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CEliAMBYCID.i:. 



Genus DANDAMIS, g. n. 



Type, D. nigropimctatus^ Auriv. 



Ranfje. Southern India. 



Allied to jEqosoma, Serv., and Sarmydus, Pasc, but differs 

 from botli as i'oUoAvs: — Epipleural fold of the elytra very wide 

 near the base. Eyes large, the lower lobe extended close up 

 to the genal margin. Antennae of S longer, and those of $ 

 shorter, than the body ; first joint short, not reaching to the hind 

 margin of the eye ; third to eleventh rather slender, slightly com- 

 pressed, the front edge of all, and the hind edge of all but the third, 

 sharply carinate ; third one-fourth longer than the fourth, fifth to 

 eleventh successively and gradually shorter. Prothorax transverse, 

 rounded at the sides ; the lateral edges distinct, but not prominent, 

 with a feeble tooth behind the middle; pleura witli a finely and very 

 densely punctured area that extends from near the front margin 

 to a little past the outer angle of the coxal cavity. Elytra long, 

 rounded at the apex. Legs shorter and more slender than in the 

 allied genera ; first joint of the hind tarsus as long as the next two 

 joints united in the 6 , shorter in the $ . Last ventral segment 

 truncate at the apex in d ; emarginate in $ . 



47 Dandamis nigropunctatus, Auriv. (Cyrtonops?) Ent. Tidskr. 

 xviii, p. 243, pi. 3, fig. (1897). 

 Sparsely furnished with long grey hairs above, more densely 

 hairy beneath especially on tlie breast. Head and prothorax 

 blackish brown, sometimes more or less testaceous in the middle ; 

 elytra pale yellow mottled with blackish brown. Head closely 

 punctured, impressed with a median 

 groove that extends from the clypeus to the 

 vertex ; eyes subapproximate above, i-ather 

 widely separated below. First joint of 

 antennae coarsely punctured, the othei's 

 finely punctate and sparsely ciliated, the 

 last five or six faintly covered with very 

 short pubescence. Prothorax rather 

 densely punctured ; the disc with a slight 

 depression in the middle and two feeble 

 elevations in front ; the densely punctate 

 area on each side below the lateral carina 

 slightly raised, nearly flat in the 6 , some- 

 what convex in the $ , limited below 

 and behind by a raised line or carina. 

 Elytra about two and a half times as 

 long as broad, rounded and unarmed at 

 the apex, strongly but very irregularly 

 punctured ; tlie punctures, which are nearly black in colour, are 

 closely aggregated here and there in patches and more widely 

 separated on other parts, thus giving rise to the mot tied appearance 

 of the elytra ; each elytron with tAvo or three feebly raised, nearly 



Fig. 18. 



Dandamis vif/ropnnrfafns, 



Auriv., J • 



