216 LLTCANID^. 



the middle and gently concave from there to the base. The 

 elytra bear strongly elevated narrow shining costae and each 

 interval contains a row of very large, round, shallow pits, on 

 each side of which is a row of fine punctures. The apices are 

 closely and rugosely punctured. The mentiim is transversely 

 rugulose, the submentum coarsely rugose, the metasternum 

 finely punctured in the middle, coarsely rugose at the sides, and 

 the abdomen rather finely punctured. 



Length, 17 mm. ; breadth, 6 mm. 



Burma : Rangoon. 



Type in the British Museum. 



122. Nigidius himalayae. (Plate XXII, fig. 9.) 



Nigidiiis hitiiukii/ii Gravelj^* Rec. Ind. Mus. xi, 1915, p. 429, pi. 

 29, fig. 6. 



Black and shining above and beneath, the body elongate, 

 convex and cylindrical. The head is broad, uneven, coarsely 

 and closely but unecjually punctured, with a smooth transverse 

 posterior strip behind the eyes. The canthus is produced 

 obliquely backward as a pointed beak-like process with its outer 

 margin rounded. The mandibles bear blunt erect processes 

 above, curving towards each other at the apex and bluntly 

 lobed near the base. The 'pronotum is broad, with a broad 

 well-defined coarsely punctured front marginal band, divided 

 in the middle by a sharp longitudinal ridge. The lateral 

 margin is gently dilated and broadly hollowed in the anterior 

 half ; the front angles are rounded ; the base narrowed and 

 gently rounded. There is a narrow and rather shallow median 

 groove, not reaching the front or hind margin and very finely 

 and scantily punctured. The sides are very broadly, strongly 

 and fairly closely punctured, and the space between the punc- 

 tured sides and the median depression is sparsely and minutely 

 punctured. The elytra bear strongly elevated narrow costse 

 and each interval contains a row of very large closely contiguous 

 shallow rounded pits, with finer and less regular punctures 

 on each side. The apices are flat, densely pitted and opaque. 

 The mentum and submentum are coarsely rugose. The 

 prosternum is rugose in front, the metasternnm is very closely 

 and coarsely pitted at the sides and very finely and sparsely 

 punctured in the middle, and the abdomen is strongly punctured. 



Length (with mandibles), 15-10 mm. ; breadth, 5-5-7 nmi. 



East Himalayas : Pashok, Darjeeling District, 1000 ft. 

 [L. C. Hartless). Bengal : Samsingh, Kalimpong, 1800 ft. 

 (Balurmt Singh, Nov.). Burma : Upper Chindwin (C. E. 

 Bobbins, Nov.). 



Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



