Species of Indian Tenebrionidse. 57 



or Cwlocnemodes, but its general facies suggests a close 

 relationship with Blaps indicola, Bates, though, without 

 some knowledge of the male characters, it is impossible to 

 speak with certainty. The evenly rounded and narrowly 

 recurved margins of the thorax, the elongate-ovate form of 

 the elytra, with the sides evenly rounded from base almost to 

 apex (which, though acute, is not at all caudate), give the 

 insect a very distinctive appearance. The lateral carina of 

 the elytra is completely marginal. 



Setenis semiopaca. 



Nigra aut picea, subopaca, sutura elypeali subobsoleta, prothorace 

 post apicem latiori, angulis anticis rotundatis, pcmticis acutis fere 

 rectis, dorso sat regulariter punctato, foveis et linea media obso- 

 letis ; elytris postice ampliatis sat subtiliter punctato-striatis, 

 intervallis planis, parte dorsali subuitida, postice et ad lateres 

 per granulos minutos opacis ; tibiis anticis et mediis maris leviter 

 arcuatis, ferninse rectis. 



Long. 20-25 mm. 



Hah. Sylhet (Brit. Mus.) ; Subatach, Jaunsaur, N.W. 

 Himalaya (Stebbing). 



This species must be very close to S. parvicollis, Fairm., 

 though the thorax is but feebly transverse and has its greatest 

 widtli shortly before the apex. The disc is convex, with a 

 fairly dense and even puncturation and but faint traces of a 

 median furrow and lateral fovea?. The elytral striae are very 

 slightly impressed and finely punctate, the interstices flat. 

 The dorsal area is moderately shining, but the sides and 

 posterior declivity are rendered opaque by the presence of 

 minute granules. The femora are unarmed, the anterior and 

 middle tibiae of the male slightly curved, the apex clothed 

 within with a short golden pubescence. 



Setenis semivalga. 



Oblonga, nigra, seminitida, sutura elypeali distincta ; antennis longi- 

 usculis, articulis omnibus elongatis ; prothorace trunsverso, angu- 

 lis anticis rotundatis, posticis acute rectis, dorso sat parce punctu- 

 lato, medio sat distincte sulcato utrinque leviter foveolato ; elytris 

 punctato-striatis, intervallis convexis ; tibiis anticis maris medio 

 incrassatis, subdentatis, arcuatis, apice auro-pubescentibus, ceteris 

 et feminaa omnibus leviter sinuatis. 



Long. 25-27 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon (Bates Coll.) ; Kudrai, Central Trov. (Stcb- 

 biny) . 



