370 BIr. B. P. Uvaiov on 



but in the collection before me now there are two species 

 which undoubtedly belong to the-geuus Aulacoboturus, Bol., 

 known hitherto from India only ; both these species are 

 new and described below. 



1. Pseudoarcyptera carvalhoi, Bol. 



The species was described by I. Bolivar from Loureneo 

 MarqufcZj and a single male in the British Museum from the 

 same locality agrees perfectly with the description. The 

 venation of the elytra in this species is very much like that 

 in Prostethophyma cephalica, Bol. (see fig. 1, A). 



2. Aulacubothrus africanus, sp. n. 



^ . Smaller, but less slender, than any of the known 

 Indian representatives of the genus. Antennae a little 

 longer than the head and pronotum together. Head 

 strongly recliuate ; frontal ridge in profile perfectly straight, 

 forming a rounded acute angle with the fastigium, distinctly 

 sulcate and rugosely punctured throughout ; its margins 

 raised, not punctured, parallel, slightly convergent at the 

 fastigium. Fastigium of the vertex rotundo-pentagonal, 

 distinctly broader than long ; its surface slightly concave ; 

 median keel low, rather thick, but irregular, interrupted in 

 the middle of the fastigium, prolonged all across the occiput; 

 lateral occipital keels distinct, but very irregular, not nearly 

 reaching the pronotum ; temporal foveolse very distinct, 

 much longer than broad, parallel, with the apex obliquely 

 rounded. Pronotum rather compressed laterally, but with- 

 out a constriction; its disc smooth, but dull in the prozona, 

 and strongly rugosely punctured in the metazona, median 

 keel running throughout the pronotum, distinctly raised, 

 shining, cut just behind its middle by the third sulcus ; 

 lateral keels rather feeble and irregular, slightly convex and 

 feebly convergent between the fore margin and the first 

 sulcus, scarcely perceptible, subparallel between the first 

 and second sulci, distinctly convex and not strongly 

 divergent behind the latter, not reaching the hind margin ; 

 fore margin of the pronotum rounded ; hind angle straight ; 

 lateral lobes very coarsely punctured, less so in the middle 

 where the punctures are not dense, and two elongate spots 

 near the upper margin are not punctured at all, smooth ; 

 lower margin of the lobes obtusely angulate behind its 

 middle; their hind angle straight, rounded; the fore angle 

 obtuse, rounded. Mesopleurie and metapleurse very coarsely 



