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lateral transverse spot on each of the first two abdominal segments 

 white. Antennae extend past the middle of the elytra ; first two 

 joints ferruginous, the rest dark brown, faintly covered with grey 

 pubescence; third, fourth and fifth distinctly spined at the apex, 

 tlie spine on the fourth longest. Prothoi-ax rounded at the sides, 

 narrowed at base, its surface reticulate-punctate. Episterna of 

 metathorax overlapped in front by the sides of the elytra. 



Length 6-7 ; breadth 2 mm. 



Hah. Southern India : Nilgiri Hills. 



This species is allied to D. formkoides, Lameere ; it resembles it 

 in form and to a considerable extent also in its markings, but the 

 bands of the elytra are all ashy-white in colour, and instead of 

 three spots in front there are two oblique, very slightly curved 

 bands which meet at the suture ; occasionally, however, these 

 bands are slightly interrupted, appearing then as three spots. 



367. Demonax funebris, Lameere (Clytus), C. li. Soc. Eitt. Belg. 1890, 

 p. ccxii. 



" Elongate, black ; the antennae black, fourth joint spined, the 

 sides of the thorax evenly rounded ; elytra nitid, lightly coria- 

 ceous ; a solitary small spot behind the scutellum, a rounded 

 discoidal spot before the middle, an oblique fascia after the middle 

 and the apices white, the breast and sides of the abdomen beneath 

 with white spots.'' 



" Length 9 mm. 



"■Hah. Hindostan." {Lameere.) 



Genus PSILOMERUS. 



Psilomerus, Chevr. 3Iem. Soc. B. Sci. de IJege, xviii, p. 257 (1863) ; 

 Lacord. Gen. CoUopt. ix, p. 70 (1869). 



Type, P. angustus, Chevr. 



Range. Southern India, Malay Peninsula and Philippine Islands. 



Narrow and elongate in form. Head with a feeble elevation on 

 each side between the antenna ; face subvertical, rectangular, 

 longer than broad ; eyes rather small, feebly emarginate. Antennae 

 slender, filiform, a little longer than the body in the c5' ? shorter in 

 the 2 ; third joint not longer than the fourth, as a rule much 

 shorter, armed with a long slender spine at the apex, the spine 

 cylindrical, not widened at the base, sometimes thickened at the 

 extremity ; fourth and following joints unarmed. Prothorax 

 longer than broad, subcylindrical, nearly as wide at the base as in 

 the middle, slightly narrowed in front. Elytra a little broader 

 than the prothorax, more or less parallel-sided, truncate at the 

 apex, the lateral margins nearly straight. Legs long, slender ; 

 femora gradually thickened from near the middle, the hind pair 

 extended some distance beyond the apex of the elytra ; first joint 

 of hind tarsi loncrer than the rest united. 



