FIGULUS. 225 



ventral stcruite and the sides of the others are coarsely punc- 

 tured, and the middle of the latter finely. 



Length, 8-10 mm. ; breadth, 3 mm. 



Bengal : Calcutta (F. H. Gravply, June). 8. India : 

 Nilgiri Hills, Hattikeri (//. L. Andrewes, Feb.). Found under 

 bark. 



Type in the British Museum. 



A specimen was found by Dr. Gravely in a decayed coconut 

 palm, together with larvae of Ori/ctcs rhinoceros. It seems 

 probable that the presence of this specimen in Calcutta was 

 due to accidental importation. 



132. Figulus linearis. 



Cardanus linearis Did.,* Col. Lucan du Globe, 1929, p. 81. 



Black and shining, ratiier narrow, with a sparse clothing of 

 very minute and inconsi)icuous pale setae. The antennae are 

 composed of 10 joints. The head is densely and rugosely 

 punctured, with an ol)lique ridge at the inner margin of each 

 eye, whieli forms a shining elevation at its anterior end. The 

 canthus is rounde<l in front, tlic outer margins being gently 

 curved and slightly diverging towards the hind angles, which 

 are blunt. The pronation has a large oval (lej)ression in the 

 middle, with a shining margin, and closely but irregularly 

 punctured with large punctures. There is a shining tubercle 

 just in front of the depression. The remaining surface of the 

 pronotum is densely covered with large ])unctures. The front 

 angles are produced into round<Hl lobes, the lateral margins are 

 finely crenate and almost i)arallel to near the base, and then 

 convergent, without forming a dehnite angle. The hind 

 angles are extremely obtuse. The elytra are broadly and 

 deeply grooved, with close large ])unctures in the grooves, 

 forming imperfect double rows. The intervals form narrow 

 shimng ridges. The outer margins are serrate at the base, 

 the shoulders acutely produced and the ai)ices shallowly 

 punctured and opaque. 



LeyujtJi (witli mantlibles), 9 mm. ; breadth, 3 mm. 



Malabar : Mahe. 



Type in Dr. Didier's collection. 



133. Figulus cicatricosus. (Plate XXII, fig. 4.) 



Figulua cicatricosus Boil.,* Le Naturaliste, xxvii, 1905, p. 38. 



Black, densely punctured and opaque above, the j)unctures 

 filled with earthy matter, and clo.sely 2)unctured l)ut shining 

 beneath. The antenn<e consist of 10 jouits. The body is 

 small, convex and not very elongate, the legs fairly stout, with 

 short tarsi. The head is not very broad and only feebly 

 hollowed in the middle. It is strongly and closely punctured, 



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