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Fairm. (1897) really belong to Basitropis. It is replaced in Africa 

 b}' Gynandroccrus, Lac. (1866), and in America by Eugonus, 

 Schonh. (1833). 



The species are easily recognized by the secondary sexual 

 characters of the cf c found in the antennae, abdomen and the legs. 



47 Basitropis hamata^ Jord. (1903). 



Basitropis hamaia, Jord., Nov. Zool. p. 4^2, no. 51 (1903) 

 (Calcutta). 



Andaman Is., a new record. 



The foretibia of the cf bears a broad tooth at the apex. 



48. Basitropis affinis, Jord. (1903). 



Basitropis affinis, Jord., I.e. no. 52 (1903) (Andamans; Sumatra; 

 Celebes). 



Johore, Mai. Pen. {Moti Ram) and Andamans. 

 Foretibia of cf without tooth at the apex, last ventral segment 

 sinuate. 



49. Basitropis nitidicutis, Jekel (1855). 



Basitropis nitidieutis, Jekel, Ins. Saund. i, p. 92, t. 2, tig. 2, 2a 

 (1855) (Java; India). 



The commonest Indo-Malayan species of the genus. 

 Andamans; Chatrapur, Ganjam district, Madras; Calcutta, 

 i-vi-i907; Peradenij'a, Ceylon, 30-vi-i9io. 



Ozotomerus, Perr. (1853). 



The species of this genus require revising. The distinctness 

 of some of them appears to me to be very doubtful. The material 

 in the Tring Museum is but scanty apart from the specimens from 

 New Guinea and Australia. 



50. Ozotomerus maculosus, Perr. (1853). 



Ozotomem^ maciilosus, Perr., Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon 2, i, p. 406 

 (1853) (Calcutta). 



A small series of both sexes from the Andamans. All these 

 examples bear a black patch behind the middle of each elytrum, 

 the patch being large in seven specimens and small in one. None 

 of them have a large black subapical spot on each elytrum, as 

 mentioned in Perroud's description and indicated in the figure 

 given in Lacordaire's Atlas, and for that reason I refer the 

 Andaman examples with some doubt to maculosus. 



Araecerus, vSchonh. (1833). 



An essentially Oriental genus extending to Madagascar, one of 

 the species being distributed throughout the tropics. 



