CoUoptcra from the Indian Empire. 359 



Westwood lias mentioned an Indian Ockodceus to winch 

 the MS. name of 0. indianus was given by Reichc, but 

 which the former did not consider distinct from 0. chryso- 

 vielinns. This is probably one or other of the two species 

 here described. 



Hybosoridae. 

 Phceochroops t'ndicus, sp. n. 



Pyriformis, fuscus, undicjue loiige rufo-hirtus, capite prothoracequo 

 deusissime punctatis, illo an^stato, margine rcgulariter arcuato ; 

 prothorace parvo, transvereo, lateribus elev.atis, dcnticulatis, 

 rcgulariter arcuatis, atigulis anticis productis, posticis fere rectis ; 

 scutello parvo, angusto ; elytris vaJde convexis, postice fortiter 

 ampliatis, dense variolose punctatis, costis tribus modice distinctis; 

 corpore subtus subtiliter rugose, metasterni medio pedibusque 

 politis ; tibiis anticis extus denticulatis, dentibus tribus validis 

 rectis, posticis longe ciliatis, singulo extus medio minute carinato. 



Long. 11 -.5 mm. 



Hab. S. India, Nilgiri Hills, Anamalai Hills. 



Three specimens have been found by Mr. H. L. Andrewes. 

 They are dark olive-brown, clothed all over with long tawny 

 liairs. The head and prothorax are exceedingly densely, 

 and the elytra closely, covered with circular pits. The lower 

 surface is finely rugose, with the middle of the metasternum 

 alone smooth and shining. The labrum is very prominent, 

 quadrate, and coarsely punctured and the clypeua parabolic. 

 The pronotum is very narrow in front and rather broader 

 behind, with the lateral margins raised, denticulate, and gently 

 and uniformly curved, and the }X)sterior angles right angles. 

 The elytra are regularly ampliated from the shoulders and 

 have each three feebly raised costse. 



The genus Phceochroops^ with two others, Phceochridhis 

 and Pantolasius, have been placed by their authors, Candeze 

 and Lansberge, amongst the Trogidae, and excluded from the 

 Hybosoridse by the presence of five ventral segments only. 

 These forms, however, have certainly a much closer relation- 

 ship to HyhosoruSf Chcetodus, &c., than to Trox and appear to 

 me to exhibit no diflference of any consequence in the abdomen. 

 A sixth segment is always visible laterally, although partially 

 liidden beneath the hind coxae, and Lacordaire has observed 

 that this is sometimes the case in Trox itself. The form of 

 the antennae and labrum, however, is very different to that 

 occurring in Trox, and if it is considered desirable to retain 

 both families I think the Trogidae should be restricted by 

 removing the genera Liparochrus and Anaides to the 

 Hybosoridaj, with which they have most in common. 



