1889.] COLEOPTERA OF THE FAMILY TELEPHORID^. 99 



One specimen. 



Var. t Body beneath, coxae, 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. 



/ 7. Telephorus semiustus, sp. nov. 



Nigro-subcinereus ; capitis fronte, antennarum articuloprimo,pro- 

 thorace femoribusque anticis et intermediis basi jlavis ; 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 antennae, and underside excepting the 

 cheeks, yellow ; the antennae 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 coxse and 

 femora excepting at their tips, and the middle femora at the base 

 for half the length, and their coxae internally, yellow. 



Three specimens in my own collection, and one in the Calcutta 

 Museum. 



8. Telephorus stygianus, sp. nov. 



/ 



Ater, nitidus; elytris subruguLosis, sutura maryineque laterali 

 tenuissime albis ; abdominis segmentis singulis albo-marginatis. 



Long. 7g millim. S ? . 



Mas. Segmentis tribus ultimis ventralibus divisis et imbricatis, 

 prothoracis margins laterali infra medium plicato. 



Fem. Segmento sexto ventrali bifossulato et Icevigato. 



Hab. South India {Mus. Calcutta), Mt. Kodeicanel (/. Oastets). 



The antennae 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 

 narrow notch, 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. 



