FiouLus. 223 



129. Figulus andamanus. (Plate XXII, fig. 2.) 



Figulus andatnanus Kriesche, Arch. f. Nat.,lxxxv'i A, pt. 8, 1920 

 (1921), p. 106. 



Black and shining, moderately elongate. The antennae 

 consist of nine joints. The head is strongh* punctured, 

 hollowed in the middle, where the punctures are large but not 

 close, the depression extending to the eye-ridge on each side. 

 The canthus is rounded, not distinctly angular in front and 

 obtusely behind. The j^^'onotum is parallel-sided, a little 

 wider than long and has a narrow, strongly punctured median 

 groove, extending almost from the front to the liind margin, 

 but with a minute tubercle se])arating it from the front margm. 

 There is a strong, vaguely triangular depression at the front 

 margui on each side. The sides are strongly and rather 

 closely punctured, but there is a narrow, less strongly punctured 

 outer margin, and a very smooth shining space between 

 the strongly punctured area and the median groove. The 

 front angles form rounded lobes, the sides are nearly straight 

 and parallel, and the hind angles are broadly rounded. There 

 is a narrow vestige of a scutellum. The elytra are very strongly 

 and deeply striate, the dorsal strise containing indistmct 

 coalescing i)unctures, and the intervals broad, flat and very 

 shining. The sides bear three or four rows of strong punctures, 

 and the apices are strongly and closely punctured. The outer 

 margins are finely serrate at the base and the shoulders are 

 acute. The mentum is verj* smooth at the base, and hollowed 

 and rugose on each side of the anterior part. 



Length, 10-12 mm. ; breadth, 3-4 mm. 



S. Andaman Is. : Chatham (C F. C. Beeson). In rotten 

 wood. 



Type in Herr Kriesche's collection. 



130. Figulus caviceps. (Plate XXII, fig. 3.) 



Figulus caviceps Boil.,* Le Xaturaliste xxiv, 1902, p. 205. 



Black, shining, strongly punctured above, not very slender. 

 The antennae are composed of 10 jomts. The head is not very 

 broad, its lateral marguis are evenly rounded, not diverging 

 behind, the hmd angles very blunt. The posterior part is 

 elevated in the middle, forming a double hump, ui front of 

 which there is a depression, shallowly and not very coarsely 

 or closely punctured, witli a rounded median tubercle behind 

 tlie front margui, and an oblique elevation on each side in 

 front of the eye. Between the e^-es and the posterior hump it 

 is strongly pmictured. T\\^ pronotum is broadly, coarsely and 

 closely punctured on each side, the punctures extending to 

 the entire outer edge. A strongly punctured longitudinal 

 median depression, smooth in the middle, extends almost- 



