212 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



and closely punctulate. Legs rather short, stout, the femora 

 strongly clavate. 



Length 3 1 mm. (<J ?) 



Hab. Bengal, Sarda (F. W. Champion). 



One specimen, in very fresh condition, recently received 

 from one of my sons resident in India. Very like the 

 insect assumed to be the type of M. fumosa (= rubro- 

 apicata, Pic), and similarly coloured; but much smaller, 

 less robust, and more shining, the head, antennae, and 

 prothorax shorter, the prothorax more rounded (less 

 compressed) at the sides anteriorly, the elytra without 

 a dense patch of white hairs on the disc below the base 

 (conspicuous in the Dacca insect, but not mentioned by 

 Pascoe), the tibial spurs smaller. Compared with M. 

 linita, from Ceylon, the present species has much shorter 

 antennae, a more transverse, darker head, a wholly red 

 prothorax, and differently coloured elytra. 



14. Macratria pallipes. (Plate LXIV, figs. 17, £, prothorax 

 in profile; 17a, anterior leg, <$.) 



? Macrarthrius pallipes, Motsch., Bull. Mosc. xxxvi, 1, 

 p. 489 (1863) (nee Fairm., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, 

 pp. 364, 365). 



$. Very elongate, shining, clothed above with rather coarse, 

 decumbent, pale brownish hairs, with scattered, fine, erect hairs inter- 

 mixed, the under surface densely cinereo-pubescent ; nigro-piceous, 

 the head obscurely rufescent, the palpi, mouth-parts, antennae, and 

 legs (a broad black patch towards the apex of the posterior femora, 

 and the infuscate basal joint of the posterior tarsi, excepted) tes- 

 taceous. Head rather small, as long as broad, considerably developed 

 behind the large eyes, rounded at the sides posteriorly, sparsely, 

 minutely punctate, the occipital groove deep; antennae slender, 

 joints 9-11 thickened, 9 and 10 not much longer than those pre- 

 ceding, 11 about one-half longer than 10. Prothorax a little wider 

 than the head, long, oval, strongly attenuate anteriorly, obliquely 

 compressed on the flanks posteriorly (the setose hind angles thus 

 appearing prominent), densely scabroso-punctate, the basal groove 

 complete. Elytra much wider than the head, long, subparallel ; 

 sparsely punctulate, and also somewhat coarsely punctato-striate 

 to near the apex, the interstices a little raised. Legs very long, the 

 femora strongly clavate. 



<J. Prothorax narrower, less rounded at the sides, rapidly narrowed 



