Malacoderm Genera Prionocerus and Idgia. 3.57 



Tliere are five specimens of this species in tl»e Museum, 

 ill addition to the Fabrician type. It is not unlike the 

 K. African /. dimidiata, Gei"st., but more sparsely pilose, the 

 head, palpi, antennie, lej^s (the bases of the femora excepted), 

 and nearly tiie apical third of the elytra, black, the rest of 

 the body fulvous ; the antenme, ^ ? , moderately lon^, 

 feebly serrate, the eleventh joint curved, concave «ithin, as 

 long as 1) anil 10 uniteil ; the hil)rum lar<;p, trapezoidal ; the 

 eyes large, somewhat narrowly separated in the two sexes. 

 The geniial armature figured is taken from the Hapulahani 



40. Idyia assiniilis. 



Trliphorns ag.vi)iili.<s, Hope, Zool. Mi.^c. 1831, p. 20. 

 Dipiosopns nie/anitnis, Muls. Mem. Acad. Lyon, i. p. 210 (ISol). 

 Lli/ia melanura, Bourg. Ann. Soc. Eiit. Help, xxxvi. p. lJo7 (1892) ; 

 (iorli. op. cit. xxxix. p. 319 (1895) (nee Kollar and Redt.). 



" Luteiis, untennis flavis elytroruraque a])ioibus tiij>ri8. T. melanuro, 

 Fabr., proximus. Long. lin. 5, lat. 1]." [i/o^>^.] 



Elongate, narrow, moderately shining, finely pubescent, 

 and sparsely nigro-setose ; testaceous, the head (the labrum 

 and anterior portion of the epistoma excepted), a patch at 

 the apex of the elytra, the outer halves of the femora, and 

 usually the tibiie and tarsi in great part, piceous or black, 

 the antennffi (joint 11 excepted) more or less infuscate 

 towards the apex. Head moderately large, not much pro- 

 duced in rrf)nt, the labrum transverse, trapezoidal, concave ; 

 antennie in (^ long and slender, shorter in ? ; eyes large 

 and almost contiguous in J , well separated in ? ; apical 

 joint of maxillary palpi elongate. Prothorax slightly longer 

 than broad, narrow, sinuate at tiie sides posteriorly. Elytra 

 long, subparallel, densely, rugulosely punctate. 



(^ . Anterior tarsal joints 1-3 with a comb along their 

 inner edge; terminal dorsal segment entire. Genital arma- 

 ture (PI. XII. fig. 31-): lateral lobes moderately long; median 

 lobe stout, abruptly acuminate and slightly curved at tip. 



Length (excl. head) 9-10, breadth 2^-3 ram. (cJ ? .) 



Hah. India, Nepal (Mus. Brit., Mu.<!. Oxon. : (^ ^ ), W. 

 A 1 mora (//. G. Champion: ^). 



Ten specimens seen from Northern India, including the 

 types from the Ilardwicke collection in the British Museum. 

 Various others from Helgaura and Madura {Andrtwes cn/l.) 

 and IJhotan {Mus. Oxon.), and Pauugde in Burma {Mus. 

 Brit.), are a little less elongate ; but the genital armature 

 of a (^ from Helgaum being very similar (except that the 



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