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alternate ones being slightly more raised, tlie foveae scarcely 

 diminishing behind. 



Length, 10-10| mm. ; breadth, 4|-5 mm. 



Bukma: Tharrawaddy (G^. Q. Corbett). Cambodia. Malacca. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Genus POLYCLEIS. 



Poli/clceis, Schuiiherr, Gen. Cure, vi, pt. 1, 1840, p. 215; Lacordaire, 

 Gen. Col. vi, 1863, p. 98. 



Type, P. equestris, Boh. (xifrica). 



Head with the eyes large, lateral and more or less convex. 

 Rostrum continuous with and longer than the head, the base 

 broader than the forehead, the apex with a small triangular emar- 

 gination ; the scrobes lateral, deep and curving downwards in 

 front of the eye; the mandibles with a conspicuous and slightly 

 projecting scar ; the n)entum subtrapezoidal, large and filling its 

 cavity, the submentum without a peduncle. Anteance with the 

 scape curved, clavate, just reaching or exceeding the front niargiu 

 of the eye ; the f unicle variable, joint 2 always longer than the 

 others, but 1 often not longer than 3, 3-G usually subequal, 7 

 generally rather longer and wider, the club 4-jointed, ovate anci 

 sharply acuminate. Prothorax variable in shape, the apex ver- 

 tically truncate and furnished with \ ibrissse, the base more or less 

 bisiuuate, the gular margin sinuate. Scutellum large and trian- 

 gular. Eli/tra subtruucate at the base, more or less exceedins: the 

 prothorax in width, the shoulders roundly rectangular or sloping, 

 with 10 striae, which are sometimes indistinct or irregular, the 

 posterior declivity sloping gradually, the lateral margin scarcely 

 sinuate. Sternum with the front coxae nearer the anterior eda;e 

 of the prosternum ; the mesosternum with the epimera as large 

 as the episterna; metasternum much longer than the median 

 coxae, the episterna broad at the base and narrowing behind, the 

 hind coxae reaching the elytra. Venter with the intercoxal pro- 

 cess rounded and narrou er than the coxae, segment 2 equal to or 

 longer than 3 or 4, separated from 1 by an almost straight incision 

 in the S and by a more curved oue in the $ . Legs with the front 

 pair rather longer than the others, the femora clavate, the tibite 

 rather compressed, the anterior pairs curved and fiuelv serrate 

 internally, the hind pair with the corbels open and extended for 

 a long distance up the dorsal edge, the tai'si broad, the claws 

 connate. 



Range. Africa, Madagascar, Bengal. 



90. Polycleis parous, Boh 



Polycleis parous, Bohen 

 p. 220. 



Colour black, with rather thin grey scaling. 



Polycleis parous, Boheman,* SchiJuh. Gen. Cure, vi, pt, 1, 1840, 

 p. 220. 



