118 CEBAHBYCID.E. 



discal tubercles and the median basal impression more distinct 

 than in the tf , and the lateral impressions absent. 



Length 13-21 ; breadth 3^-6 mm. 



Hob. Nilgiri Hills (H. L. Andrewes). 



114. Zoodes eburioides, Lacord. Gen. Coleopt. viii, p. 282 (1869). 



? Stromatium carinulatum, Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxvi, p. 389 (1882). 

 Stromatiuin signiferum, Pasc. A. M. N. H. (5) xv, p. 53 (1885). 



Yellowish or brownish testaceous, covered above with a short 

 greyish pubescence ; elytra marked each with two white spots 

 that are somewhat variable in size, the first at the base, appears as 

 two short unequal spots united in front and divided posteriorly, and 

 has a more or less distinct black border, the second placed for the 

 most part behind the middle usually takes the form of an irregular 

 oblique fascia made up of two spots side by side, the inner one 

 somewhat in advance of the outer, this spot also bordered with 

 black except on the outer side, which approaches more or less, 

 closely to the outer margin of the elytron. AntennaB about one- 

 third longer than the body in the d" , the first joint blackish 

 brown, the rest testaceous ; a little longer than the body and 

 entirely testaceous in the $ . Prothorax of the ^ about one-fourth 

 broader than long, rounded at the sides, narrowed a little at the 

 base, pubescent above and marked with two very faint impressions ; 

 that of the $ shorter and narrower, somewhat parallel-sided, with 

 a shorter and fainter pubescence and five feeble nodosities on the 

 disc. Body beneath sparsely clothed with grey pubescence. 



Length 16-25; breadth 4-6 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



115. Zoodes COmpressus, Fab. (Callidium) Mantissa Ins. i, p. 153 



(1787). 



Entirely brown in colour, the head and prothorax of a rather 

 darker shade than the other parts. Head densely rugulose- 

 punctate ; the clypeus with an elliptical or semicircular, slightly 

 depressed area adjoining the front ; the antenual supports acutely 

 angulate on the inner side in the $ , raised in a short blunt 

 spine in the <5 . Antennae one-third or so longer than the body 

 in the c? , nearly as long as the body in the $ ; sparsely 

 fringed with longish hairs beneath ; first joint stout, strongly 

 and densely punctured, second to fifth or sixth sparsely punc- 

 tate and subnitid, the succeeding joints covered with a very short 

 fine pubescence. Prothorax of <5 widest just before the middle, 

 narrowed a little more towards the base than in front; the 

 surface opaque, evenly convex, not very densely covered with 

 rather small asperate punctures, each of which bears a short, pale, 

 curved seta ; a median line on posterior half subnitid ; prothorax 

 of $ widest at the middle, the surface more densely asperate 

 and setose ; with two very small tubercles on the disc a little 

 before the middle. Elytra very densely rugulose-punctate, 

 appearing as if granulated ; very slightly nitid ; a little flattened 



