Mr. II. E. Amhowes on Oriental CurubiJaj. llJ'J 



M ASO R E I N I. 



^phnidins ruh'ulus, sp. ii. 



Length 40— l-T.') mm. ; width l'r)-2 mm. 



Head, sidt! and Iiiiid mar^Miis of prothorax, and iindnrsidc 

 piceons, middle of sterna and last ventral sej^incnt lij;liter ; 

 front of head, prothorax, and apical border of elytra dark 

 red ; elytra black ; palpi, antennae, and lej;s testaceous. 

 Surface cencrally rather dull, very finely shap;reened. 



Head convex and very smooth, clypeal suture slightly 

 curved, very faint, hardly visible at sides, eyes small and 

 prominent, antenn;e rather slender, reaching a little beyond 

 base of prothorax. Prothorax moderately convex, half as 

 wide again as head, and as much wider than long, base 

 truncate, finely bordered (except at middle), apex emarginate, 

 sides gently rounded and finely bordered, more contracted 

 in front than behind, ;i seta before middle and another at hind 

 angle, front angles slightly rounded but prominent, hind 

 angles obtuse, but not much rouiulcd ; median line short and 

 fine, impressions obsolete, the hind one just visible at middle, 

 surface smooth and even. Elytra only slightly convex, of 

 same width as in-othorax and about two-thirds as long again 

 as wide, base slightly emarginate, sides parallel, contracted 

 close to shoulder ; stria 1 sharply impressed (except close to 

 hase), the other strife just visible and extremely finely 

 punctate, intervals quite flat, 1 narrowing from base to apex, 

 3 without pores, marginal channel with few but large 

 setiferous pores, a long jiore on each side of scutellura ; sur- 

 face sericeous, but rather dull, quite without the mottled 

 appearance o( A. ade/ioiilct, Macl. Underside smooth and 

 shiny, hind tarsi very long and slender. 



A little smaller and narrower than A. simplex, Schm. Goeb,, 

 and otherwise coloured, the surface a little less dull. Head 

 and prothorax very similar in form, latter with sides rather 

 less rounded, elytra with more parallel sides, stria 1 more 

 deeply impressed, the other inner stri;e more effaced. 



Central I'kovincks: Nagjjur (K. A. iXAbreu), many ex. 

 Bombay : Khandesh (T. R. D. Bell) : Belganm (//. E'. An- 

 drewfis). Maouas : ^\ aAwra {C. tiomers-Smith). 



Some of the Nagpur specimens came to light. 1 took the 

 Belgaum specimens during the two rainy seasons of 188G-7, 

 nearly all near water. 



