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anguste rotundato, Ifevissime bifido, carina transversal! frontali vix 

 distincta, medio minute tuberculato, prothorace quam latitudine 

 paiilo breviore, toto simplice, disco vix perspiciie, lateribus fortiter sat 

 grosse punctatis ; scutello Irevi, medio sulcato ; elytris profiinde sat 

 regulariter striato-piinctatis, interstitiis omnibus impunctatis, lateri- 

 bus postice apicibusque grosse et irregulariter punctatis, margine 

 apicali prope angulum paulo abbreviate, ajipendice membranaceo 

 distincto munito ; propygidio parce punctulato et setoso, pygidio 

 fortiter sat crel:>re punctato ; tibiis anticis 4-dentatis. 

 Long. 15 mm. 



Hah. S. India .- Kanara. 



It is rather elongate, black, shining and strongly sculp- 

 tured. The head is strongly and rugosely punctured, with 

 the front of the clypeus feebly bifid and the frontal 

 tubercle not very strong. The prothorax has very minute 

 scattered punctures on the disc, and these become rather 

 abruptly coarse at the sides. The scutellum is unpunc- 

 tured and longitudinally impressed down the middle. 

 The elytra are very strongly striate-punctate, all the 

 interstices being unpunctured and nearly equal, except the 

 juxta-sutural strip, which is narrow. The sides and apices 

 are strongly and irregularly punctured. The apical 

 margins are slightly truncated obliquely at the inner half 

 and continued on a membranous flange. The propygidium 

 is very finely and sparingly punctured and the pygidium 

 very coarsely and thickly. The front tibiae are furnished 

 with three strong pointed teeth and a vestige of a fourth 

 upper one. 



Two female specimens were collected by Mr. T. R. D. 

 Bell. 



* Microryctcs apicalis, sp. n. 



Parvus, sat elongatus, niger, nitidus, corpore subtus rufo-piceo, 

 capite crebre punctato-rugoso, antice anguste rotundato, Isevissime 

 bifido, carina frontali transversal! medio leviter tuberculata ; pro- 

 thorace sat angusto, angulis anticis paulo productis, posticis baud 

 late rotundatis, disco minute, lateribus fortiter sat grosse punctatis ; 

 scutello lajvi, medio sulcato ; elytris profunde striatis, striis latis, 

 confuse punctatis, lateribus postice apicibusque grosse irregulariter 

 punctatis, apicibus conjunctim sat profunde emarginatis, appendici- 

 bus membranaceis ; propygidio minute irregulariter strigoso, parce 



