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tared ; metasternuni prolonged into a robust straight spine, 

 covered with long bristly liairs, pointing downwards just before 

 the anterior pair of legs. Scutellum large, elongate, triangular, 

 punctured. Elytra rather broader than the thorax, elongate, the 

 upper surface deeply punctured, rounded at the apex, and deeply 

 excavated laterally behind the shoulders. Legs long, somewhat 

 slender ; the anterior tibia with two strong teeth on the apex 

 exteriorly. Tarsi five-jointed, the first joint nearly concealed, the 

 terminal joint the most slender ; the joints grooved on the upper 

 surface. Claws short, nearly straight. 



This species is entirely of a jet, somewhat glossy, black, the 

 antennae and trophi inclining to piceous. 



Sp. 2. Cremastocheilus brunneus. (Plate XIII. fig. 2.) 



Length -^^ inch. From Upper India. 



In my own collection. 



Head depressed, subquadrate, narrowed in front, rounded on 

 the anterior angles, excavated for the insertion of the eyes and 

 antennae ; black, with the upper surface rugosely punctured. 

 Thorax orbicular, with a depressed longitudinal line down the 

 centre, thickly and deeply punctured on tlie upper surface, very 

 dark pitchy brown, shining ; mesosternum terminating in a strong, 

 somewhat curved, hairy spine, pointing downwards, just befoi-e 

 the anterior pair of legs. Scutellum large, elongate, trigonate, 

 pitchy brown, slightly rugose. Elytra a little broader than the 

 thorax, elongate ; the apex angular, deeply excavated laterally 

 behind the shoulders, slightly punctured, shining, of a rich dark 

 brown, darker on the shoulder. Wings ample. Body underneath 

 dark brown, sinning, the region of the metasternuni deeply punc- 

 tured and covered with long silky hairs. Legs long, slender, 

 pitchy brown, the anterior tibia with two strong teeth on the 

 apex externally. Tarsi five-jointed, the first joint nearly concealed, 

 terminal joint the most slender. Claws short, nearly straight. 



The two species I have just described were collected by Lieut. 

 G. Campbell, of the Bengal Artillery, in the north of India, but 

 exactly in what part I am unable to say. They are nearly allied 

 species, but abundantly distinct ; the latter, besides differing in 

 colour, has a rounder thorax, the apex of the elytra not rounded, 

 and the mesosternum covered with a silky pubescence. The 

 genus Cremastocheilus, as it now stands, contains species very dif- 

 ferent in structure and must be divided, in which case the two 

 species now described will form a good sub-genus, which may be 

 distinguished by the orbicular thorax, the produced metasternuni, 



