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other and better specimens which enable me to locate it in the 

 genus AcanihaspiS) from which by the short basal joint of the 

 antennae and the broadly sulcated posterior lobe of the pronotum 

 it appears somewhat divergent. In the former (antennal) cha- 

 racter, it is, however, allied to A. biguttula, Still (vol. ii, p. 272), 

 near which it may be placed and from the description of which it 

 differs by the annulated legs, different markings of the corium, 

 larger size, &c. I have now figured the species to prevent any 

 confusion. Mr. Maxwell Lefroy has sent me specimens from 

 Pusa, Bengal, which were " taken at light." 



Dr. Annandale has kindly let me see an immature 5 specimen 

 he described as Physorliynchus coproloyus. It apparently belongs 

 to the subfam. Acanthaspidinse, to the genus Acanthaspis, and 

 most probably represents A. megaspila, Walk. 



ACANTHASPIS sp. 



Physorhynchus coprologus, Annand. Mem. Asiat. Soc. Beng. i, p. 214, 

 pi. xi, f. 3 (1906). 



Body dull black, finely and obscurely pilose; antennae, rostrum, 

 tibiae, and tarsi ferruginous ; femora black ; head with the ante- 

 ocular part not or scarcely longer than the postocular ; antennae 

 with the first joint a little shorter than head ; rostrum with the 

 first aud second joints subequal in length ; pronotum with the 

 anterior section longer than the posterior ; anterior tibiae with an 

 apical spongy furrow. 



Fig. 111. Acanthaspis sp. 



Length 16 millim. 



Hab. S. India ; Eamzinad (Annandale). 



" A single specimen taken at Ramdmid in a manure-heap in a 

 garden." (Dr. Annandale.) 



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