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widening to the base, where the hind angles in both sexes are 

 acute and produced behind. The disk is uneven with an irregular 

 deep channel, but in front, at least in the female, the centre is 

 keeled. The elytra are dull, evenly striated as in D. puhicornis, 

 blood-red, but with an ochraceous tint. The eyes are ralher large, 

 the thorax of the maie is more constricled than in the Ceylonese 

 species of this genus. It is the only Ditoneces similarly colored that 

 is known to me. 



Plateros (Endotaphus) dispellens. — Lycus dispellens 

 Walk. Ann. and Mag. N. H., 1858, II, p. 282; Waterh. 111. of typical 

 Col. Brit. Mus. Lycidœ, 1879, p. 26. 



Hab. India, Nilgiri Hills. 



This insect occurs commonly in Southern India as well as in 

 Geylon. 



Plateros indianus n. sp. — Conderidi nilgirensi persimilis, 

 niger subnitidus, antennis leviter serratis; prothoracis marginibus 

 reflexis, basi breviter canaliculato, antice subcarinato, elytris 

 rubricatis. — Long. 7-8 mill. 



Hab. India, Nilgiri Hills, 6000 feet (H.-L. Andrewes). 



The whole insect with the exception of the elytra is black, and 

 both in size and proportions so nearly resembles Conderis nilgi- 

 reiisis, that it might well be taken for the female of that species. 

 There are however maies and females, the former hâve the thorax 

 a little narrower, and the antennae are less serrate; and are also 

 black at the apex in both sexes. In the female, the antennae are only 

 faintly serrate; and in both sexes, the three apical joints are linear. 

 The thorax is proporlioned, and in sculpture exactly like that of 

 C. nilgirensis, but it does not appear to bave the red pubescence. 

 The elytra are so much alike to those of C. nilgirensis that I cannot 

 point out amy différence. There are eight examples before me. 



Xylobanus unicolor n. sp. — Totus ochraceus, thorace 

 distincte quinque-areolato, elytris postice modice ampliatis, inter- 

 stitiis tertio et quarto costatis, disco depressiusculo. — Long. 

 9-10 mill. 



Hah. India, Cashmir. 



This is a very easy species to recognise, from the fact that it is 

 entirely of one colour, which is ochraceous. The thorax is divided 

 in to five large areolets, of which the central one is lozenge-shaped, 

 with its extremities reaching the front and hind margins. The 

 antennse are rather more than half as long as the whole insect; the 

 intermediate joints from the fourth, shorter and thicker in the 

 female, and the thorax is wider in that sex. The interstices are ail 



