LISSADORETUS. 293 



with the primary costae fairly well marked, but not elevated. 

 The pygidium is rather finely and closely punctured, and the 

 metasternum scantily. 



d 1 , The club of the antenna is very long. 



$ . Broader and more oval in shape ; the eyes are smaller and 

 less prominent, and the front tibia is shorter and broader, with 

 stronger teeth. 



Length, 8 mm.; breadth, 4 mm. 



MABEAS : Madura, Trichinopoli, Pondicherry, Madras. 



Type in Dr. Ohaus' collection ; co-type in the British Museum. 



Genus LISSADORETUS. 



TYPE, Lissadoretus pallidus, sp. nov. 



Range. Punjab. 



Body rather parallel-sided but not long, with the upper surface 

 shining and clothed only with minute and scanty, hardly per- 

 ceptible hairs, the lower surface rather more closely hairy. Head 

 rather broad, but with the eyes far apart and not large in propor- 

 tion. Clypeus broad and subrectangular, the margin rounded, but 

 not uniformly, with an indication of front angles. Labrum with 

 a broad, flat, smooth and shining process, overlapping the mentum 

 at the end, where it is rounded and not truncate. Mentum very 

 broad, with the front edge strongly chitinised and bluntly bidentate 

 on each side, broadly emarginate in the middle ; the palpi placed 

 far apart. Maxilla armed with three short terminal teeth bent 

 at right angles ; palpus short, with a large pear-shaped terminal 

 joint. Mandible strong, blunt and rounded at the extremity. 

 Antenna 10-jointed, but the seventh joint almost invisible. 

 Prosternal process short and rounded. Legs fairly slender ; 

 front tibia armed with three strong teeth, hind tibia broadest at 

 the extremity. 



3 . More elongate, with the eyes larger and more prominent, 

 the antenna? rather long, and the longer front and middle claws 

 minutely cleft. 



$ . Broad and convex, with the eyes not at all prominent, the 

 antennae short and all the claws simple. 



This genus has a distinctive appearance due especially to the 

 remoteness of the eyes, which are rather small relatively to the 

 width of the head. The process of the labrum has also a peculiar 

 form, being quite smooth, flat and shining, without any teeth at 

 the margins and rounded at the end. Another unique peculiarity 

 is found in the claws, which are all undivided in the female only. 



314. Lissadoretus pallidus, sp. nov. 



Pale yellow, with the tarsi and the extreme edges of the head, 

 pronotum and elytra brown. 



The body is rather smooth and shining, only clothed on its 

 upper surface with very scanty and inconspicuous minute white 



