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second joint short, the third elongate, the fourth to the eighth 

 gradually becoming shorter, the three terminal joints form a lax 

 club, and are as wide or wider than long, the apical one com- 

 pressed, bitten off as it were at the tip, With regard to colour this 

 insect is evidently very variable as regards the thorax and elytra, 

 (the underside legs and antennae seem constant). Of eleven exam- 

 ples taken by M. Andrewes scarcely two are alike, the thorax is 

 ferruginous or may hâve a faint cloud on the front part of ils 

 disk. The elytra are ferruginous in two examples, in one (that 

 from the Anamalais Hills), there is a small black dot on the centre 

 of each, in three there are four large black dots (two on each 

 elytron) and the margin and apex are blaak; in two, Ihe base margin 

 and apex are dark (indeterminately) and the disk blood-red, 

 whiie in two the elytra are black with a red spot or lunule, and 

 in yet one wholly black. In size it appears also very variable. 



This insect is allied to and somewhat like the species described 

 by M. Lewis from Japan as S. dichrous, Ent. Mo. Mag., 1891, p. 210. 

 I bave been able by bis kind courtesy to compare it with this 

 species. S. dichrous is of a différent shape; the elytra are wider 

 behind than at the base or middle, they are distinctly punctured, 

 as is the thorax; and the antennse are wholly yellow, and are more 

 serrate. 



Fam. ENDOMYCHID.^. 



Indalmus Kirhymius Lat. 



Hah. India, Nilgiri Hills, Kallar; beating, 1000 feet. 



Ancylopus melanocephalus Oliv. 



Hah. India, Nilgiri Hills. Under stones and beating, 5000- 

 6000 feet. 



The eight examples are very black; the elytra being of that tint 

 with two red fascise on each, interrupted at the suture, and with a 

 dentale expansion parallel to the suture. Thèse pertain to the var. 

 pictus Wied, of which Gerstaecker records the female; there are 

 examples of bolh sexes before me. 



Panomœa coccinellina Gerst. Mon. Endom., p. 366; Gorh.,Eudom. 

 Récit., p. 28. 



Hah. India, Kanara (Bell), 4 ex. ; Anamalais Hills (Andrewes), 

 1 ex. 



The occurrence of this species in India, it having hitherto been 

 only recorded from the Philippine Islands is remarkable, and there 

 is no différence of any moment in any of the flve examples. That 

 from the Anamalais Hills has the spots large, and is of a deep 

 blood-red colour. 



