PnACEPIIORUTS. 



109' 



margin somewhat curved and slightly elevated, the base scarcely 

 broader than the apex ; the upper surface closely and rugosely 

 punctate throughout, but only some small scattered granules are 

 visible through the scaling. Eh/tm oblong-ovate, jointly sinuate 

 at the base, verv gradually narrowed from the shoulders in the 

 cS , more parallel-sided in the 5 ■> the divergent apices slightly 

 pointed ; the disk rather flattened, with shallow punctate striae, 

 which appear merely as fine lines when the sealing is intact, the 

 intervals broad, plane and finelj^ rugose, the posterior calli dis- 

 tinct. Ler/s with dense opaque grey scaling, variegated with 

 brown and grey recumbent seta\ Venter with dense grey scaling 

 and numerous recumbent glistening pale set^e. 



Length, 84-10 mm. ; breadth, 3-3| mm. 



Sind: I[a.\devnhad (T. B. Fletclier — Pusa Coll.). Persia. South 

 EtrssiA. Siberia. INT. China. 



I have seen only a single Indian specimen of this widely-spread 

 Paljiearctic species. 



76. Phacephorus bimaculatns, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with variegated grey and bro\^n or grey and black 

 scaliug, with the following subdenuded black markings : — On the 

 prothorax, a median diamond-shaped patch on the anterior half, 

 with two faint dots on each side of it, and two ill-defined spots 

 at the base ; on the elytra, a large transverse patch before the 

 middle between the striffi 2 and 6, with a small dot of pale scales 

 in its outer anterior corner. 



Fig. 35. — Phaccphorns bimaculatns, Mslil. 



Eyes large, not prominent, the dorsal edge of the orbit elightly 

 produced over them and bearing a row of short erect setae ; the 

 forehead with a broad and deep transverse impression, liosirnm 

 not emarginate at the apex and with a well-defined central carina 

 which ascends the forehead ; mandibles not prominent. Antennce 



