from the Indian Region. 383 



protliorax. Legs subequal to one another in lenf^th. Inter- 

 mediate tibite with their outer margin entire. Chiws of the 

 tarsi broadly divergent, but not strictly divaricate. Pro- 

 sternal process almost horizontal, being but feebly raised 

 towards the middle of its length ; it is very slightly widened 

 posteriorly and just at its hind extremity bears on each side 

 a very small process which does not reach to the free end of 

 the epimeron ; so that the anterior acetabula remain slightly 

 open behind. The mesosternum is gradually narrowed ])03- 

 teriorly, and bears a small but distinct tubercle. 



This genus must, in accordance with the system of 

 Lacordaire, be placed in the group of the Monohammides, 

 from all the other members of which it may be very readily 

 distinguished. 



Polytretus cribripennis, sp. n. (Pi. XIX. fig. 4.) 



Piceo-Jiiger ; antennis articulis tertio quartoque nigro-fimbriatis ; 

 prothorace nitido fere impunctato, disco inajijuali, postice tuberculo 

 medio paullo elevato et supra planato munito ; elytris fulvo-tes- 

 taceis, crebre foveato-puuctatis, utrisque lineis tribus — duabus 

 dorsalibus, tertia laterali — paullo elevatis. 



Long, ll'o, lat. 3*5 mm. 



Hab. Mungphu, in Sikkim {Atkinson Collection). 



Head, prothorax, body underneath, legs, and antennae 

 black, A\ith a slightly reddish tint at the margins of the pro- 

 thorax and of the abdominal segments. Tlie antennae are 

 dull in colour, being covered with a faint blackish pubescence ; 

 the third and fourth joints are thickly fringed with blackish 

 hairs on their outer and lower border throughout the greater 

 part of their length. The disk of the prothorax has on each 

 side, in front of the middle, a small convex polished area, 

 which is separated from its fellow by a median slightly 

 depressed area ; between the middle and the base there is a 

 median slightly raised area which is flattened and not very 

 smooth above, and which has a rounded and sharply-limited 

 posterior border. The elytra are very strongly and closely 

 punctured throughout, and are entirely of a fulvous-testaceous 

 colour ; they are rounded at the apex, and each bears three 

 slightly, and not very distinctly, raised lines — two dorsally 

 and one towards the side. 



Anamera fuIvescenSf sp. u. 



Fusca, supra pube fulvescente sat dense obtecta; elytris dense 

 punctatis, viridi-f useis, fulvo-pubescentibus ; corpore subtus fulvo- 

 cinereo-pubescente. 



Long. 23, lat. 8*5 mm. 



