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marked with a short longitudiual groove below the shoulders. 

 Legs rather short, stout ; the femora subf usiform ; the tarsi some- 

 what broad, with the first joint scarcely longer than the second. 

 Intercoxal process of prosternum raised to a level with the coxse, 

 slightly projecting and truncate posteriorly. 



251. Pachylocerus corallinus, Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc i, p. 19, pi. 2, 



fig. 5 (1834). 



Bright coralline-red, with two rather broad, longitudinal black 

 bands on the pronotum and four on each elytron ; the abdomen, 

 the borders of the sterna, the apices of the femora, the second 

 antennal joint and the bases of the next three or four, also of a 

 blackish or dark brown colour. Head finely and rather densely 

 punctulate. Antennae not extended past the middle of the elytra 

 in the c? , shorter still in the $ ; third and fourth joints somewhat 

 globular, the third broader and a trifle longer than the first or 

 fourth : fifth obconic, narrower than the fourth ; all these joints 

 subuitid, minutely and rather densely punctured, the punctures 

 with very short tawny setae ; sixth to tenth similarly punctulate 

 and setose posteriorly, but covered densely with short tawny 

 pubescence on the flattened part in front. Prothorax only slightly 

 rounded at the sides ; strongly wrinkled above, the ridges more or 

 less regularly transverse ; front and hind borders narrowly black. 

 Elytra somewhat dull, covered with short pubescence ; the dark 

 brown bands, one of which runs along the suture and another at 

 the outer margin, are somewhat broader than the intervening red 

 bands, the two inner of which are feebly raised. 



Lemjtli 25-33 ; breadth G|-9| mm. 



Hal). S. India : Nilgiri Hills ; Bombay. 



252. Pachylocerus unicolor, Dohm, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1878, p. 359. 



" Elongate, subcylindrical, red ; the extreme apex of the man- 

 dibles, the knees, and the third, fourth and fifth joints of the 

 antennae at base black, second joint blackish, subnitid; head be- 

 tween the antennae canaliculate, eyes completely divided; thorax 

 transversely rugose ; elytra costate, marked with a somewhat deep 

 emargination behind the humeral angle. 



" Lenr/ch 21 ; breadth 5 mm. 



"i/«6. Burma." (Dohm.) 



Unknown to me. 



253. Pachylocerus SUlcatus, Bronpi. Nouv. Archiv. du Museum (3) 

 iii,p. 240, pL 10, fig. 4(1891). 

 Pachvlocerns pilosus, Gahan {nee Guer.), Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova^ 

 xxiiv, p. 12 (1894). 



Head, prothorax, antennae, body beneath and legs red or red- 

 dish brown ; the second antennal joint and the third, fourth and 

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