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curved, the front angles right angles and the hind angles very 

 obtuse. The scutellum is well punctured, and the elytra are 

 rather finely and distinctly punctured, with somewhat feebly 

 indicated costae. The pygidium is rather smooth and shining, 

 with a clothing of erect but not long hair. The front tibia is 

 fairly broad and armed with three very sharp teeth. 



Length, 11 mm.; breadth, 5 mm. 



MADRAS : Malabar. 



1 have seen only a single male specimen and this is in the 

 British Museum. 



Genus SCHIZADOKETUS, nov. 

 TYPE, Scliizadoretus rufescens, sp. n. 



Rawje. Bengal. 



Clypeus very small, nearly semicircular in shape, with the 

 margin strongly reflexed and a little excised in the middle, its 

 vertical face long, the length nearly half its breadth. Labrum 

 large, rather rectangular, gently emarginate at the front margin, 

 without a median process. Mandibles short and not produced at 

 the apex. Maxilla armed with four very sharp slender teeth, 



Fig. 61. Mouth-parts of bchizadoretus rufescens. , inaudible ; />, maxilla; 

 c, mentum ; d, clypeus and labrum (anterior lace). 



three of them terminal ; palpi slender, the last joint oval. 

 Mentum large, produced and sharply bin'd at the end, with the 

 points visible from above ; palpi very short and thick, with the 

 terminal joint subglobular. Antennae 10-jointed, with the club 

 rather long. Eyes prominent. Legs moderately slender, the 

 front tibia armed with three very strong teeth, the longer front 

 and middle claws cleft very minutely in both sexes. 

 Only one species is known at present. 



305. Schizadoretus rufescens, sp. nov. 



Pale ferrugineous red, with the head (except the clypeus) black 

 and the femora pale. 



