I9I3-] G. J. Arrow : Colcoptera, IV. 193 



nitido, grosse punctato, margine antico fortiter elevato, fere recto, 

 fronte opaco, sicut pronoto minute putictato; scutello antice lato, 

 apice sat acuta, laterihus fere rectis ; elytris sulcatis, irregulariter 

 hand minute punctatis, utter stitiis convexis, pygidio grosse punc- 

 tata ; tibiis anticis fortiter bidentaiis : 



cf , antennis $-foliatis ; 9 , antennis ■yfoliatis. 



Lang. 5 — 5'5 mm. Lat. max. 3*5 — 4 mm. 



Hab. Assam : Sylhet ; Rotung, 1400 ft., 6 — 13-111-1912. 



Found by Mr. Kemp under bark and also on flowers. 



This Is less brightly coloured than the majority of the little 

 species which compose the genus Microserica. The head and pro- 

 notum are deep green-black, the elytra black or brick-red and 

 slightly iridescent posteriorly. The body is globose, the clypeus 

 shining and coarsely punctured, with its anterior edge strongly 

 reflexed and nearly straight. The forehead is opaque and, with 

 the pronotum, finely punctured. The scutellum is broad in front 

 and acute at the apex. The elytra are irregularh/ sulcate and 

 fairly strongly punctured. The p^^gidium is coarsely punctured. 

 The front tibiae are strongly bidentate. The club of the antenna 

 consists of 5 joints in the male and 3 in the female. 



14. Serica sp. 



Below Damda, 300 ft., 31-1-1912 — -i-ii-1912 ; Rotung, 1400 

 ft., 3r-xii-i9ii. Under stones. Two specimens in bad 

 condition. 



15. Serica sp. 



Janakmukh, 600 ft., iz-xii-igii. One specimen found under 

 bark by Mr. Kemp, in bad condition. 



COPRINAE. 



16. Gymnopleurus assamensis, Wat. 



Kobo, 400 ft., 30-111-1912. Two specimens were found by Mr. 

 Kemp. 



This species is common in Assam and Burma, where it replaces 

 G. sinuatus, Oliv., the closely allied corresponding form of Siam, 

 China and Japan. Korea was quoted by Mr. Waterhouse as a 

 habitat of G. assamensis , but this was an error due to wrong label- 

 ling of specimens. 



17. Paraphytus Hindu, sp. nov. 



Niger, nitidus, elongatus, convexus, capite incsquali ; clypeo 4- 

 dentato) pronoto crehre punctata, elytris subtiliter {octes) striatis, 

 striis sat reniote punctatis ; corporis subtus lateribus grosse et crebre 

 punctatis, metasterno pastice modice punctata, antice laevi, sutura 

 mesa- met aster nali fere recta. 



