64 Records of the Indian Musewm. [VoL. XI, 
ral carinae before the shoulders on each side forward near the 
sulci terminating in a rose-coloured spot ; sides of pronotum at the 
front of lateral lobes produced on each side in a tubercle ; posterior 
angles of the lateral lobes turned down not at all laminate, the 
lateral margins just before the angles ou'wardly produced in an 
acute strong spine on each side, directed obliquely forward and 
little curvate toward the apex. Elytra moderately wide at the 
base and distinctly narrowed acuminate backward to the apices, 
externally strongly impresso-punctate ; wings extended nearly to 
the apex of the process. Anterior and middle femora strongly 
elongate and narrow, margins of the anterior above subbicrenulate 
toward the base; middle femoral margins above subundulate; 
hind femora slender elongate ; carinae of posterior tibiae strongly 
dilated ; the first joints of the hind tarsi strongly membraneous 
expanded ; the first and second pulvilli small subacute, and widely 
separated, dividing the article into thirds, the third pulvilli 
strongly obtuse and planate below. 
Entire length of body, male, 25 mm.; pronotum 24 mm.; post. 
femora 8 mm. 
Habitat.—Thingannyinaung to Sukli, Dawna Hills, Tenasserim , 
goo-2100 ft. elevation, Nov. 23, 1911 (F. H. Gravely). One example, 
Ind. Mus. coll. 
This species differs from Scelimena sanguinulenta, which also 
has rose-coloured spines, in being longer, and the lateral spines are 
not so long produced. The new species is devoid of the median 
produced tubercle at the front of the pronotum, which is styliform 
and strongly produced in /ongifes. From the latter species it also 
differs in the legs being less attenuate, though very slender, and 
in the lateral spines being less cylindrical. 
Genus Scelimena, Serville. 
Table for distinguishing the Indian species. 
1. Vertex narrower than one of the eyes, 
narrowed forward. 
2. Humeral angles not at all provided with 
evident denticles. 
3. Lateral lobes of the pronotum bearing 
one spine only on each side. 
4. Spine on each side of the lateral lobes 
triangular acute and straight, the apex 
sharp, not at all curvate, coloured 
yellow ; vertex very narrow; dorsum 
convex between the shoulders; body 
more or less fuscous or greyish-fuscous 
marked with yellow . harpago, Serville. 
4. 4. Spine on each side of the lateral lobes of 
pronotum produced, slender, and hook- 
ed forward, often bright rose-coloured or 
coral red BS ee gavialis, Saussure. 
