TRACHYODES. '2 1 i 



long, the sides strongly rounded, broadest before the middle, tlie 

 upper surface with indistinct low granulation, densely covered 

 with scaling and with very short erect setae. Elytra oblong-ovate, 

 the dorsal outline plane from the base to behind the middle and 

 not very steeply declivous behind ; the upper, surface with broad 

 strife containing large deep punctures, the intervals narrow and 

 subcostiite, the alternate ones being slightly more raised, the setae 

 short and subde pressed. Legs piceous, with suberect pale setae, 

 the femora without a tooth. 



Length, 3^ mm. ; breadth, --2^ mm. 



Ma^dras :'Nilgiri Hills, 6000 ft. {H. L. Amhewes). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Genus TKACHYODES, nov. 



Type, Trachyodes horrescens, sp. nov. 



Very closely allied to Trachyphlceosoma, WolL, from which it 

 differs only in the following characters : — Rostrum not narrowed 

 in front, the sides subparallel or even slightly widened towards 

 the apex, which is distinctly emargiuate, the epistome being 

 bounded by an angulated carina ; tlie scrobes narrow, almost 

 parallel-sided, slightly curved and continued right up to the 

 anterior margin of the eye, their posterior portion being much 

 narrower than the eye. Legs with a distinct small tooth on the 

 femora. 



Range. S. India. 



251. Trachyodes horrescens, sp. nov. 



Colour ferruginous brown, with dense brownish scaling. 

 Head convex, without perceptible sculpturing and set witli 

 short, very stiff, erect bristles. Rostrum with the sides straight 



Fig. 86. — Trachyodes horrescens, Mshl. 



and subparallel, the upper surface almost plane, the scrobes pos- 

 teriorly much narrower than the eye. Antenncf piceous, the scape 

 strongly curved and abruptly and broadly thickened in the 

 apical half. Prothorax distinctly transverse, the sides moderately 



