DERE. 315 



Head densely punctate. Prothorax one-third longer than its width 



at the middle, broadly rounded at the sides, with a deep con- 

 striction and transverse groove a little 

 behind the apex, another constriction and 

 a sinuate groove near the base ; very 

 strongly but not densely punctured above 

 and on the sides, less strongly but more 

 densely punctured beneath, the anterior 

 groove and the part in front of it nearly 

 impunctate. Scutellum covered with 

 silvery grey pubescence. Elytra dis- 

 tinctly and somewhat thickly punctured, 

 except at the shoulders and apex ; each 

 narrowed to an obtuse point at the apex. 

 Breast, abdomen and legs glossy, almost 

 Fig. 103. Artimpaza bi- impunctate, furnished with a few sparse 

 color, Pasc., d . x \. longish hairs. First abdominal segment 

 of J slightly longer than the next two 



united. Hind femora extend a little past the apex of the 



elytra in the <$ . 

 Length 15 mm. 

 Hob. Andaman Islands. 



Genus DERE. 



Dere, White, Cat. Coleopt. B. M., Longic. ii, p. 248 (1855) ; Lacord. 

 Gen. Coleopt. ix, p. 100 (1869). 



Type, D. thoracica, White, a species from North China. 



Range. China, India, Ceylon and Borneo. Very closely allied 

 forms occur in Africa. 



Head slightly raised on each side between the antennae ; eyes 

 finely facetted, emarginate, the upper lobe short and narrow; 

 front oblique, flat. Antennae extended to the middle of the elytra 

 in the , to some distance beyond it in the <? ; third joint twice 

 as long as the fourth ; fourth slightly shorter than the fifth ; fifth 

 to tenth subequal, increasing very slightly in thickness, eleventh 

 obtuse at the apex. Prothorax as long as, or longer than, broad, 

 rounded at the sides, narrowed at the base and also but more 

 gradually in front. Elytra moderately long, flattened or slightly 

 depressed along the inner part of the disc, narrowed posteriorly, 

 each elytron emarginate and bidentat-e at the apex. Legs mode- 

 rately long ; femora clavate, the hind pair do not reach to the end 

 of the body; first joint of the hind tarsi almost as long as the next 

 two joints united. Acetabula of front and middle coxae closed ; 

 intercoxal process of prosternum rather narrow, dilated posteriorly, 

 that of the mesosternum moderately broad. Episterna of meta- 

 thorax with the inner border curved posteriorly, the apex pointed. 

 First abdominal segment almost as long as the second and third 

 united. 



