clypeus, sides and the lower part of the anteunal supports; vertex 

 marked with an impressed line which widens out into a channel 

 in front between the eyes and antennal supports ; clypeus limited 

 above by two oblique or somewhat arcuate lines that converge 

 towards the channel between the depressed transversely directed 

 anteunal supports ; mandibles of male falciform, with tooth at 

 base and an emargination forming two teeth at the apex, the 

 upper border carinate, those of the 

 female very much shorter, straight 

 or but slightly diverging from the 

 base and incurved towards the tip, 

 the inner edge of each with one or 

 two feeble teeth. Antennae of $ 

 scarcely reach beyond the base of 

 the prothorax ; those of the J are 

 longer and stronger ; joints third 

 to tenth angulated in front at the 

 apex, more acutely so in the d 

 than in the , rather sparingly 

 punctured behind, closely and 

 rugosely punctured in front. Pro- 

 thorax transverse, the lateral edges 

 projecting in an angle at about 

 one-third of their length from 

 the base ; disk convex with a 

 slight depression in the middle, 

 sparingly punctured and glossy 

 over the whole of the middle area, closely rugose-punctate towards 

 the sides. Elytra much less than twice as long as their width 

 across the base, obtusely rounded at the apex, irregularly rugose 

 and punctate in the $ , smoother and less punctate in the <5 , 

 each with two feebly-raised dorsal lines. Tibiae of the anterior two 

 pairs rather sparingly punctured in front, closely behind, those of 

 the hind pair densely and coarsely punctured on both sides ; third 

 joint of tar^i completely bilobed. Hind breast sparsely clothed 

 with longish tawny hairs ; abdomen finely and rather closely 

 punctate ; last ventral segment of $ rounded behind and fringed 

 with tawny setae. 



Length tf 38, $ 25; breadth 3 16, $ 11 mm. 

 Hah. Bombay ( J type) and Ceylon ( $ ). 



Fig. 10. 

 Cantharocncmis downesi, Pasc., 



Group EURYPOD1NI. 



Eyes eraarginate. Ligula entire. First antennal joint short, 

 the third long. Lateral margins of prothorax entire, or some- 

 times (Neoprion) with an angle or tooth near the middle. Inter- 

 eoxal process of the prosternum in the form of a rather thin 

 horizontal plate. Legs smooth. A sexual difference in the 

 puncturation of the prothorax as well as in the length of the 

 antennae and mandibles. 



