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cavity. Elytra broader than the prothorax, nearly three times as 

 long as their width across the base, narrowed and rounded at the 

 apex, furnished above with some feebly raised lines. Legs rather 

 long ; the femora fringed with hairs beneath ; tarsi somewhat long, 

 with the first joint as long as the second and third united, and the 

 cleft of the third not extended past the middle. Intercoxal process 

 of prosternum strongly raised, vertical and very narrow behind, 

 not resting on the mesosternum ; that of the mesosternum narrow 

 and triangular, not separating the coxae behind. 



$ . Broader and more robust than the male, with the elytra 

 relatively shorter, and the antennae slender and much shorter 

 than the bodv. 



51. Doesus telephoroid.es, Pasc. Journ. Ent. i, p. 367 (1862). 



3 . Head and prothorax reddish testaceous in colour, the elytra^ 

 legs, and underside yellowish-testaceous; covered above with a 

 short rather faint greyish pubescence. Antennae with the third 

 to tenth joints rather feebly angulate at the apex on the anterior 

 side. Prothorax with its lateral margins extended from the base 

 to a little in front of the middle of each side ; the pronotum 

 sparsely and finely punctured in the middle, more closely at the 

 sides. Elytra closely and rather finely punctured, covered with 

 faint greyish pubescence and furnished with some very feebly 

 raised longitudinal costse. Body beneath pubescent ; apex of last 

 ventral segment very feebly sinuate in the middle. The femora have 

 each a channel beneath filled with pale tawny or greyish hairs that 

 form a fringe. 



$ . Not known. 



Length 13-15 ; breadth 3-3f mm. 



Sab. Central Provinces : Jabalpur. 



52. Dffisns'taprobanicus, s p. n. 



J . Head, prothorax and base of the elytra reddish testaceous 

 in colour, the remaining parts of a paler, yellowish-testaceous 

 covered with a faint greyish-tawny pubescence. Antennae with 

 the third to eighth joints rather strongly angulate at the apex on 

 the anterior side. Prothorax with its lateral margins extended 

 from the base not quite up to the middle of each side ; pronotum 

 closely and finely punctured all over. Elytra closely punctured, 

 broad at the base, strongly narrowed towards the middle, thence 

 to the apex more gradually narrowed ; each with two fairly 

 distinct dorsal costae and one or two feebly raised nearly obsolete 

 lateral costae. The femora have each a channel and fringe of hairs 

 beneath. Last ventral segment rounded at the apex. 



From D. telephoroides, Pasc., this species is distinguishable by 

 its more strongly serrate antennae, shorter prothoracic lateral 

 carinse, more closely punctured pronotum and by its elytra that 



