ACEOC(ELOPUS. 



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HQUcronate at the apex aud with the lateral margins not sinuate. 

 Sternum as iu TauymecHS, but with the metasternum longer than 

 the median coxae and its episterna narrower. Venter with the 

 intercoxal process subangulate and much narrower than the coxae, 

 segment 2 scarcely longer than 3 + 4, the apical segment of the 

 $ simple but slightly more pointed than that of the J . Leqs 

 moderately long, the tibiae curved inwards at the apex, the corbels 

 of the posterior pairs open and terminal, not ascending the dorsal 

 edge; tarsi broad, joint 2 shorter and a little narrower than 1, 

 3 broadly lobate, the claws free. 

 Range. Bengal. 



31. Acroccelopus cretaceus, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with uniform densa chalky grev scaling. 



Head subconical, the forehead plane aud tiuely rugose, the eyes 

 short ovate and very prominent. Rostrtim longer than broad, a 

 little narrower at apex than at base, with a broad central furrow 

 containing a low carina. ProtJiorax as long as broad, the sides 

 slightly rounded, broadest before middle, narrower at apex than 

 at base, slightly depressed on the disk, finely rugose (hidden by 

 the scaling), with an oblique impressed line on each side behind 



Fig. 22. — Acroccelopus crefaceus, Mshl. 



the middle and with faint curved lines laterally. Elytra ovate, 

 acuminate behind and with a short mucro, the shoulders pro- 

 minent in the 5 , much more sloping in the S » with deep strongly 

 punctured striae, the intervals broader than the striae and slightly 

 convex, stria 9 with a very large round and deep fovea in the 2 

 only ; scahng very dense, the setaj very short and depressed. 

 Legs with all the tibiae finely dwnticulate internally in both sexes, 

 the tibiae more curved in the S than in the $ . 



Length, S 12, $ 10| mm. ; breadth, 6 5|, § 4| mm. 



Bhxgal. 



Types, cJ" in the British Museum, $ in the Oxford Museum. 



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