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tlian the strlse, each with a row of small granules bearing 

 short recumbent setfe and some scattered yellowish hair-like 

 scales (especially in the basal half). Lec/s piceous, with the 

 tarsi paler ; the femora rugosely subfjranulate, with sparse 

 whitish iiair-like scales and each with a small tooth ; the 

 dorsal apical fringe of the hind tibia not longer than the 

 first tarsal joint. Sternum with the front coxae widely 

 separated, but not enough to receive the whole rostrum ; the 

 mesosternum not impressed and sloping steeply ; the meta- 

 sternum simple. 



Length 2?, breadth 1| mm. 



ilkSSAM : Patkai Hills (TF. Doherty^ tjpe) ; Sudiya 

 (^l)oherty^. 



Very similar superficially to M. memecylonis, sp. n., but 

 diffeiing raaikedly in the structure of the sternum, non- 

 angulate front margin of tiie prothorax, short thoracic spine, 

 short third funicular joint, setigerous elytral striae, etc. 



Mecysmoderes pusio, sp. n. 



(J ? . Colour piceous, with greyish-white scaling, the 

 rostrum and tarsi often paler ; tiie scales on the head are 

 rarrow and fairly dense ; on the pronotum they are more 

 hair-like and sparser on the disk, being shorter and denser at 

 the sides and margins and in the central furrow ; on the 

 elytra there is a short stripe of almost circular small scales on 

 the basal fourth of the first interval, the remaining intervals 

 each bearing a single regular row of very narrow and short 

 scales, except on intervals 9 and 10, at the bases of 3 and 5, 

 and on the humeral callus, where the scales are duplicated or 

 more numerous ; on the lower surface the scales are larger, 

 oval, and fairly close, but usually not quite contiguous. 



Head shagreened and shallowly reticulate, with an in- 

 distinct central carina on the vertex only, the forehead 

 shallowly impressed and broader than the club of the an- 

 tenna, nostrum long, slender, and cylindrical, not quite 

 reaching the hind margin of the metasternum (c?) or ex- 

 tending slightly beyond it ( ? ) ; very faintly tricarinate in 

 the basal part, the more shining apical area with indistinct 

 shallow separated punctures. Anten^ice testaceous, the scape 

 with a short apical pointed process, the funicle with the two 

 basal joints subequal, the third slightly longer. Prothorax 

 with the sides about as long as half the basal margin, scarcely 

 rounded and very shallowly constricted at the apex ; the 

 basal margin nearly transverse externally, the central spine 

 short, only about one-eighth the length of the suture, the 



