })ut scarcely ])roduced. 

 The three terminal joints of the antenna moderately long and 

 the seventh joint sharply produced. 



$. The head is strongly punctured, the punctures very dose 

 and confluent in front, not very close in the middle or behind. 

 There is a small tubercle on each side, with a slight excavation 

 between. The cly])eal j)rocess is tongue-shaped and the 

 mandibles have each a small blunt tooth. The sides of the 

 pronotum are closely punctured and dull, the middle very 

 minutely punctured and shining. The front angles are rathei- 

 sharpl}' produced, the sides very feebly curved and bluntly 

 angulate behind. The sides of the elytra are densely and not 

 very finely punctured and dull and the dorsal ])art is very 

 glossy, with fine irregular jjimctures. 



(J. The head is broad, fiat and entirely dull, with the eyes 

 rather prominent and the sides very obtusely angulate in 

 front of them and convergent behind. The clypeal process 

 is broad, with its front margin nearly straight and the angles 

 sharj). The pronotum is short and broad, very dull at the sides 

 and a little less so in the middle, with the lateral margins 

 rounded in the middle, nearly straight to the front angles, 

 which are strongly produced and obtusely angulate behind. 

 The elytra are extremely glossy dorsally, with scant\' minute 

 punctures and the sides are vej-y finely and densely punctured 

 and entirely dull. The front tibia is finely serrate externally, 

 with a few small teeth placed far apart ; the middle tibia 

 has a lateral s])ine and the hind tibia has none. 



Variation of the male. In a rather small si)ecimen, witii 

 mandibles scarcely as long as the head the.se are curved 

 externally, acute at the tij), and the greater ])art of the iinici' 

 edge is formed by a broad lamina meeting that of tlie op])osit(> 

 side and feebly serrate. In larger s])ecimens the mandibles 

 are al)out twice as long as the head, fiat and nearly straight, 

 exce})t near the base and tip, with a small tooth just befori' 

 the tip and a short serrate lamina a little behind the tootii. 



J. Length (with mandibles), 18-1} I mm. : (without mandil)les) 

 lG-23 mm. : breadth, 7-10 nun. 



9- Length, 21 mm. ; breadth, S-o nnn. 



A.S.SAM: Manipur (If. Doherty). Darjeelin(; Distk. : 

 Kur.secmg [R. P. Lebas) : Pedong (L. Dnrel). 



Tiipc ill the ileneOberthiir collection, also that oi rnJonotatiiH 

 PouiU. 



There is a close resemblance between this s])ecies and 1). 

 fulvonotatu.s, but the sides of the pront)tum are not strongly 

 rounded in front, as in that species, and the pale thoracic 

 spots of f). fHlronotiilii.s appear to be always absent. 



