EEIXIMACIIUS. 



323 



longitudinally impressed on disk and transversely impressed near 

 base ; heraelytra rudimentary, reaching the base of the second 

 abdominal segment ; abdomen convexly broadened i'rom base, 

 above with the fifth and sixth segments longest, fourth with a 

 central triangular impression, beneath A\"ith the first four segments 

 centrally divided ; prosternum with a narrow, centra], linear sul- 

 cation ; mesosternum with a very broad central sulcation ; femora 

 incrassated, anterior femora with a basal carination beneath 

 terminating in a distinct dentation, intermediate femora with two 

 dentations beneath ; anterior and intermediate tibiae each with a 

 long, apical, spongy furrow beneath. 



]215. Stegius pravus, sp. n. 



2 . Black, moderately shining; apices of the tibiae beneath and 

 the tax'si longly ochraceously pilose ; antennae with the first 

 and second joints robust and subequal in length ; head with 

 the lateral areas in front of eyes finely granulate, transversely 

 impressed behind eyes, the impression a little curved ; pronotum 

 with the anterior lobe tnmid, its lateral and anterior margins 



Fig. 208. — Stegius pravus. 



carinately refiexed, with a discal central impression, and much 

 longer than posterior lobe ; hemelytra rudimentary and reaching 

 the second abdominal segment ; central disk of fourth abdominal 

 gegment above with a subtriangular process ; mesosternum with 

 a broad, central, transversely striate fiurow ; first four ventral 

 segments beneath medially divided, fifth centrally impressed. 



Length 23 millim. 



Hah. Bengal ; Jalpaigori. 



Genus ERIXIMACHUS, nov. 



Type, E. glohosus, Dist. 



Distribution. Southern India. 



2 • Broadly subovate, abdomen globose ; head very broad, 



YOL. II. '/, 



