:224 LUCANID.^. 



from the front to the hind margin. There is no anterior 

 tubercle. The surface bordering tlie median depression on 

 each side is very finely punctured. The front angles are 

 strongly rounded, the sides almost straight and parallel, and 

 the hind angles broadly rounded, with a few fine serrations. 

 There is a very narrow vestige of a scutdlum. The elytra are 

 strongly striate-j)unctate, but the juxta-sutural stria is 

 uninterrupted. The punctures of the dorsal stria^ are longi- 

 tudinal, and those at tlie sides large and round. The dorsal 

 intervals are flat and smootli. The apices of the elytra are very 

 coarsely and closely punctured, and o])aque. The nientum is 

 hollowed and coarsely rugose. The metasternum is smooth in 

 the middle and bears crescent-shaped impressions at the sides. 

 The (ihclomen bears very large annular ])unctures at the sides 

 and the last sternite is very strongly j)unctured. 



Q. The snbmentum is i)rodueed backwards, formmg a 

 lammar appendage tapering to a jjoint and curving do\\nwards 

 at the end. 



Length, 9-5 mm. ; breadth, 3-5 mm. 



Darjeeling Distr. : Pedong {L. Dnrd). Centr. Prov. : 

 k5upkhar, Balaghar (J?. M. Bhatia, June). Burma : Teinzo 

 {L. Fea, May). Tonkin. 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



The single tyjje specimen from Teinzo is a female. The 

 hook-like extension of the submentum of the male is a remark, 

 able feature which, so far as I know, has no counterpart in the 

 Lueanidse. 



131. Figulus aratus. (Plate XXII, fig. 1.) 



Figulus aratuH Arrow,* Trans. Ent. Soc. J-,oncl. Ixxxiii, 1935, p. 119; 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1 1) vol. ii, 1938, pi. 4, fig. 4. 



Black and shining, but strongly ])uncture(l above antl 

 beneath. The head is coarsely and almost rugosely j)unctured 

 and bears three tubercles placed transversely behind the front 

 margin. The lateral margins are evenl}^ rounded. The 

 pronotum is long and strongly ])unctured on each side, but with 

 the lateral margins smooth and only very minutely j^unctured. 

 There is a narrow median groove extending almost from front 

 to hind margin and containing numerous large punctures. 

 The front angl(\s are blunt and a little j)roduced, and the sides 

 are nearly straight to beyon<l the middle, where they become 

 serrate and oblicjuely convergent. Tlie hind angles are 

 <listin(^t but obtuse. The .snitclliini is invisible or ahnost so. 

 The elytra are deeply sulcate, with the sulci closely and strongly 

 punctured and the intervals convex. The extremities are 

 rough but not opaque. The mentum is hollowed and rugose in 

 front and smooth behind. The tnetasternum is smooth in the 

 middle and strongly ])unctui('d at the sides ; and tlie last 



