PACHYXOTUS. 201 



u ards in the d" aud only slightly so in the $ , the strict narrower, 

 the punctures shallower and scarcely visible tlirouf,'h the scaling 

 excejjt at the extreme base, the intervals ratiier broader. Letts 

 with the ground-colour of the femora red-brown, their apices and 

 the tibicB black. 



Length, 5|-10^ nnn.; breadth, 2|-5 nnu. 



BuitMA: Karen Hills, 3000 ft. {Fea, Bohertij); Tandoug, 4000 ft., 

 Tenasserim ( Frulistorfer). 



Types d" $ ill the Genoa Museum. 



Genus PACHYNOTUS. 



Fachi/notus, Redteubacher, Iliigel's Kaschni. iv, 2, 1848, p. 541. 

 Fiazomias (part), Lacordaire, Gen. Col. vi, 1863, p. 90. 



Type, Fachijnotas globulicollis, liedt. 



Agrees with the description of Geotragxis, Schh., except in the 

 following respects : — 



Rostrum with the base never narrower than the forehead; 

 the scrobes dilated and much shallower behind, their upper edge 

 touching the eye. Antennce with the scape reaching the posterior 

 margin of the eye. Elytra jointly sinuate at the base, the striae 

 on the intlexed margins broader and deeper than the dorsal striae. 

 Venter with the nitercoxal process as broad as the hind cox« and 

 truncate in front. Legs with the hind tibiiB straight or convex 

 dorsally, their corbels open or very narrowly enclosed, the S with 

 the median coxas produced into a laminate process. 



Range. Himalayas. 



171. Pachynotns globulicollis, Fedt. 



FacJiynutus ijlobulicoUis, liedtenbacber,* Iliigel's Kaschm. iv, '2, 



1848, p. 541, pi. 26, fig. 5. 

 Cneurhinus obscurus, liedteiibacher,* 1. c. p. 544 (ii. syu.). 



Colour black, with uniform dense brownish-grey scaling, some- 

 times with a slight coppery reflexion. 



Head finely aciculate, the forehead with a narrow central 

 furrow ascending the vertex. Rostrum scarcely longer than broad, 

 its sides subparallel, plane above, with a narrow central furrow 

 and without lateral impressions or cariuae. Antennoi red-brown, 

 the funicle with the two basal joints equal. Frothora.v as long as 

 broad — in the 5 , with the sides strongly rounded, broadest 

 slightly behind the middle and narrower than the greatest width 

 of the elytra — in the d" , globose, the sides very strongly rounded, 

 broadest before the middle and as broad as the greatest width of 

 the el3'tra ; finely coriaceous above, with indistinct depressed 

 granules, which are closer and more distinct laterally, especially 

 in the $ , the central furrow shallow and sometimes almost 

 obsolete. Elytra with the basal margin shallowly sinuate, laterally 



