PYRESTES. 227 



twice as long as their width across the base, more broadly rounded 

 at the apex. 



LeiKjth 17-25; breadth 5-8 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon ; South India : Trivandrum ; Calcutta ; Chutia 

 Nagpur. 



Genus PYRESTES. 



Pvrestes, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. (2) iv, p. 96 (1857) : id. ibid. (3) 



'iii, p. 576 (1896). 

 Pyresthes, Lacord. Gen. Coleopt. viii, p. 520 (1869). 



Type, P. eximius, Pase., a species from Borneo. - 



Manr/e. China and Oriental Region. 



Head with the antennal supports deeply emargiuate in front 

 and rather narrow and acute on the inner side ; the front short, 

 subvertical ; the clypeus and gente moderately long ; the eyes 

 rather deeply emargiuate ; gula with a short mentigerous process. 

 Antennce equal in length to the body, or slightly longer, in the c? ; 

 shorter than the body in the 2 ; fifth to tentli joints compressed, 

 dilated and strongly angulated at the apex on the anterior side ; 

 eleventh appendiculate, sometimes with a small projecting angle 

 in front where the appendix begins. Prothorax ovate-cylindrical, 

 longer than bi'oad, transversely grooved close to the base. Scu- 

 tellum triangular. Elytra parallel-sided or slightly widened pos- 

 teriorly, somewhat convex above, rounded at the apex ; the lateral 

 margins more or less deeply sinuate near the base. Legs rather 

 short, subequal in length ; femora gradually elavate, the hind pair 

 not reaching past the third segment of the abdomen ; middle and 

 hind femora in some species with a fine carina on each side close 

 to the ventral face, in others without carinae. First joint of the 

 hind tarsi about equal in length to the second and third united ; 

 tarsal claws moderately long, not very widely divergent. First 

 segment of abdomen much longer than the second. Wings with 

 vein Cu 1 simple, Cu 2 absent; vein A 2 runs close to Al near 

 the middle of its length, but is not united with it by means of a 

 cross-vein. 



255. Pyrestes miniatus, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. (2) iv, p. 97 (1857). 



" Eed, pubescent ; prothorax transversely very finely striate ; 

 elytra finely punctured ; eyes and the abdomen black, the apical 

 two segments red. 



" Head, thorax and elytra red ; antennae, eyes, legs, posterior 

 portion of the thorax beneath and abdomen black (except the last 

 two segments, which are pale red) ; prothorax with very fine trans- 

 verse striae, with the elytra pubescent and covered with numerous 

 minute punctures. In the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



"■Length bh lines " = 12 mm. 



" Hah. Northern India." 



Unknown to me. 



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