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‘adpressed pubescence, which is thickest at the hind angles, these 
latter are acute but not projecting. The body beneath does not, so 
far as I can at present ascertain, present any difference from that of 
other Telephoridz, and is very simple, and I cannot at present find 
any indication of the sexual distinction. The Lycoceri are plain, if, 
indeed, they may not be termed ugly insects, of a pale brick-red or 
smoky-black colour, without any brilliancy or pattern to relieve 
them, and their integuments are so soft that all the examples I have 
yet seen are shrivelled and distorted. 
32. LycocERUS SERRICORNIS, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. 10.) 
Niger; corpore nitido, supra subsquamoso-pubescens ; capitis vertice, 
prothorace (vitta mediana parum distincta pretermissa) elytris- 
que rufis ; antennis serratis. 
Long. 15-17 millim. 
Hab. N.E. India (coll. Gorham); Assam, Sibsaugor (Mus. 
Caleutta) ; Burroi Dunseri valley (Major Godwin- Austen). 
Crown of the head ochraceous, clothed with golden hair. Antennze 
with the basal joint stout, pear-shaped, the thickest end towards the 
second joint, which is short and obconic, the third to the sixth joints 
a little longer than wide, the fourth and fifth being the widest, the 
three terminal joints quite narrow, the apical one almost linear, 
lancet-shaped. ‘Vhorax with a short and very obsolete central 
channel, clothed with golden squamose pubescence, without trace of 
punctuation, the base rather wider than the length. Scutellum 
smoky black. Elytra dull, sordid brick-red ; humeral callosity well 
pronounced; there are four or five obsolete coste or raised 
nervures ; the surface is roughened, but neither punctures nor cells, 
nor indeed rugosities are present, but a close squamose pubescence of 
the colour of the elytra. The body and legs are entirely deep black, 
the breast shining and impunctate, the abdomen dull. 
33. LycocERUS LATERITIUS, sp. nov. 
Niger, parum nitidus ; prothorace elytrisque saturate ochraceis , 
capitis vertice obscure rufo, antennis valde serratis. 
Long. 13-14 millim. 
Hab. India. 
Smaller than L. serricornis, and with the antennze wider and more 
distinctly serrate. The head is darker, being only obscurely red 
behind the eyes above. It is otherwise similarly pubescent. The 
thorax has no dark vitta. 
Two examples in my own collection. 
34. LycocERUS DECIPIENS, Sp. Nov. 
Niger, parum nitidus, supra parcius pilosus ; capite (epistomate 
excepto) prothoraceque rufis, nigro-lineatis, elytris saturate 
ochraceis ; antennis filiformibus. 
Long. 12 millim. 
Hab. N.E. India, Dibru. 
The head is red, excepting the front, before the antenne, and a 
