14 CEBAAfBYCIDJE. 



feebly dentate at the suture. Third joint of the tarsi more or less 

 deeply bilobed, the lobes rounded at the end. Other characters 

 almost as in Lopliosternus. 



$ . Antennae shorter than the body, more slender than in the 

 d . and not denticulate underneath. Legs smooth. Abdomen 

 rounded at the apex. 



13. Paraphrus granulosus, Thorns. (Cyrtognathus) Essai Class. 

 Ceramb. p. 329 (1861). 



d . Brick-red in colour, the head and antennas sometimes 

 inclining to dark brown; prothorax and elytra almost entirely 

 opaque. Head nitid and very sparsely punctured in front ; upper- 

 side rugosely punctate and opaque. Antennas : the first five 

 or six joints 'more or less nitid above, somewhat asperate under- 

 neath ; the first three or four sparsely punctate and the last 

 six or seven densely rugulose-punctate and opaque. Pronotum 

 finely and very closely punctured over its whole area. Elytra 

 somewhat rugulose, closely and very finely punctulate. Hind 

 breast pubescent. Last ventral segment with an arcuate emargi- 

 nation at the apex. Front and middle legs asperate underneath. 

 Third joint of tarsi with its cleft extending three-fourths of the 

 way to the base, and its lobes obtusely rounded at the end. 



Variation. In some small males the pronotum has two nitid or 

 sub-nitid spaces near the middle and another, transverse, at the 

 base, these spaces being much more finely and less closely punc- 

 tured than the rest of the surface. 



5 . Form and colour of c? - Antennas shorter than the body, 

 more slender than in the male, and not denticulate or scabrous 

 underneath. Legs smooth. Last ventral segment rounded at 

 apex. Hind breast less densely pubescent. 



Length rf $ 33-65; breadth 11-25 mm. 



Hob. Mungphu in Sikhim (Atkinson Coll.) ; Burma : Thayetmyo, 

 Moulmein, N. Chin Hills ( Watson), Thaungyin Valley (Bingham), 

 Ivakhieu Hills (B. L. Stanton}; Siam. 



Genus PRIONUS. 

 Prionus, Geoffroy, Hist. Ins. de Paris, i, p. 198 (1762). 



Type, P. coriarius, Linn. European. 



Range. Europe, Western and Northern Asia, Japan, and North 

 America. 



c? . Head short, transverse, more or less concave in front ; 

 mandibles stout, rather short, vertical, abruptly incurved and 

 acute at the tip, with or without a tooth on the inner edge ; palpi 

 moderately long, the labial somewhat shorter than the maxillary. 

 Eyes rather large, reniform. Antennae at least three-fourths the 

 length of the body, with twelve or more joints ; first joint rather 

 short, third the longest : the joints from the third or fourth to the 



