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pointed ; antennae filiform, the joints short, somewhat triangularly 

 widened, the third and fourth rather longer. Thorax scarcely 

 broader than long, the sides widened near middle into a more or 

 less produced tubercle, the base with transverse sulcus. Elytra 

 wider at base than the thorax, irregularly and closely punctured, 

 rather convex, parallel, the apex rounded. Femora rather strongly 

 incrassate, tarsi short, claws appendiculate ; anterior coxae nearly 

 contiguous, intermediate coxae slightly separated. First ventral 

 segment twice the length of second. 



Formerly placed in the Megalopinoe, with which it has nothing 

 in common, as pointed out by Weise. Its true place is near 

 Zeugopliora, from which it differs but little. 



16. Pedrillia longicornis, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) ii, 1864, p. 280. 



Fulvous above, black beneath ; antennae long and slender; head 

 impunctate ; thorax finely and remotely punctured, the sides 

 tuberculate ; elytra more strongly and closely punctured, clothed 

 with long fulvous pubescence. 



Head broad, entirely impunctate ; mandibles robust, fulvous, the 

 tips black ; eyes deeply notched ; antennae extending to the middle 

 of the elytra, black, the first joint fulvous, the fourth the longest, 

 following joints subquadrately widened, slightly longer than broad. 

 Thorax half as long as broad, strongly and abruptly constricted 

 at the base, the anterior portion produced into a broad tubercle at 

 the sides ; the surface finely and remotely punctured, reddish - 

 fulvous, shining, clothed with long fulvous hairs. Elytra rather 

 long, widened and thickened posteriorly but very gradually, the 

 puncturation much more distinct and close than that of the thorax, 

 the interstices furnished with long fulvous hairs. Beneath and 

 the legs black or piceous. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hub. India. 



The antennae in this species are, as the name implies, propor- 

 tionately long, and the tubercle at the sides of the thorax is blunt 

 and broad ; specimens occur in which the entire head and thorax 

 are black. 



17. Pedrillia murrayi, Clark, App. Cat. Phytoph. 1866, p. 87. 

 Zeugophora apicalis, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. xxxix, 1866, p. 406. 



Very similar to P. longicornis, but clearly differentiated by the 

 black band at the apex of the elytra, the upper edge of which is 

 concave ; another difference is the greater amount ot constriction 

 of the thorax in P. murrayi, this is deeper and more marked than 

 in the continental Indian species ; whether the antennae likewise 

 differ I am not able to say, since in all the specimens before me 

 only two or three joints are present, the rest being broken off. 



Length 4 mm. 



Nab. Ceylon. Type in Brit. Mus., also obtained by Doherty. 



