Mr. II. E. Andrcwcs on ()rt'ent,il C.irabida?, lt;3 



much hollowed out beneath, especially near hind angles, 

 liase of ventral segments strongly crenulate, as in some species 

 of Craspedop/iorus. 



In otiier respects this genus agrees with Codes, though its 

 very small size, minute head, and chestnut colour give it a 

 very distinct facies of its own. 



Miltodes r/ranuin, sp. n. 



Length 325 mm. ; uidth Ifi mm. 



Chestnut-brown, margin of elytra a little darker; antennae, 

 l)ali)i, and legs more or less testaceous. Surface smooth, 

 moderately shining, shagreened, and microscopically punctate. 



//earf extremely small (0*5 mm. wide), convex, clypeus with 

 a seta on eaeli side near front angle, suture very faint, 

 with three or four ill-defined punctures along it, eyes rather 

 large and prominent, antennae reaching basal fourth of elytra. 

 Proihorox moderately convex, three times as wide as head, 

 and two-thirds as wide again as long, widest at base, strongly 

 contracted to apex, base widely arcuate (convexity forwards), 

 apex slightly emarginate, sides finely bordered and evenly 

 rounded, hind angles a little less than right, but with the point 

 rounded olf ; median line aud hind transverse impression 

 just visible, surface otherwise smooth and even. Elytra 

 moderately convex, a shade narrower than prothorax, into 

 which the base fits almost exactly, half as lung again as wide, 

 sides parallel, base finely bordered from shoulder to stria 3 ; 

 striui moderately impressed and finely punctate, none of them 

 quite reaching either base or apex, or joining the adjacent 

 strire, scutellary striole short, stria 1 hardly reaching forward 

 beyond its extremity, a large unibilicate pore at base of stria 

 2, intervals almost fiat, 3 without setil'erous pores. I'ro- 

 sternal jjrocess finely bordered and rounded at apex ; 

 metepislerna longer than wide ; ventral surl'ace strigose, 

 chieHy in a longitudinal direction, segment 1 with a trans- 

 verse sulcus. Legs slender and elongate. 



I do not know of any species among the Oodini with wliich 

 I can usefully compare this, but it can hardly be confu.scd 

 with any other Eastern 8j)ecies at pnsent described. At the 

 first glance it suggests one of the suuiller species of the genus 

 Alj)hitobius (Tenebrionidic), but the resemblance is, of course, 

 only a superficial one. 



Centkal Provinces: Nagpur (/:. A. D'Al/icii), 1 ex., ? , 

 • under weeds." 



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