380 Mr. C. J. Galian on new Lonyicorn Goleoptera 



Tlie colour Jind punctuation of the elytra in this species are 

 very suggestive of the South-African genus Ochimus. I am 

 not quite certain that the species is congeneric with Cleonice 

 vestita, Thorns. {=Seuthes seri'catus, Pasc), as I have no 

 example of the latter by me with which to compare it. 



Epepeotes andamanicusj sp. n. 



Niger, griseo tenuissime pubescens ; prothorace transverso, lateraliter 

 utrinque spiaoso, dorse medio leviter transversim rngosulo ; 

 elytris punctatis, punctis versus basin asperatis, apicibus sinuato- 

 truncatis. 



Long. 25 mm. 



Hab. Andaman Islands {Prof. Meldola and Atkinson Coll.). 



Black, with a faint slate-grey pubescence. Head and pro- 

 thorax almost impunctate ; the latter feebly wi'inkled over 

 the middle of the disk, armed with a sharp tubercle or spine 

 on the middle of each side. Elytra densely punctured, the 

 punctures being more closely crowded and asperate on the 

 basal portion, and becoming gradually smaller towards the 

 apex. 



This species has some resemblance to Paragnoma nigraj 

 Thorns., with which it was confounded in the collection of the 

 late Mr. E. Atkinson, but may be distinguished by the shorter 

 and more transverse prothorax and the lateral spines with 

 which it is armed. 



Epepeotes uncinatus, Gahan. 



A variety of this species, represented by a single female 

 specimen taken by Mr, Alexander Bell at Canara in South 

 India, differs from the described form in having the black 

 spots of the elytra much more elongated ; those along each 

 side of the suture especially, forming for some distance an 

 almost continuous vitta. This variety has a remarkable re- 

 semblance to Macrochenus tigrinus, Oliv., which occurs also 

 in South India as well as in Ceylon. An analogous case of 

 resemblance is furnished by Macrochenus hirmanuSj Thorns., 

 and Epepeotes guttatus, Gu<5r. 



Macrochenus Atkmsoni, sp. n. 



Niger ; capitis fronte, lateribus vittaque dorsali, vittis fcribus protho- 

 racis (una dorsah, una utrinque lateral!), scutello et maculis 

 irregularibus elytrorum fulvo-pubescentibus ; eorpore subtus 

 nigro, vitta utrinque abdominis et maculis thoracis fulvo-pubes- 

 centibus ; apicibus elytrorum sinuato-truncatis. ( J ) Prothorace 



