138 CERAMBTCID.T-. 



138. Margites modicus, sp. u. 



Dark brovMi, the head and protliorax nearly black, the antennce 

 and legs reddish brown ; faintly covered with short grey pubes- 

 cence. Head densely and rather finely punctured ; ^^■ithout 

 impressed line above. Antennte almost as long as the body in 

 the 2 i and about one-fourth longer in the c? ; third and tourth 

 joints rather strongly thickened towards the apex in the c^ , 

 slightly thickened in the 2- Protliorax evenly rounded at the 

 sides, narrowed and feebly marked with transverse grooves at the 

 base and apex ; the v\ hole of the dorsal surface almost bare of 

 pubescence, and covered thickly with short irregular ridges, that 

 give it a somew hat coarsely granulated appearance ; the sides also 

 rugose, but covered somewhat thinly ^ith pubescence. Elytra 

 finely and very densely punctate, the punctures somewhat stronger 

 on the basal area; apices rounded. Eemora finely and very 

 densely piinctate ; tibiae carinate. There is considerable resem- 

 blance in colour and structure between this species and 31. e.vif/nus, 

 Gahan, but a clearly marked difference in the form of the pro- 

 thorax, which is more or less regularly rounded at the sides in the 

 one, and obtusely subangulate in the other ; in the present species 

 also the rugosity of the pronotum extends nearly up to the front 

 and hind margins, whereas in M. exiguus it is confiued to 

 the area lying between the anterior and posterior transvei'se 

 grooves. 



LetK/th 13-17; breadth 3|-5 mm. 



Bab. !N'ilgiri Hills ; Bombay; Visapor. 



139. Margites sulcicoUis, Gahan, A. 31. X. H. (0) xi, p. 378 (1893). 



Head and protliorax black, sparsely setose ; elytra brown, 

 •covered with greyish tawny pubescence, with some longer sub- 

 erect tawny setse hiterspersed ; body beneath, legs, and antennte 

 piceous or black, faintly covered with grey pubescence. Antenna 

 shorter than the body in the § ; first, third and fifth joints sub- 

 equal in length, each longer than the fourtli and slightly shorter 

 than the sixth and succeeding joints. Protliorax constricted and 

 transversely grooved near base and apex ; ratlier strongly rounded 

 in the middle on each side ; the disc with two very distinct longi- 

 tudinal, slightly curved grooves, which mark off a median 

 suboblong area from two lateral areas, each of which is traversed 

 longitudinally by three or four narrow grooves separated from 

 each other by sharp, carinifonn intervals ; the median area 

 sparsely y^unctate and feebly subsulcate along the middle. Elytra 

 rounded at the apex, very finely and densely punctulate, with 

 also sparser, larger sized punctures from which the suberect 

 seta5 arise. Femora densely and finely rugulose-punctate ; the 

 tibia) not carinate. 



Letu/th 13; breadth 3h min. 



JIab. Burma: Viiuugd6 {Co rbeit) : North Chin Hills (TT't/iso;;). 



