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CERA.MBYCIDJE. 



Genus HYPOESCHRUS. 



Hypoeschrus, Thomson, Syst. Ceramb. p. 249 (1864) ; Lacord. Gen. 

 CoUopt. viii, p. 218 (18(39). 



Type, H. strigosus, Gyllenhal, 



Range. Senegal, Abyssinia and India. 



Head impressed with a median line ; front short, slightly 

 concave between the antenuiferous tubercles ; the latter trans- 

 verse, not prominent and not emarginate in front ; eyes coarsely 

 facetted, deeply emarginate, with large lower lobe reaching almost 

 to the base of the mandible. Antennae much longer than the 

 body in the male, not longer than it in the female ; third joint the 

 longest, fourth to eleventh gradually shorter. Prothorax nearly 

 as broad as long, more or less rounded at the sides, flattened or 

 slightly depressed along the middle of the disc, with a median 

 obtusely rounded lobe at the base. Elytra costate, a little broader 

 than the prothorax and more than three times as long ; each 

 somewhat acuminate at the apex and armed with a short spine. 

 Front coxse contiguous, the intercoxale of the prosternum very 

 short and narrow ; their acetabula angulate outwards and open 

 posteriorly. Intercoxale of mesosternum also very narrow. 

 Femora laterally compressed, fusiform ; tarsi long and narrow ; 

 first joint of hind tarsus as long as the remaining joints united. 



97. Hypoeschrus indicus, sp. n. 



Light brown in colour. Head 

 granulate 



Fig. 41. 



Hypoeschrus indicus, 

 Gahan, <$. X f . 



and prothorax very finely 

 and dull. Antennae sparsely 

 fringed with pale setae beneath. Elytra 

 somewhat glossy, very closely punctured ; 

 each with seven raised lines, the first 

 running very close to the sutural edge poste- 

 riorly but diverges slightly from it in front, 

 the third and fifth somewhat more strongly 

 raised, connected with one another and 

 with the seventh by means of oblique cross- 

 lines posteriorly ; the sixth and seventh 

 obsolete in front, and the sixth obsolete 

 also posteriorly. 



Length 12-20 ; Ireadth 3-4| mm. 



Hob. India: Karachi; Calcutta; Belgaum. 



This species is indicated as a sal-tree 

 borer on the labels attached to specimens 

 received from the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Genus (EMOSPILA, g. n. 



Type, (E. maculipennis, Gahan. 

 Range. That of the type species. 



Head with the antennal supports depressed ; the front short 

 aud transverse, marked off from the clypeus by an arcuately 



