1889.] COLEOPTERA OF THE FAMILY TELEPHORID&. 99 
One specimen. 
Var.? Body beneath, coxze, trochanters, and base of the thighs 
yellow. 
Hab. Khasia Hills. One specimen. 
I cannot from the single specimens before me determine whether 
these are distinct species, the structure appears to be the same in both. 
y 7. TELEPHORUS SEMIUSTUS, sp. nov. 
Nigro-subcinereus ; capitis fronte, antennarum articulo primo, pro- 
thorace femoribusque anticis et intermediis basi flavis ; elytris 
sordide lividis, pubescentibus, basi nitidis nigro-plumbeis. 
Long. 9-10 millim. 
Hab. India: Assam, Sibsaugor (Major Godwin-Austen). 
A feebly built, soft-looking species, which will be easily recognized 
by its peculiar coloration. The head is black and shining, the front 
from the insertion of the antennz, and underside excepting the 
cheeks, yellow; the antennee ashy grey, yellowish at the base, the 
palpi fuscous. The thorax is suborbiculate, wider than long, 
impunctate and shining, the lateral margins and the base gently 
reflexed. The elytra appear to be very soft in texture, being 
shrivelled in all the specimens ; they are granulosely-subrugose, of a 
pale sordid yellow, indeterminately black at the base, the rather 
strongly raised shoulders being shining black. ‘The body is ashy 
grey, the abdomen nearly black. Legs black, the front coxze and 
femora excepting at their tips, and the middle femora at the base 
for half the length, and their coxze internally, yellow. 
Three specimens in my own collection, and one in the Calcutta 
Museum. 
8. TELEPHORUS STYGIANUS, Sp. Nov. 
Ater, nitidus; elytris subrugulosis, sutura margineque laterali 
tenuissime albis; abdominis segmentis singulis albo-marginatis. 
Long. 73 millim. ¢ 2. 
Mas. Segmentis tribus ultimis ventralibus divisis et imbricatis, 
prothoracis margine laterali infra medium plicato. 
Fem. Segmento sexto ventrali bifossulato et levigato. 
Hab. South India (Mus. Calcutta), Mt. Kodeicanel (J. Castets). 
The antennz are rather long in the male, being about the length 
of the body, those of the female are shorter. The mandibles are 
pitchy red. The thorax about as long as wide, none of the angles 
distinct, but the margin is raised and a little thickened at the front, 
plicate a little below the middle of the side, forming in the male a 
narrownotch, below which the margin is bidentate ; but this structure 
is not apparent in one of the two specimens of that sex nor in the 
female. The apical ventral plates of the male have their two halves 
somewhat inclined so as to form a V, and are divided in the middle 
much as in the Central-American genus Discodon, Gorh. It is 
probable that a new genus will have to be proposed for the present 
insect and its allies in the east. 
