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guished from any other of the Cydninae by having the eyes ahnost 

 invisible, composed only of a small tubercle surmounted by one 

 or two others, while the ocelli are absent. 



Head longer than broad, spinulose, ciliated on the margin and 

 on the vertex ; lateral lobes longer than the central, which is, 

 however, free in front ; antennae five-jointed, first joint longest, 

 the last two shortest and globose. Eostrum reaching the inter- 

 mediatje coxae, second joint stoutest and longest. Pronotum twice 

 as broad as long, pilose on the sides and on part of the disk. 

 Scutellum longer than broad, acinuinate. Hemelytra shorter than 

 the abdomen, membrane very short aud veinless ; femora mode- 

 rately dilated ; intermediate aud posterior tibiae ciliated over their 

 whole surface, the first pair with ten spines on tlie outer side, 

 apparently mobile, increasing in length and breadth from base to 

 apex, the internal side furnished with four spines and having long 

 hairs ; tarsi long aud slender ; claws with bristle-like appendages. 

 Odoriferous aperture more or less confused in the mesosternal 

 groove with the ostiole towards the middle, aud forming an oblique 

 opening with a distinct margin at the base and almost none 

 at apex. 



149. Cephalocteus melolonthoides, Schiodte, in Krdy. Nat. Tkksl-r. 

 iv, p. 3:3:J (184:;) ; Atl-. J. A. -S'. B. Ivi, p. S7 (1887). 



I have not seen this species, and can therefore only rely on the 

 description of Schiodte. 



Fuscous or piceous, with ferruginous hairs : scutellum and 

 cerium at the apex of a paler colour, membrane albescent at the 

 apex ; antennae and rostrum ferruginous ; basal margin of head 

 pale yellow ; legs rufous, posterior tibiae piceous, spines fuscous, all 

 the tarsi pale ; head almost one-sixth the length of the body, some- 

 what convex, impressed towards the sides \\\ih some unequal 

 punctures ; anterior margin of the head between the somewhat 

 exserted eyes broadly rounded, deeply incised at centre ; sides of 

 clypeus converging towards the apex, united by a small transverse 

 furrow behind the middle ; pronotum at least twice as broad as 

 its median length, not quite twice as long as the head, narrower 

 than the basal breadth by one-third at apex, convex, densely and 

 minutely punctate, somewhat smooth towards the anterior angles ; 

 scutellum almost twice as long as the pronotum, somewhat con- 

 vex, densely punctate, anterior angles very acute, lateral margins 

 straight, apex broadly rounded ; corium as broad as half of the 

 anterior margin of the scutellum, densely punctate, somewhat 

 convex, sides convexly sloped, externally rounded ; abdomen some- 

 what smooth, with ferruginous hairs. 



Length 3| millim, 



IJab. Travancore. 



G 2 



