Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse on Indian Coleoptera. 459 



is a shining, triangular, strongly-punctured patch ; the two 

 patches united by a tridentate shining band which borders the 

 base. On each side there are two spots, which are more 

 coarsely punctured than the rest of the surface. Elytra sub- 

 opaque, with some very delicate punctuation at the base ; 

 somewhat parallel, compressed laterally below the shoulders, 

 a little narrowed at the apex, the lateral margins narrowly 

 reflexed. 



Lamiidse. 



Morimus incequalis, n. sp. 



Fulvus, dorsaliter infuscatus, omnino pilosus ; capite postice maculis 

 quatuor nigris ; elytris basi depressis, medio bene convexis, ad 

 apicem declivis, angustatis, maculis quatuor fusco-velutinisnotatis. 



Long. 12 liu. 



Allied to M. monmoides, White (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1858, ii. p. 266, Leprodera) ^ but with the elytra more de- 

 pressed at the base, much more convex in the middle, more 

 declivous at the apex. The basal joint of the antennee has 

 on the inner side at the base an emargiuation ; and the upper 

 angle made by this emargiuation is slightly prominent in the 

 form of an obtuse tooth. This character is visible in M> 

 morimoides^ but in a much less marked degree. The anten- 

 nal tubercles are very prominent. On eacli side of the neck 

 are two black spots. The thorax is very roughly sculptured ; 

 the lateral spine is much stronger, more prominent, but less 

 acute than in M. lucjubris^ Fab. The elytra are less promi- 

 nent at the shoulders than in M. morimoides, but at the 

 middle they are more convex and broader; very coarsely 

 granular, or covered with obtuse tubercles, some of which 

 range themselves in two short lines at the base near the scu- 

 tellum ; each elytron has on the disk, some distance from the 

 base, an irregular, dark, velvety brown spot, and beyond the 

 middle a second, larger, triangular patch, which touches the 

 margin but does not reach the suture. The femora and all the 

 underside of the insect are more or less dotted with black. 

 The antennee of the male are rather longer than the whole 

 insect ; in the female they are shorter. 



Hob. Southern India, probably Coimbatoor. B.M. 



Two examples of this species were presented to this Museum 

 by M. J. Walhouse, Esq. 



Morimus plagiatus^ n. sp. 

 Niger, dense griseo-pilosus ; antennarum articulo basali ad basin 



