Ipidae and Platypodidce/row India and Burma. 451 



Head and prothorax almost black ; elytra translucid, but 

 darker towards the apex ; the front concave and the antennae 

 inserted in a line almost parallel with the upper edge of the 

 eyes; at the base of each antenna, on the inner side, arises 

 an oval excrescence, larger than the eyes themselves and 

 covered with deep punctures over the whole surface ; these 

 raised portions are continued, in a lesser decree, round the 

 lateral margins of the front, and, being of a paler colour than 

 the rest of the surface, give a very distinctive appearance to 

 the insect ; a median longitudinal line extends from the 

 epistoma nearly to the vertex, where it ends abruptly in a 

 single large puncture, other punctures occur on either side of 

 this line and of the median carina on the vertex; a small 

 bunch of bright yellow hair is placed at the centre of the 

 epistoma, and smaller ones at the apical frontal angles near 

 the insertion of the mandibles. The prothorax is oblong with 

 a very short basal median line, on each side of which are 

 eleven large pores, somewhat irregularly placed and each 

 provided with a single narrow process (or possibly a stout 

 hair) affixed just inside the posterior edge of the pore and 

 extending almost across to the anterior side ; the rest of the 

 surface of the prothorax is shagreened, with a few scattered 

 and shallow punctures; just behind the anterior lateral angles 

 the prothorax is deeply excised for the reception of the 

 femora. The elytra are very feebly lineate-punctate and 

 rounded apical ly, the interstices flat with indistinct single 

 rows of minute punctures ; there is considerable separation 

 of the elytra at the sutural base and the scutellum is large 

 and triangular. The anterior coxa?, are widely separated and 

 elongate, the femora very flat and broad, and darkened in 

 colour on the anterior edge, the tibice are deeply ridged 

 externally ; the first joint of the anterior tarsi is very hairy. 



In the female the insertion of the antennae is normal, the 

 frontal carina is very narrow and has a deep cavity on each 

 side just over the mouth, the rest of the front is coarsely 

 punctured. 



The prothorax is similar to that of the male, but the basal 

 pores are fewer In number, generally 3-5 on each side of 

 the median line : the elytra are pale basally, becoming- 

 darker on the apical half, and having the interstices more 

 convex than the males, the apex of each elytron is armed 

 with live blunt spines of almost equal Length, truncate and 

 furnished with two or three hairs at their extremities ; the 

 abdomen transversely convex with the last Begmenl deeply 

 concave, coarsely punctured, and sparsely covered with short 

 yellow hairs and having a median vertical carina on the 

 upper half. 



