308 Dr. G. A. K. .^^ar3llall on 



granules ; the move conspicuous tubercles are situated as 

 t'oUows : — interval 2 witli a small one at the top of tlie de- 

 clivity, on interval 3 a snnvU one near the base and a verj 

 large one near the middle, on interval 5 a large one near the 

 base and a small one close behind it, on interval 7 a medium 

 one near the shoulder and anotlier about the middle, on 

 interval 9 a large one about the middle, and a large one just 

 behind the shoulder on interval 10 ; near the apex a trans- 

 verse row of tubercles on intervals «^— 7, those on 5 and 6 

 being elongate and the others short ; behind these is a broad 

 tiansverse impression. L^gs rather long, with scattered 

 recumbent short white setse ; the femora rugoselj punctured, 

 armed with a stout tooth, and transversely impressed exter- 

 nally near the apex ; thetibise rather slender, scarcely dilated 

 at the apex and there clothed externally with golden-brown 

 hairs, Avhicli form a dorsal fringe hardlj^ as long as the first 

 tarsal joint. S/enimn: the mesosternum sloping very steeply 

 and very sballowly impressed in the middle to receive the 

 apex of the rostrum, the metasternum not excavated, and the 

 space between the front coxae as wide as the rostrum. 



Length 2i-35, breadth 2-2^ mm. 



Assam: Patkai Hills {W. Doherty). 



A strikingly distinct species. 



Mecysmoderes nietasternallsy sp. n. 



($ . Colour varying from black to red-brown, variegated 

 with brown, yellowish and wiiite scales or setse ; the head 

 with fairl}' dense narrow wliite scales; the prothorax with the 

 entire sides and lower surface bearing close whitish scales 

 and setee, a triangular patch of white sette on the apical third 

 of the median area (its base on the front margin), and some 

 pale setae on each side of the basal third of the central carina, 

 thus leaving a broad, roughly X-shaped, bare discal patch ; 

 the elytra with a very long raised stripe of scales on each 

 side of the thoracic spine extending for more tlian half 

 their length, the basal two-thirds being very dark brown, the 

 apical third whitish ; these scales are very closely packed and 

 obliquely raised or almost erect ; a large lanceolate sub- 

 humeral patch of dense whitish scales (continuous with 

 similar scaling on the whole lower surface), the inner edge of 

 which reaches the sixth stria at the base and extends obliquely 

 backwards to nearly the middle of the lateral margin ; the 

 ajiical margin and the posterior half of the lateral margin 

 with an irregular edging of white scales, and a row of 

 yellowish scales on the basal fourth of the second interval; 



