DEREODlS.-DYSCnERES. 12.") 



(Pusa Coll.) ; Madura (B. Barton Wrigld) ; Genji {Maindron). 

 Ceylon : Eppawela {E. E. Green); Hambantota {t. B. Fletcher). 

 Type lost ; of guttulatus in the Brussels Museum. 



88. Dereodus pulverosus, sp. n. 



Colour dark red-brown, the head blackish ; the head and pro- 

 thorax with sparse white scaling, the latter with a broad lateral 

 band of pale yellow powdering; the elytra without scalinsr, but 

 with fine recumbent pubescence and with a broad ill-defined band 

 of yellow powdering reaching laterally from the shoulder to beyond 

 the middle and extending obliquely on to the disk almost as far as 

 the suture. 



Head slightly convex, with close shallow punctation and a deep 

 central furrow ascending the vertex, the forehead as broad as the 

 base of the rostrum ; eyes almost circular and moderately promi- 

 nent, liostruvi about as loug as broad, parallel-sided, closely and 

 shallowly piuictate, with a deep central furrow and a curved 

 shallow impression on each side of it, without any impression 

 before the eye. Antenna', red-brown, the two basal joints of the 

 funicle equal, 3 a little longer than 4, 7 not transverse. ProiJiorax 

 rather broader than loug, very slightly narrowed from the base to 

 beyond the middle and then more rapidly narrowed to the apex, 

 the basal margin bisinuate, the upper surface closely and finely 

 punctate, Avith a broad central furrow and a shallow curved trans- 

 verse impression behind the middle. Elytra gradually narrowed 

 posteriorly from the shoulders, the apices with a short joint 

 muero, the stripe distinctly punctate, the dorsal punctures dimin- 

 ishing behind, the intervals slightly broader than the stri«, the 

 posterior callus feeble; nt the base the elytra slope rather 

 abruptly and steeply forwards to their junction with the pro- 

 thorax. 



Length, V2f mm. ; breadth, 5 mm. 



India {Capt. Boys). 



Type S in the Oxford Museum. 



Genus DYSCHERES. 

 Dyscheres, Pascoe, Notes Leyd. Mus. v, 1883, p. 83. 

 Type, D. agrestis, Pasc. (Malay Archipelago). 



From Dereodus, Schh., this genus can only be distinguished bv 

 the fact that the corbels of the hind tibiae are not clothed 

 with scales, nor do they ascend the dorsal edge of the tibia, and 

 the trochanters are furnished with a solitary long projecting 

 bristle. The species at present known also differ in having the 

 posterior angles of tlie prothorax acutely prominent. 



Range. Burma, and the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



In addition to the type and the single Burmese species only 

 one other species is known, namely, D, curtus, Pasc, from Timor. 



