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griseo-sulfureis , vitta in elytris latissima, pone medium ad stria m 

 punctoYum primam usque excisa vel anguste interrupta. Long. [cap. 

 excl.) cf 12 mm., 9 9-1 1 mm. 



Andamans, two pairs ; also in the British Museum. 



The median groove of the rostrum is less broad than in 

 M. xanthomelas. The apex of segments 3 and 4 of the cf- 

 antenna, the tip of segment 6 and the entire segments 7 

 and 8 of the 9 -antenna, a spot in the middle of the tibiae 

 and a larger one at or near the base of the first tarsal segment 

 gre^dsh white, the femora and the greater part of the underside of 

 the tibiae being grey. The tibiae and tarsi and segments 5-9 

 of the cf -antenna are slightly rufescent. The median vitta of 

 the pronotum is very little wider in the centre than at both 

 ends, occupying about one-third of the surface of the pronotum. 

 On the black sides of the pronotum there is a minute yellowish dot 

 in one of the 9 $ . The two portions of the sutural vitta are 

 rounded at the sides, expanding to the sixth interspace, the vitta 

 having about the same width at the base of the elytra as at the 

 base of the pronotum. 



The centre of the prosternum and the entire last sternite 

 appear grey instead of yellowish on account of being more thinly 

 pubescent. 



Xenocerus, Schonh. {1833}. 



A very prominent genus of the Oriental Region, to which 

 it is restricted. The species, which are very numerous, are easily 

 recognized as belonging here by the structure of the rostrum and 

 head. 



2r. Xenocerus andamanensis, Jord. (1894). 



Xenocerus andamanensis, Jord., Nov. Zool. p. 637, no. yy (1894) 

 (Andamans). 



A series from the Andamans. 



22. Xenocerus mcsosternalis, Jord. (1894). 



Xenocerus mesosiernalis, Jord,, /. c, p. 638, no. 78 (1894) 

 (" Java" err. loci). 



One cr* from Ceylon. 



When describing this species I gave Java as the locality 

 whence the type came. The specimen was in the Felder collec- 

 tion and bore like all Felder's beetles a minute coloured label 

 indicating the locality. The colours used for different places were 

 in several instances so similar that it was not possible to distin- 

 guish them, particularly if the small labels had become dusty or 

 crumpled up, or had otherwise suffered. The colours for Java 

 and Ceylon were practically the same ; hence the mistake of assign- 

 ing to mesosternalis Java as patria. The species comes from 

 Ceylon. Besides the a* in the Indian Museum I have seen several 

 other specimens from Cevlon. 



