468 Ci'. D. Sharp on Lamellicorn 



not ; if the female is among them it is extremely like tlie 

 male externally. , ,.,, 



May be placed early in the genus, near 11. paraleLa. _ ihe 

 collection in the British Museum includes a very o d specimen 

 labelled '^ montana, Reiche, Ghauts," which I believe is this 



'^ Ootacamund [C.A. Barher, no. 202 a). In the collections 

 of the Cambridge Museum, British Museum, and D. bliarp. 



llolotrichi'a conferla, sp. u. 



Tcstacea, plus minusve piceo-ohscurata, deusisaime punctata, opaxia, 

 pectore densius villoso ; vertice alte carinato, carina emargmata ; 

 clypeo brevissimo, dense punctato, medio cmarginato ; elytris 

 ecostatis. 

 Long. 16-18 mm. 



Mentum in front on each side with a series oflong appressed 

 golden hairs covering its surface. Labrum very deeply 

 emarginate. Antenna; 9-jointed, joints 3 and 4 rather short, 

 sharply divided. Clypeus very short and broad, greatly 

 refiexed in front, and broadly but not deeply emarginate 

 Vertex elevated to form a very strong carina, slightly notched 

 in the middles Thorax with the hind angles extremely 

 obtuse the side margin explanate at the front angles, the 

 anterior margin thick, sharply elevated, so as to have a 

 perpendicular face, adapted to the carina of the vertex ; the 

 uhole surface extremely densely punctate. Scutellum not 

 covered by the hair of the thorax, punctate. Elytra very 

 densely punctate, with a longitudinal impression near the 

 suture, abbreviated in front, and limiting a broad, more 

 coarsely and less densely punctate space. Pygidium broad, 

 rather feebly punctate. Abdominal sutures less effaced than 

 usual. Breast densely clothed with tawny pubescence. 

 Club of antenna short in the female, moderately long in the 



ITf^ale. ^^ . . rni • n 



This may be placed near H. sinensis, ihere is a very old 

 specimen in the British Museum labelled ^' Madras." _ 



Ootacamund {G. A. Barber, no. 202 b). In the collections 

 o£ the Cambridge Museum, British Museum, and D. bharp. 



Melaserica, Brenske. 



Melaserica, Brenske, Berlin, ent, Zeitschr. xlii. 1897, p. 421. 



This genus has been recently characterized by Herr Brenske 

 and is based on two male specimens found in Tibet at Ta- 

 tsien-lu. Brenske's description is necessarily very brief, and 



