496 Mr. B. P. Uvarov—Records and 
This species is represented in the Pusa collection by a 
very large series of specimens from different localities ; 
it is rather variable in coloration, but the morphological 
characters are fairly constant. 
TAPINOPHYMA, gen. nov. 
Size medium for the subfamily. General form sub- 
cylindrical. Antenne rather short, flattened dorso-ventrally, 
feebly dilated in the middle part. Head obtusely conical, 
shorter than pronotum ; frontal ridge in profile distinctly 
convex, thick, flat, but with the median part distinctly 
depressed and very densely ‘punctured, while its lateral 
margins are perfectly smooth, slightly raised, rather broad 
and very obtuse, scarcely diverging downwards ; lateral 
facial carine irregular, strongly convex, smooth, while the 
whole face is strongly and densely punctured. Fastigium 
of vertex very short and very obtuse; its upper surface 
convex, very feebly marginated anteriorly, impresso-punctate, 
with thick but low middle carina, gradually disappearing 
about the middle of occiput: margins of fastigium very 
thick, obtuse, and perfectly smooth. Eyes egg-shaped, 
strongly narrowed towards apex, which is almost acute; fore 
margin almost straight, very oblique, upper (hind) margin 
convex. Pronotum subcylindrical ; dise slightly convex, 
rugulose, with irregular longitudinal carinule in apical and 
basal parts ; three transverse furrows, of which the first is 
as (distant from the fore margin as the third is from the 
hind margin, while the distance between them is shorter ; 
and the second furrow is placed twice as near to the first as 
it is to the third. Median keel of pronotnm distinctly 
raised, rather thick, smooth, straight in profile; lateral keels 
low, but thick, shining, straight, feebly diverging backwards. 
Lateral lobes of pronotum slightly convex, very strongly and 
rugosely punctured, longer than wide. Prosternal tubercle 
not unlike that of Platyphyma, strongly bent backwards, its 
lower surface very broad, concave, trapezoidal, with lateral 
margins raised and hind margin feebly excavated, lying on 
mesosternum. Pectus elongate, impresso-punctate; meso- 
sternal lobes about as broad as long, with inner margins 
angulato-convex, touching each other in the middle, with 
hind angles obtuse, rotundate; metasternal lobes longer 
than wide, contiguous throughout along a straight line. 
Elytra not reaching the apex of abdomen. Wings developed. 
Fore femora rounded; middle femora laterally compressed, 
carinated, widened towards the apex ; hind femora long and 
