2o8 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. IX, 



Habrissus, Pasc. (1859). 



Recognized by the very thin antennae bearing long dispersed 

 bristles, the rostrum being short and the eyes oblique. 



18. Habrissus heros, Pasc. (1871). 



Habrissus heros, Pasc. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 8, p. 359, pi. 14, 

 fig. 5 (1871) (Labuan). 



One cf from vSinkip Is., off Sumatra [Moti Ram). 



Mecotropis, Lac. (1866). 



Distributed from Ceylon to New Guinea. One species is known 

 from Ceylon and South India, M. bipunctalus, Lac. (1866) and 

 another from Assam, M . vitticoUis, Jord. (1895). We add here two 

 conspicuous new species, both from the Andamans. 



19. Mecotropis xanthomelas, sp. nov. 



■f 5. Niger, f route cum rostro sulcata, oculis intergris ; vitta 

 mediana ah occipitc ad pronoti basin, extensa, maculis duabus magnis 

 suturalibus sinuatis, atque fere tola proiia facie fulvis. Long {cap. 

 excl.) 9 20 tmn., cf 13 mm. 



Andamans, one pair (type 5 ) the cf much damaged. Also 

 in the British Museum. 



The species is in colouring unlike anything hitherto described. 

 The legs and antennae have no grey or light-coloured pubescence. 

 The upperside bears an orange-fulvous stripe from the occiput 

 to the apex of the elytra. The stripe has two dots in the centre 

 of the pronotum, one on each side of the median line, and is 

 interrupted in the middle of the elytra. The proximal portion 

 of the elytral stripe expands posteriorly to beyond the fourth 

 line of punctures, is excised at the sides and somewhat rounded 

 anteriorly, being half as wide in front as behind. The posterior 

 portion of the stripe is as broad in front as the anterior portion is 

 behind, the sides being excised down to the first line of punctures. 

 Behind the sinus the patch widens out again about to the third 

 line of punctures and then narrows almost gradually. A large 

 lateral ]3atch on the prosternum and the remainder of the under- 

 snrface with the exception of a broad median stripe is also 

 orange-fulvous, the last ventral segment of the 9 , however, being 

 black at the sides as well as in the centre. 



The pronotum is strongly depressed posteriorly, particular- 

 ly at the carina, the depression occupying posteriorly^ rather more 

 than one-third of the surface. 



20. Mecotropis ephippium, sp, nov. 



cf 2 . Niger ,f route cum rostro sulcata , oculis integris ; vitta mediana 

 ab apice rostri ad apiccm elytrorum extensa atque fere tola prona jade 



