334 Mr. G. J. Arrow on a Contribution to the 



with rows of very large ring-shaped impressions, the inter' 

 stices minutely and scantily punctulated. The pygidium 

 is coarsely and rather rugosely punctured and the meta- 

 sternura is decorated with large crescentic impressions, 

 except at the middle which is almost smooth. It bears 

 only a few tawny hairs. 



^ . The head is scantily punctured and bears a very 

 short horn in the middle. The protliorax has a faint 

 longitudinal impression which becomes a rather feeble 

 semicircular fovea behind the front margin. 



Eo'phileiirus nilgircnsis, sp. n, 



Niger, nitidus, latus, depressus, prothorace minute sat crebre punc- 

 tate, lateribus valde arcuatLs, angulis posticis fere acuti.s ; scutello 

 minute punctato ; elytiis crebre seriatim punctatis, punctis annulatis 

 baud jjroi'undis ; pygidio basi rugoso, ajjice leviter punctato : 



(J , capite laivi, cornu baud longo ; prothorace antice fortiter 

 circulariter impresso, postice vix sulcato : 



$ , capite prothoraceque antice transverse rugosis. 



Long. 22-24 mm. Lat. max. 12"5 mm. 



Hah. S. India : Nilgiri Hills, 6,000 ft. 



Collected by Captain A. H. Weld Downing and Mr. H. L. 

 Andrewes, by whom the % was dug up in the jungle. 

 ]£. niUjirensis is very nearly related to E. ylanatim, Wiede., 

 but much less finely punctured and the prothoracic fovea 

 in the male is circular, extends in well-developed speci- 

 mens considerably past the middle and is not bounded 

 behind by distinct angulations. The prothorax is closely 

 j)unctured, becoming rugose in front, and the sculpture 

 is only a little coarser than in E. %)lanatus. The sides 

 are strongly rounded but the curvature does not quite 

 reach the posterior angles, which are rather sharp. The 

 scutellum is irregularly punctured. The elytra are closely 

 covered with coarse annular punctures arranged in definite 

 rows and there are a very few minute punctulations in 

 the interstices. The pygidium is rugose at the base and 

 scantily punctured at the apex and the metasternum is 

 densely punctured and clothed with long tawny hair, 

 except in the middle, where it is scantily punctured and 

 bare. 



It will be well, in passing, to call attention to an error 

 in connection with certain species of Fhileunis properly so- 



