94 On new Cohoptera from the Oriental Region. 



J , pronoto antico bicornuto, cornubus crassis parallelia fere 



conicalibus : 

 5 , prothoracis carinis duabus externis integris, simplice arcuatis, 



duabus internis brevibus posticis, duabus intermediis siiiuatis 



antice bifidis. 

 Long. 3*5— 4 mm. ; lat. max. l"5-2 mm. 



Hah. Upper Burma : Karen Hills, Asciuii Gliecu, 4200- 

 4500 feet alt. {L. Fea, April 1888). 



The type is in the British Museum, and there are other 

 specimens of the same series in the Genoa Museum. It is a 

 small, flattened, and rather smooth species, with the setae 

 restricted to the margins of the prothorax and the extremities 

 of the elytra. The clypeus is not deeply emarginate. The 

 pronotum is hollowed at the middle of the anterior half and 

 bears three pairs of sharp and gracefully curved carinas, 

 the two inner ones on each side being bisinuous and inter- 

 twined. The elytra, besides the carinate outer margins, bear 

 a pair of curved carinse, which are wide apart anteriorly and 

 almost meet at the apex. 



Rhyparus niJgirensis, sp. n. 



Rufo-piceus, baud nitidus, antennis flavibus, elongatus, parallelus ; 

 capita sat ]ato, undique punctato, medio bi-, postice quadri- 

 cristato, clypeo antice recto, angulis acuminatis ; prothorace 

 longitudine fere ad latitudinem sequali, dense punctato, lateribus 

 antice et medio fortiter dilatatis, carinis duabus medianis postice 

 sat late divergentibus, intermediis ante medium interruptis, 

 externis sinuatis ; elytris modice longis, singulo valde et acute 

 quadricostato, interstitiis utrinque grosse seriato-punctatis, costis 

 duabus dorsalibus postice abbreviatis, prominentibus ; pygidio 

 medio carinato ; metasterno medio fortiter sulcato, lateribus 

 grosse punctatis. 



Long. 4-5 mm. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills, 3500 feet alt. (//. L. A?idrewes). 



Mr. Andrewes found several specimens in July 1908, which 

 were attracted to light. 



This is the only species of this curious genus of Aphodiidae 

 so far known from India, and the smallest known to me in 

 the genus. It resembles R. gracilis, Arrow, but is less 

 narrow in shape, the anterior angles of the thorax are sharper, 

 and the second carina on each side extends a little beyond 

 the middle. The specimens are of a pitchy-red colour and 

 devoid of the earthy covering frequently present. 



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