a?BTEAOMMATUS. 101 



very short ; front coxee contiguous, tlieir acetabula angulate out- 

 wards and open posteriorly ; middle coxae almost contiguous. 

 Temora rather long, pedunculate and somewhat curved at the base, 

 fusiform and compressed in their distal half. Tarsi long and 

 narrow; the first joint of the middle and hind pairs almost or 

 quite as long as the remaining three united ; cleft of the third 

 joint extends less than halfway tcrthe base. 



I. ProiJiorax unarmed at the sides. 



92. Tetraonimatus filiformis, Fei-roud, Ayw, Soc L{n?i. Lyon (2) ii, 

 p. 391 (1855). 

 Narrow and elongate, slightly compressed dorso-veutrally, very 

 sparsely pubescent ; protborax reddish-brown ; elytra brownish to 

 testaceous ; antennae and legs yellow. 



S . Antennce one-fifth longer than the body ; third, fourth, and 

 fifth joints subequal, each nearly twice as long as the first ; sixth 



to eleventh successively shorter ; 

 o^;^flS^i:> second twice as long as broad. 



^ ^ ^ Prothorax almost twice as long 



as broad, subcylindrical, slightly 

 widened between the middle and 

 the base, abruptly but not deeply 

 constricted at the base; upper 

 surface finely and very closely 

 punctulate and dull, but with 

 a narrow, subnitid, slightly de- 

 pressed, transversely striated baud 

 ^ ,r, rr . . ^/-/v,^,,,,-, corresponding to the lateral con- 



Perroud. x^ striction at the base; from the 



clearly defined front edge of this 

 baud three faint smooth lines —one median and two lateral— run 

 forward along the disc, and beyond the lateral lines, nearer 

 to the front margin, are two small narrow smooth spaces. 

 Elytra about 2^ times as long as the prothorax, closely and rather 

 strongly punctured, separately rounded at the apex. Femora 

 pedunculate at the base, fusiform and laterlly compressed towards 



the apex. 



2 . Antennae scarcely longer than the body ; prothorax only 

 one-third longer than broad, "finely and not very closely granulate 

 above, subnitid between the granules ; elytra more than three 

 times as long as the prothorax. 



Length 5-10 ; breadth 1-1 1 mm. 



Hab. S. India : Pondicherry ; Ceylon. 



93 TetraommatuS muticus, Pascoe (Deuteromma), Tratis. Ent. Soc. 

 (2) V, p. 25 (1858). 

 Head, prothorax and underside testaceous red ; antenna3 and 

 elytra testaceous yellow, the latter a little paler at the shoulders 



