EPISOMUS. 



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180. Episomus irregularis, sp. nov. 



Very nearly allied to E. montanns and E. arcvatus. 



Antennae with joint 2 of funicle very slightly longer than 1 , 

 and 4 subequal, the club as stout as in /;. arcuatus. Frothora.r 

 with the sculpturing; shallow, as in the last-named species. Scvtel- 

 lum prominent, visible from the side. Ehjtra shaped as in 

 E. montanus, but the fovete very shallow, irregular in size and 



Fig. io9. — EpL<0i,ms rrrctjii/c/i-is, Msbl. 



shape, and often indistinct, owing to the fact that the transverse 

 ridges separating tbem are unevenly developed, being in some 

 places partly or entirely obliterated, and in others unusually 

 dilated, appearing like flattened granules ; the intervals narrow 

 subcarinate and more or less undulating, interval 7 with an 

 elongate dilatation about the middle covered with pale scaling : 

 the scale-hke setse shaped as in E. arcuatus. 



Length, 15| mm. ; breadth, 6| mm. 



Madras : Malabar district. 



Tijpe 2 in the British Museum. 



I have seen only the type specimen, 



181. Episomus figuratus, Kuvscli (fig. G6, s). 



Episomus Jiguratus, Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 387. 

 Episomus annulipes, Chevrolat,* Rev. Mens. d"Ent. 1883, p. 77. 

 Episomus ceylonicus, Faust,* Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, xxxi, 1897, 

 p. 161. ■ 



Colour black, the upper surface with dense light or dark brown 

 scaling, often variegated with paler spots or patches ; the inflexed 

 margins of the thorax and elytra with pale blue, or gi*eenish, or 

 simply whitish scaling, this lateral scaling never extending above 

 the 6th stria. 



Head with a broad central furrow, without lateral impressions. 

 Rostrum about as long as broad, roundly dilated towards apex, the 

 dorsal costae evidently sulcate. Antenna', with the second joint of 

 funicle slightly longer than first, joint 7 cylindrical, narrower than 

 the club, about as long as the club in ,5 , a little longer in $ . 



