402 t)r. G. A. K. Maisliall on 



apical margin truncate dorsallj ; the upper surface moderately 

 convex, with well-marked carinate reticulations, except on 

 the apical collar, a broad shallow central furrow from the 

 collar to beyond the middle, containing a deep rounded fovea 

 in front and changing near the base into a low carina that 

 runs on to the spine. Elytra about as long as their greatest 

 breadth, the strite very broad, with deep separated punctures 

 and quite bare, the intervals subcarinate, each with a row of 

 spaced setigerous granules. Legs piceous, with the tarsi 

 paler, clothed with separaterl, long, narrow, pale scales ; the 

 femora with a minute tooth, wiiich is situated much lower 

 down than usual, being about in the middle of the limb and 

 ])arrly concealed by scales ; the dorsal apical fringe of the 

 hind tibipe hardly as long as the first tarsal joint. Sternum 

 with the front coxae widely separated for the reception of the 

 rostrum ; the mesosternum broadly and deeply excavated, 

 almost horizontal in the middle ; the metasternum with a 

 l)road central furrow throughout, which is not enclosed 

 behind. 



Length 1?, breadth 1-^q mm. 



Burma: Tavoy, Tenasserim {W. Doherty). 



Very similar to M. carinatus, Fst., in wliich the thorax 

 is of quite the same type and the sculpturing of the elytra is 

 similar ; but that species differs markedly in its metasternum, 

 which has a deep overhanging excavation in its anterior part 

 only, the femora have no tooth, there is uo carina on the 

 head, etc. 



Mecysmoderes pectinipes, sp. n. 



Colour black, variegated with grey and brown setae and 

 scales ; the prothorax clothed above with recumbent setaa 

 only, the brown ones being more numerous on the disk ; the 

 elytra with a sutural strij)e of dense whitish scales extending 

 for more than one-third of the suture, the remaining intervals 

 bearing linear scales (not less than two, and more often throe 

 deep), wliich are grey at the base and mostly dark brown 

 elsewhere, variegated here and there with grey scales ; the 

 lower surface rather densely clothed with broad whitish 

 scales. Immature S|)ecimens are sometimes testaceous, with 

 the thoracic carina and spine black; and various intergrades 

 occur between this and the black mature form. 



Head with coarse close confluent punctation, the central 

 carina indistinct or absent, the forehead not at all impressed. 

 Rostrum black, with the apex reddish ; as long as the front 



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