256 PASSALIDJE. 



Key to the Species. 



1 (4) Marginal processes of the head 

 very asjTiimetrical. 



1* (3) Outer marginal processes dis- 

 tinctly produced indicus Stol., p. 256. 



3 (2) Outer marginal processes' scarce- 



ly produced neelcjhe.riensis Guer., p. 257. 



4 (1) Marginal processes of the head 



not very asymmetrical. 

 o (8) Inner marginal processes strong 



and sharp. 

 G (7) Last four joints of the antennal 



olubeqvxal, very long comptoni KaujD, p. 257. 



7 (6) Last four joints of the antennal 



club vinecjual, shorter flachi Kuw., p. 258. 



8 (o) Inner marginal processes feeble //iooret Kaup, p. 259. 



153. Episphenus indicus. 



Bdsilianus indicus Stoliczka, Journ. Asiat. 8oc. Bengal xlii, 2, 



1873, p. 159. 

 Episphenus indicus Gravely, Mem. Ind. Mus. iii, 1914, p. 220, 



pi. 11, fig. 20 ; op. cit. vii, 1918, p. 86. 



The three termmal joints of the antenna are long and the 

 three preceding them short. The middle tibise are very 

 thickly clothed with reddish hair above. The margmal 

 processes of the head are very asymmetrical, the outer ones 

 distinctly produced, the left imier process long and bent 

 inwards, the right one short, sharjj and triangular ; the frontal 

 area short and strongly transverse. The pronofmn has a fairly 

 deep median groove and is extremel}^ smooth, without punc- 

 tures, except, usually, a very few in the short lateral scars. 

 The lateral groove is a little deflected and very deep at the 

 sides of the front margin. The elytra are deeply grooved and 

 the grooves very minutely punctured dorsally and laterally. 

 The mentmn is strongly and closely punctured at the sides and 

 smooth at the base. The lateral scars of the mesosternum. are 

 deep and opaque. The sides of the meiaste.rnvm bear uneven, 

 sometimes confluent, punctta-es, with smooth areas interspersed 



Length, 29 to 41 mm. ; breadth, 10 to 14-5 mm. 



S. India : Palni Hills, Kodaikanal, 5000 to 7000 ft. (S. Kemp, 

 Aug. ; L. V. Newton, June) ; Camp Valparai, Coimbatore, 

 3500 ft. ; Nilgiri Hills {H. L. Andrewes) ; Anaimalai Hills ; 

 N. Kanara {T. R. D. Bell) ; Trichinopoly (J. Castets). 



Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



This is a very variable species both in size and in the degree 

 of ])r(Mluction of the outer marginal proceisses of the head. 

 Sjiecimcns in Avhich the procej-«es are short are not easily 

 distinguishable from E. iieelgheriensis, which is found in the 

 .same localities. 



