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depression on each side of the median one in the anterior half, 

 usually another less sharply defined, strongly punctured 

 depression between the last and the lateral niargui, and 

 a punctured area, more or less depressed, lying behind the two 

 last-mentioned areas. There are a few other scattered 

 punctures in the lateral part and strong punctures in the 

 marginal groove. This is dilated at the front angles, which are 

 well defined, and the lateral margin is very strongly rounded 

 about the middle and feebly concave to the hind angles, which 

 are very ill-defined. The base is feebly roundel. The elytra 

 bear strong narrow shining costae and each interval contains 

 a row of large, closely contiguous, round sliallow pits and 

 numerous fine and less regular punctures on each side. The 

 apices are densely punctured. The mentum and suhmentum are 

 coarsely and closely punctured. The metasternum is smooth 

 in the middle and very coarsely punctured at the sides and the 

 abdomen very strongly, more coarsely and less closely at 

 the sides. 



Length, 14-17-5 mm. ; breadth, 5-0-6-5 mm. 



Assam : Maflong, Khasi Hills, 5900 ft. {Dr. Stanley Kemp, 

 Sept.). 



Type in the Paris ]\Iuseum. 



Dr. Kemp' found the larvie and adults of this species together 

 in thoroughly damp and rotten wood. 



Genus FIGULUS. 



Figulus Macl., Horje Ent. i, 1819, p. 109 ; Lacord. Gen. Col. iii, 

 1856, p. 35. 



Type, Figulus confusus Westw. 



Range. Africa, Madagascar, the Oriental Region, Polynesia 

 and Australia. 



Body elongate, parallel-sided and generally a little depressed. 

 Legs not long, the front femur not very broad, the front tibia 

 with several nearly ecjuidistant lateral teeth and short terminal 

 fork, the middle and hind tibiae each with two or more lateral 

 spines, the tarsi without pulvillus. Antennae very short, 

 composed of 9 or 10 joints, a moderately long scape, a freely 

 articulated 2nd joint, a nearly rigid funicle of 4 or 5 very short 

 and clo.sely articulated joints, and a club of 3 very short, 

 strongly chitinised lamella^, smooth and shining externally, the 

 sensory surface being confined to the terminal portion of each. 

 The head broad, the eyes completely divided into upper and 

 lower halves by the fusion of the canthus with the posterior 

 region of the head. Mandibles simple, not large, bluntly 

 toothed at the inner edge. Inner lobe of the maxilla ending 

 in a strong chitinous hook in both sexes, the outer lobe broad, 

 rounded, bearing a long close marginal fringe of stiff hairs, the 



