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Dull black, with the following markings formed of pale 

 ochreous scales : — two stripes in the rostral furrows, a trans- 

 verse band on the vertex of the head, a curved lateral stripe 

 on each side of the thorax, and numerous irreguhir blotches 

 on the elytra, many of them often coalescing to form an 

 uneven humeral and a postmedian lateral patch. 



Head closely and finely punctate, the rostral carina3 con- 

 tinued on to the front. Rostrum with three carince, end ).siiig 

 two very broad and deeep furrows, which extend from the 

 insertion of the antennai to the front of the head ; the central 

 carina equally narrow throughout; the apical portion of tlie 

 rostrum not impressed or carinate. Anteyince slender, with 

 only joint 7 of the funicle attached to the club, joint 

 distinctly narrowed towards the base, joint 2 half as long 

 again as joint 1. Prothoraw slightly longer than its basal 

 width, parallel-sided from the base to two-tiiirds of its lengtJi, 

 then abruptly constricted, the basal and apical margins 

 rounded, the ocular lobes well developed; the upper surfaco 

 dull, shagreened, with moderately close shallow punctation, a 

 large deep fovea on each side behind the middle and a shallow 

 impression in the centre of the base ; the irregular lateral 

 band of scaling passes through the deep fovea and includes 

 anteriorly a small bare sinning spot ; prosternum clothed 

 with dense scaling. Elytra broadly ovate, with regular 

 narrow punctured striee, the intervals finely shagreened, 

 slightly convex and of about equal width on tlie disk, with a 

 few small scattered granules near the base ; scales feathery, 

 each scale bearing a fringe of long bristles. Legs black, the 

 femora for the most part bare and shining, but with some 

 thin scaling about the base ; the tibise and tarsi clothed with 

 long dense tawaiy hairs ; the tarsi comparatively short, 

 joint 3 being evidently shorter than 2. Venter with dense 

 scaling similar to that of the elytra ; segments 2-4 each with 

 a broad bare shining band occupying the apical half of the 

 segment, but not reaching the sides ; segment 1 with a 

 deeper band, which is produced in the centre towards the 

 base; segment 5 with only a small central bare patch. 



Long. 23-27, lat. 6^-9 mm. 



Baluchistan : Quetta and Nuskki district. 



Tt/pes, S ? 5 i" the British Museum ; cotypes in the 

 Calcutta Museum. 



The only two other known species of Epilectm, Fst. 

 (D. e. Z. 1904, p. 208) are E. lehmanni, M^n. (Turkestan), 

 and E. gigas, Marseul (Algeria), and they may both be 

 distinguished from E. haluchicus (apart from their very 

 different upperside colouring) by the absence of the thoracic 



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