PHILTTS. 



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are relatively broader at the base, narrower in the middle and 

 more distinctly costate above. 



Length 20 ; breadth 5 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon (in coll. ObertMir). 



Genus PHILUS. 



Philus, Sautiders, Trans. Ent. Soc. (2) ii, p. 110 (1853) ; Laeord. 

 Gen. Coleopt. viii, p. 159 (1869). 



Type, P. antennatus, Gyllenh., a species from China. 



Range. China, Northern India and Malay Peninsula. 



Mesonotum with a stridulatory area, which is divided by a 

 median line or groove. In other respects the srenus agrees with 

 Dcesus, Pasc. The species as a rule are somewhat larger than 

 those of the latter genus and have the lateral margins of the 

 prothorax fairly well-developed. But the single species that 

 occurs in India is smaller and narrower than the others and has 

 no trace of a lateral margin to the prothorax. 



53. Philus globulicollis, Thorns. Essai Classif. Ceramb. p. 298 (1861). 



<5 . Head, prothorax and base of elytra reddish-testaceous, the 

 rest of the body and elytra yellowish -testaceous or fulvous in 

 colour ; covered above with a very short pale tawny pubescence ; 

 the underside sparsely pubescent. Head closely punctate. Antennae 

 about one-fifth longer than the body; the joints from -the third 

 to the tenth acutely angulate at the apex 

 on the anterior side, the third and fourth 

 somewhat less acutely so than the others. 

 Prothorax slightly transverse, subcylindrical r 

 a little rounded at the middle of each side 

 and without lateral margins ; the notum very 

 closely punctured at the sides, somewhat 

 less closely in the middle. Elytra densely 

 punctured, much broader than the prothorax 

 and three times as long as broad ; each with 

 two very feebly raised dorsal lines. Hind 

 femora and hind coxae with a channel and 

 thick fringe of hairs beneath ; middle femora 

 with a short channel and thick fringe of hairs 

 near the base ; the front femora flattened or 

 slightly concave beneath, with a sparse fringe 

 of hairs at each side. Third joint of tarsi 

 cleft to the middle. Last ventral segment 

 truncate at the apex. 



2 Like the male in form ; the antennae slender, not reaching 

 past the middle of the elytra ; the 'femora not channelled nor 

 fringed with hairs beneath ; the last ventral segment rounded at 

 the apex. 



Length 21-22 ; breadth 5| mm. 

 Hob. Northern India. 



Fig. 21. Phifas glo- 

 bulicollis, Thorns'., c?. 



