BLOSYllODES. 



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with three very fine carina?, the outer ones converging strongly 

 behind. Prothorax i\at her broader than long, the sides subparallel 

 in the basal halt', roundly ampliated in the apical half, the apex a 

 little narrower than the base, rather uneven and rugosely punc- 

 tate above (the sculpturing partly hidden by the scaling), and 

 with a broad shiny central cai-ina on the basal half. Eh/tra 

 subquadrate, the shoulders oblique as far as the prominent humeral 

 tubercle at the base of interval 7, the upper surface with rather 

 broad and deeply punctate stria? which are fairly regular, exce])t 

 about the top of the declivity, the intervals rather narrow^ and 

 uneven; interval 3 with a rounded tubercle behind the middle 

 and a low elevation just behind it ; interval 5 with a row of three 

 rounded tubercles, the front one being the low^est and at about 

 the middle, the hindmost one being on the declivity and very 

 prominent; interval 7 with an indistinct tubercle about the 

 middle ; the setfe very short and depressed ; the iuflexed margins 

 with three regular sulci. 



Length, 5\ unn. ; breadth, 3 J mm. 



United Provinces : Allahabad. 



T'l/pe in the British Museum. 



14. Blosyrodes (?) nodiilipennis, Boh. 



Stro])ho.'<omu.s nodidipenniii, Boheman, Schcinh. Gen. Cure, i, 183:3, 

 p. 538. 



" Somewhat larger than Caeorrhinus geininatus. 



Head short, broad, massive, black and scattered with dark 

 scaling, the vertex denuded, with very fine transverse striola?, the 

 forehead plane, rugidose, somewhat elevated above the eyes and 

 with a longitudinal carina continued to the apex of the rostrum ; 

 eyes round, moderately prominent, blackish brown. Eostrum as 

 long and nearly as broad as the head, stout, straight, plane above, 

 rugulose and scattered with dark scales. Antenuce inserted near 

 the apex of the rostrum, scarcely reaching the base of the thorax, 

 rather slender, ferruginous red, sparsely pilose, with the club 

 oblong-ovate and acuminate. Thorax nearly twice as broad as 

 long, truncate at the base and apex, the sides somewhat i-ounded 

 before the middle, shghtly convex above, black, carinate dorsally, 

 rugulose throughout and scattered with dark scales. ScutelJum 

 scarcely visible. Myira ovate, shghtly emarginate at the base, a 

 little broader in front than the thorax and five times as long, the 

 shoulders rounded, strongly ampliated close behind the base, nar- 

 rowed again towards the apex, the apices themselves jointly and 

 obtusely rounded, convex above, steeply declivous behind, deeply 

 pnnctato-striate, with three slightly elevated tubercles behind the 

 middle between the fourth and fifth stria;, the last one being more 

 prominent ; entirely black, covered tliroughout with dark brown 

 scaling. Body beneath black, puuctulate and sparsely squamose. 

 Legs stout, unarmed, black, sparsely covered with pale pubescence 

 and with scaling having a coppery reflexion ; tarsi reddish, fulvous 

 and spongy beneath. 



