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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 Telephoridae, 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 preetermissd) elytris- 

 que rufis ; antennis serratis. 



Long. 15-17 millim. 



Hab. N.E. India {coll. Gorham) ; Assam, Sibsaugor {Mus. 

 Calcutta) ; Burroi Dunseri valley {Major Godwin- Austen). 



Crown of the head ochraceous, clothed with golden hair. Antennae 

 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. Thorax with a short and very obsolete central 

 channel, clothed with golden squamose pubescence, without trace of 

 punctuation, the base rather wider than the length. Scutelluni 

 smoky black. Elytra dull, sordid brick-red ; humeral callosity well 

 pronounced ; there are four or five obsolete costse 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 i 

 capitis vertice obscure rufo, antennis valde serratis. 



Long. 13-14 millim. 



Hab. India. 



Smaller than L. serricornis, and with the antennas 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 

 ewcepto) 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 antennae, and a 



