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CUECULIONID^. 



Madras : Nilgiri Hills (Sir G. Hampson, H. L. Andrewes) \ 

 Anamalai Hills, 3500-4000 ft. {H. L. Andreives). 



Type ill the British Museum, 



The large femoral tooth, the unusual length of the first joint of 

 the funicle, aud the narrow autennal club form a combination of 

 characters which will make the species readily recognisable from 

 its congeners. 



M. tenuiclavis var. inferior, nov. 



This is apparently a " plains " form of M. tenuiclavis, and is 

 characterised by its consistently smaller size and almost uniformly 

 grey or brownish-grey colouring, the dark stripes on the pro- 

 thorax being evanescent or entirely absent. 



Length, 3-3| mm. ; breadth, l-j-ll mm. 



Madras: Madura (C. Somers Smith); Pondicherry and Genji 

 (3Icnndron); Bellary (de Ilorr/an); Madakasira Forests, Anautapur 

 dist. (Rama/cnshna). Bexgal : Chota Nagpur (Cardon). 



Type in the British Museum. 



303. Myllocerus fabricii, Guer. 



Myllocerus fabricii, Guerin,* Yoy. Deless. ii, 1843, p. 53; 



Boheman, Schunh. Gen. Cure, vii, pt. 1, 1843, p. 8. 

 Corif/etus e.uqjtus, Faust,* Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1886, p. 143 (u. syu.). 



Colour black, with almost uniform grey or brown scaling above, 

 or brown with ill-defined confluent grey spots ; the sides and 

 under-parts pale grey. 



Head shallowly impressed in the middle, the eyes large and 

 lateral, as wide as the forehead, which is about equal to the space 



Fig, 99. — Myllocerus fabricii, Guer. 



between the scrobes. Eosirmn comparatively narrow, about as 

 long as broad, a little longer than the head, the sides straight aud 

 almost parallel, shallowly impressed above and with a narrow 

 depressed bare carina, which ascends the forehead. Antennce 

 piceous, with grey scaling ; the funicle \\ ith joints 1 and 2 short 



