250 PALLALID^. 



are scarcely visibly punctured, the intervals flat, the lateral 

 grooves strongly punctured. The metasternum is smooth and 

 shining in the middle, and the secondary depressed area on 

 each side is generally a little roughened and dull, but not 

 punctured. The ventral sternites are finely punctured at the 

 sides and base. 



Length, 16 to 19 mm. ; breadth, 6 to 7 mm. 



Assam : Abor country {S. W. Kemjj). Burma : Tenasserim 

 {E.T.Atkinson). Andaman Is. : (Bapstorff,Capt.Wimberley). 



Type in M. Rene Oberthiir's collection. 



This species is stated by Dr. Kemj) to be found in deep 

 fissures in Jack-fruit logs. 



147. Leptaulax planus. (Plate XXIII, fig. II.) 



Pa.isalu.s plan lib- 111., Wiedeman's Arch. Zool. i, 1800, p. 104. 

 Leptaulax plann.s Gravely, Mem. Intl. Mus. iii, 1914, pp. 260, 310, 

 pi. 13, fig. 58. 



Black and very shining above, with the lower surface, except 

 that of head and prothorax, usually rusty-red. The upper 

 surface is extremely flat. The front margin of the head bears 

 five teeth, the middle one very short, the remainder almost 

 equal and level, the two on each side rather close together. 

 The median area is broad, the supraorbital ridges are toothed 

 in front and united behind with the parietal ridge. The 

 pronotum is rather quadrate, not very transverse, the sides 

 bear numerous, sometimes very numerous, strong punctures, 

 the front angles are acute and the huid angles not \evy broadly 

 rounded. The elytra are very deeply grooved dorsally, the 

 grooves scarcely visibly punctured, the intervals not very flat, 

 and the lateral grooves are simply punctured. The meta- 

 sternum is slightly rugose in the middle, sometimes A^ith a few 

 scattered punctures, and the secondary depressed lateral areas 

 are coarsely and nigosely, but not very deeply, punctured. 

 The ahdome.n is finely and rather closely, but not deeply, 

 punctured beneath. 



Length, 11 to 15 mm. ; breadth, 4: to 5-5 mm. 



Tenasserim : Tavoy (according to Gravely). Siam. 

 Cambodia. Malay Peninsula. Sumatra. Borneo. 



Type in the Berlin Zoological Mu.seum. 



Genus PLEURARIUS. 



Pleurart'iit) Kaiip, Col. Hefte iv, 180S, p. 1 ; Berl. Ent. Zeits. xv, 

 suppl., 1871, p. 27 ; Gravely. Mem. Ind. Mus. iii, 1914, p. 320. 



Type, P. pilipes Kaup (? brachyphyllus Stol.). 

 Range. Southern India. 



