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margin of the segments very finely denticulated towards the sides, 

 smooth across the disk. Sternum black, shining, slightly brassy, 

 with a few punctures on the prosternum and with a large, opaque 

 wrinkled patch occupying the greater part of each side of meso- and 

 metasterna ; legs black ; tarsi castaneous ; rostrum piceous ; 

 antennte brown, with the second joint reddish." {Dallas.) 



Length 8 to 9| millim. 



Hah. Bombay (Ld/>70, Deccan(Z)rty). Burma: Karennee, Katha, 

 Schwego-Myo, Palon {Fea). Tenasserim : Thagata, Kawkareet 

 (Fea). — Widely distributed throughout the ^lalay Archipelago and 

 found in Japan. 



174. Macroscytus expansus, Siyn. Ann. Soc Ent. Fr. (6) ii, p. 479, 



t. 14, f. 138 (1882). 



Described as dift'ering from the preceding species {M. suhaeneus) 

 by the more ciliated margin of the head and by having the third 

 joint of the antennae shorter than the second. 



Length 7 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim (Co/?. Z>/si.). Bombay; Deccan (Day). 



The type is stated by Signoret to be in my own collection, and was 

 evidently founded on a specimen I sent my old and valued friend 

 when he was working out the family. It is probably still in his 

 collection now contained in the Vienna Museum. 



175. Macroscytus foveolus, Dall. (.Etlms) List He^n.'i,^. 113 (18-51); 



Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii, p. 472, t. 13, f. 131 (1882). 



" Head rather small, with the anterior margin rounded, entire, 

 the lateral lobes not meeting beyond the central ; pitchy-broA^n, 

 with the margins paler and fringed with fine bristles. Ocelli very 

 large, red. Thorax pitchy-brown, with the posterior margin 

 chestnut ; anterior margin with a faint, finely punctured, transverse 

 fovea ; lateral margins finely and thickly punctured, and fringed 

 with long, stout bristles ; posterior portion of the disk finely 

 and sparingly punctured. Scutellum pitchy-brown at the base, 

 becoming chestnut-brown towards the apex, rather strongly but 

 sparingly punctured ; the tip with a distinct fovea. Coriaceous 

 portion of the elytra bright chestnut-brown, thickly and finely 

 punctured ; membrane brownish, semitransparent. Abdomen 

 beneath pitchy, very smooth, shining, with the disk impunctate, 

 the sides thickly and finely punctured. Breast pitchy, thickly and 

 finely punctured. Anterior legs pitchy-red ; four posterior pitchy, 

 with the coxae reddish ; all the tarsi fei'ruginous. Hostrum pitchy- 

 red, with the apex pitchy. Antennae ferruginous, dusky towards 

 the base." {Dallas.) 



Length 8.| to 11 millim. 



Hah. North lxi(li\2i{Uarchvicl:e). Sikhim ; Mungphu (J.;Hnso/i).— 

 A species to be recognized by the foveate pronotum. 



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