310 CEliAHBTCID.E. 



apical margin ; the apices truncate and bispinose. Body beneath 

 rather faintly covered with greyish -white silky pubescence, which 

 becomes somewhat denser on the episterna of the mesothorax. 

 Femora gradually and not strongly clavate, distinctly but not 

 very closely punctured : the hind pair not extended to the apex of 

 the elytra. 



Length 8-9 ; breacWi 2| mm. 



Hob. Andaman Islands. 



Genus EICON. 



Eicon, Pascoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 522 ; Lacord. Gen. Coleopt. 

 viii, p. 536 (1869). 



Type, B. sanguineum, Pasc., a species from Penang. 



Range. Southern India and the Malay Peninsula. 



Very closely allied to Epipedocera, Chevr., of which it might be 

 regarded as a subgenus differentiated by the following characters : 

 Prothorax longer than broad, not strongly rounded at the sides ; 

 elytra furnished each with a somewhat feebly raised lateral carina ; 

 femora less strongly thickened, the hind pair not reaching to the 

 apex of the elytra. 



Two species only are known one from Peuang, the other from 

 Canara ; the latter is here described for the first time. Although 

 so closely related to Epipedocera, the genus was placed far from 

 it by Lacordaire and in a different group. 



382. Eicon bimaculatnm, S p. n. 



Blood-red in colour and dull ; elytra with a dark brown area 

 that occupies about the middle third part, marked each at the 

 middle with a raised and polished ivory -yellow spot; the scutellum 

 and some spots at the sides of the thorax and first two abdominal 

 segments densely covered with silky-white pubescence. Antennae 

 reach to the middle of the elytra ; first joint rugulose-punctate, 

 last six joints dilated and, except the last, acutely angulate in front 

 at the apex. Prothorax about one-fourth longer than broad, 

 rounded a little at the sides, narrowed slightly in front and more 

 strongly towards the base, closely covered with rather shallow 

 punctures. Elytra closely and strongly punctured and, on the 

 posterior part, sparsely granulated ; each elytron narrowly emar- 

 ginate and bispinose at the apex, furnished along each side with a 

 somewhat sinuous carina which does not extend to the base or 

 apex ; the lateral margins very finely serrulate. Body beneath 

 coloured like the upperside ; the sterna, and the middle of the 

 first two abdominal segments more or less faintly, clothed with 

 greyish-white pubescence. Femora gradually 'clavate ; densely 

 and rather coarsely punctate ; the hind pair not extended to the 

 apex of the elytra. 



Length 8-10 ; breadth 2 J-3 mm. 



Hab. Canara: Katgal (T. R. D. Bell). 



