MAEGITBS. 137 



Genus MARGITES. 

 Margites, Gahan, A. M. N. H. (6) vii, p. 26 (1891). 



Type, M. egemts, Pasc., a species from China. 



Range. India, Burma, China, West Africa, and East Africa 

 extending as far south as Natal. 



Head rather short ; eyes large, extended anteriorly past the 

 condyles of the antennae ; genae short. Antennae longer than the 

 body in the J , with the third and fourth joints thickened, especially 

 towards the apex ; a little shorter than the body in the $ ; joints 

 sixth to tenth compressed anteriorly and angulate at the apex. 

 Prothorax rounded or obtusely subangulate at the middle of each 

 side, narrowed at base and apex, not longer than its width across 

 the middle, usually corrugate above. Elytra rounded or sub- 

 truncate at the apex. Legs moderately long ; the femora fusiform- 

 cylindric, slightly compressed, not carinate ; the tibiae in some 

 forms finely carinate on each side near the ventral face ; first 

 joint of the hind tarsus shorter than the next two joints united. 

 Acetabula of front coxae rounded on the underside, closed poste- 

 riorly ; the intercoxal process more or less gradually sloped, dilated 

 towards the end. 



137. Margites exigUUS, Gahan (Pachydissus-Margites), Ann. Mus. 

 Civ. Gen. xxxiv, p. 10 (1894). 



Dark brown, the legs and antennae slightly reddish, the head 

 and prothorax nearly black, rather faintly covered with short grey 

 pubescence. Head densely and rather finely punctured, impressed 

 above with a feeble median line. Antennae a little longer than 

 the body in the <3 , shorter than the body in the $ ; third and 

 fourth joints slightly thickened towards 

 the apex ; the third distinctly longer than 

 the fourth, but scarcely longer than the 

 fifth. Prothorax marked with a trans- 

 verse or slightly bisinuate groove near 

 the apex, and two grooves near the 

 base ; obtusely subangulate at the middle 

 and feebly protuberant on each side just 

 behind the anterior groove ; the dorsal 

 surface between the apical and basal grooves 

 Fig. 54, Margites ^ intricately but not very strongly rugose, 

 and very sparsely pubescent; the narrow 



transverse area between the apical groove and the front margin 

 densely and finely punctulate ; the sides densely punctulate and 

 rather closely covered with pubescence. Elytra rounded and 

 unarmed at the apex ; very densely and finely punctulate, some- 

 what less finely punctulate near the base. Femora finely and very 

 densely rugulose-punctate ; tibia? finely carinate along each side 

 close to the ventral face. 



Length, <$ type 11 ; $ 16 mm. 



Hab. Pegu: Tharawaddy ( Corbetf) ; Mandalay (Fea). 



