CEBAMBYClDjE. 



$ . Antennae uitid, shorter than the body. Mandibles toothed 

 along the inner edge, touching or overlapping along their whole 

 length when closed. Last ventral segment with rounded hind 

 margin. 



19. Priotyrannns mordax, White (Prionus). Cat. Coleopt. B. M., 

 Longic. \, p. 18 (1853) ; Thorns. (Priotyrannus) Archiv. Ent. i, 

 p. 121, pi. 10, fig. 1 rf (1857). 



d . Dark brown in colour, for the greater part dull. Head 

 strongly, rugosely punctured; mandibles oblique, closely punctured. 

 Antennae with the first joint sub- 

 nitid, thickly and rather strongly 

 punctured ; the third and following 

 joints very minutely granulate, 

 entirely opaque, each with a 

 cariniform anterior edge and most 

 of them furnished also with a 

 number of very fine, longitudinal 

 carinae above ; third joint a little 

 longer than the first and about 

 one-third longer than the fourth. 

 Pronotum coarsely punctured all 

 over like the head. Scutelluin 

 rugosely punctured. Elytra very 

 finely and closely granulated and 

 dull, except near the base ; the 

 base coarsely punctured and some- 

 what shiny near the suture, also 

 at and around the shoulder. 



Hind breast pubescent. 



. Antennae shorter than the 



Fig. 8. 

 Priotyrannus mordax, White, 



body, with the third and a few of 



the following joints shiny above. Last ventral segment rounded 

 at the apex. 



Var. rufescens. Elytra fulvous-red in colour, rugosely punctured, 

 somewhat shiny across the whole of the basal area. 

 Length 22-44 ; breadth 8-17 mm. 

 Hob. Nilgiri and Anaimalai Hills ; Canara, Travancore ; Bombay. 



Group ACANTHOPHORINI. 



This group was formed by Lacordaire for three very closely 

 related genera, only one of which is included in the present fauna, 

 the other two are restricted in their range to the African region. 

 Lameere regards all three as constituting but a single genus, which 

 he places in the group Prionini. From the genera of that group, 

 Acanihophorus differs as follows : The first joint of the antennae 

 relatively very short and thick, the labrum triangular and the 



