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scales below the eyes scarcely broader tliaii those above. liostrum 

 about as long as broad, parallel-sided, flattened or shallowly de- 

 pressed above, with the usual convergent lateral costfe, the scrobes 

 not much curved ; the lower surface of the rostrum coarsely 

 striolate at the base. Aiitennce brown, the scape reaching the 

 posterior margin of the eye, the funicle with joint 1 longer than 2, 

 none of the other joints transverse. Proihorax a little broader 

 than long, the sides rather strongly rounded, broadest a little 

 behind the middle, tlie base truncate and distinctly niarginate, the 

 apex much narrower ; the upper surface uniformly set with 

 shallow coarse punctures bounded by low curved transverse 

 granules. ScuteUum with sparse hair-like scales. Eh/tra broadly 

 ovate ( $ ), the shoulders very oblique, the sides moderately 

 rounded, broadest behind the middle, tlie apical area rather 

 strongly produced, the apices separately pointed, the basal margins 

 jointly sinuate ; witli ten shallow punctate stria?, the intervals 

 almost flat (except the 8th, which is somewhat costate) and finely 

 granulate. Legs black, the tarsi piceous ; the femora smooth and 

 coriaceous, the front pair with only a small tooth ; the tibiae 

 rugosely punctate. 



Length, 9 mm.; breadth, 3| mm. 



Ceylon : Peradeniya ( Dr. Thwaites). 



Type 5 in the British Museum. 



Only two specimens have been seen, and these were taken as 

 long ago as 1854. Apart from the characters given in the key, 

 tliis species may be separated from C. adspersiis, Wtrh., by its 

 much less transverse prothorax, the apically produced elytra, 

 the sloping shoulders, and the longer last ventral segment, which 

 is pointed and almost equilateral, whereas in the other two species 

 it is obtusely rounded and the sides are much shorter than the 

 base. 



Group III. ONEOREHINIDES. 



This group comprises Lacordaire's two tribes, Cneorrhinides 

 and Baryxotides, between which, as he himself admitted, there 

 is no real dividing line. In India it is represented merely by two 

 species of a purely Palaearctic genus, Catapionus, which just 

 encroaches within our geographical limits. 



Genus CATAPIONUS. 



Catapionus, Scliunlieir, Gen. Cure, vi, pt. i', 1842, p. 245. 



Type, Catapionus basil icits, Boh. 



Head separated from the rostrum by a curved furrow on each 

 side in front of the eye, the furrows not quite meeting dorsally, 

 the eyes lateral and convex, the forehead as broad as the base of 

 the rostrum. Rostrum longer than the head, gradually widened 

 from the base to the apex, the apical emargination shallow and 

 rounded, the scrobes lateral (the apical half visible from above), 



