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extending to the centre, the declivity beginning before the 

 apical third ; laterally narrowed from near the base to the 

 apical third and then broadening again before the bluntly 

 rounded apex, the striae are furnished with large variolose 

 impressions increasing in size from the base and each having 

 a minute hair at its circumference ; the interstices flat with 

 minute piliferous punctures partially replaced in the first six 

 interstices by tubercles before the rounded declivity, the 

 second interstice being unarmed to the apex which is acutely 

 margined ; the elytral base is furnished with a transverse 

 row of longish hairs along the edge. The legs and antennae 

 testaceous. 



Long. 2 mm. 



Hab. Bengal, India (C. Beeson). 



The elytral depression gives the appearance of a saddle- 

 back to this species, which is very distinctive, although it is 

 similar in many ways to X. laticollis, Bklf., which, however, 

 is much larger, with a differently shaped prothorax and 

 elytral declivity, etc. 



Genus Eccoptopterus, Motsch. 



Eccoptopterus, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. xxxvi. 1863, i. p. 515. 

 Platydactylus, Eickk. Not. Leyden Mus. viii. 1886, p. 110. 

 Eurydactylus, Ilaged. Deut. Eiit. Zeit. 1909, p. 733. 



Eccoptopterus gracilipes, Eichh. 



Hab. Molucca. 



Several females from Sarawak (Quop) . 



Genus Phloeosinus, Chap. 



The following species is described from a long series is 

 the Calcutta Museum Collection ; they are only labelled 

 " Deyhra Dun," and there is no locality mentioned : — 



Phloeosinus jubatus, sp. n. 



<$ . Oblong ; head black, and in mature specimens the 

 prothorax is black and the elytra a deep brown. Front 

 slightly concave, rugose, with a median shiny ridge to the 

 centre. Prothorax not longer than broad, uarrowed apically ; 

 the dorsum slightly flattened in a semicircle from the anterior 

 end of the shiny median line, as far as two other shiny 

 spaces on each side of the basal third ; the anterior edge 

 furnished with a broad polished band, the rest of the pro- 

 thoracic surface being covered with piliferous punctures, 

 with longer hairs on the sides. Elytra striate, the striae 



