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femur ((?) or a little longer ( $ ), cylindrical, slightly tapering 

 to the apex from the insertion of the antennae ; the upper 

 surface witiiout any distinct carinse, but closely and coii- 

 fluently punctate from the base to the antennai, beyond which 

 tlie punctures are finer and isolated, especially in the ? . 

 Antentice testaceous ; the scape without any apical process ; 

 tlie tunicle witli joints 1 and 2 subequal, 3 shorter, 4-(i bead- 

 like. Prothorax with the sides gently rounded and each 

 about as long as half the basal margin, the apical constriction 

 slight; the basal spine nearly one-third the length of tiie 

 suture, the apical dorsal margin feebly angulate in the 

 middle ; the upper surface is regularly and gently convex, 

 without elevations or depressions, evenly set with longitu- 

 dinally confluent punctures, with a low, broad, complete 

 central carina and a fine, short, apical one at some distance on 

 each side of it ; the dorsal outline almost flat, deepest near 

 the base, and sloping forwards. Elytra as long as their 

 greatest width, the striae broad and deep, and containing 

 single rows of narrow scales ; the intervals evidently broader 

 than the striae, fiat, and closely and strongly punctate. Legs 

 black, with the tarsi red-brown, rather thinly clothed with 

 narrow pale scales ; the femora with a stout tooth; all the 

 tibise strongly dilated at the apex, which bears a double row 

 of stout testaceous spines instead of the usual biistles. 

 Sternum with the front coxse so narrowly separated that the 

 rostrum cannot lie between them; the mesosternum almost 

 vertical and not impressed ; the metasternum simple. 



Length 2|-3i, breadth 13-2 mm. 



Madras: Nilgiri Hills {H. L. Andrewes). 



A very distinct species on account of its dilated and pecti- 

 nate tibise, closely approximated front coxae, and unimpressed 

 forehead. • 



Mecysmoderes ienuirostris, sp. n. 



? . Colour reddish brown above, with the head, the 

 thoracic carina and spine, and the basal margin of the elytra 

 blackish ; the head and pronotum with rather sparse yellowish 

 setae, the latter with a small patch of ovate whitish scales on 

 each side before the middle just below the outer carina ; the 

 elytra with the sutural stripe o£ ovate scales extending over 

 nearly half the suture, the scales being blackish except for a 

 short distance at the apex, where they are whitish ; a few 

 ovate whitish scales at the base of interval 2 and near the 

 apex of the suture, the rest of the intervals being clothed 



