790 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1911. 
p. 136. 
Proreus cunctator, sp. n. 
Size small: build stout: general colour tawny and black. 
Antennae 14—15 segmentate : first segment black, stout, and 
long; third slenderand cylindrical, not very long, fourth nearly 
as long as third, the rest a little longer, all slender and sub- . 
cylindrical, the segments near the base tawny, each one darker 
at the apex, the rest all dark-brown. 
Head black, smooth, sutures not distinct, rather flattened, 
occiput and posterior margin somewhat tumid. 
Pronotum orange-red, a little longer than broad, parallel- 
sided, truncate anteriorly, posterior margin gently rounded, 
Elytra short, scarcely longer than the pronotum, truncate 
posteriorly, orange-yellow, but an indistinct narrow fuscous 
band along the suture and costal margin. 
Wings hidden. 
Legs tawny. 
Abdomen black, dilated, closely, and finely punctulate. _ 
Last dorsal segment transverse, short; posterior margm 
truncate, rather thickened, with a short, conical, mmu 
tubercle above on each side of the middle. a 
Penultimate ventral segment broadly rounded, with 
faint median emargination. 
ygidium not prominent, with a vertical face. 
Forceps with the branches remote, depressed, not trigonal, 
stout, and strongly arcuate with two minute teeth about the 
middle on the inner margin. 
Only cyclolabia form of ¢ known— 2? unknown. 
3 
Long. corporis es 55—7 mm. 
» forcipis vs 1:5—1°75. 
Inpia: Assam-Bhutan frontier: Darrang District, = 
26-xii-10 (S.W. Kemp, 2 ¢ in Indian Museum No. 8587/1 
8591/16). 
and the sculpture of the abdomen more dense and clear. the 
e macrolabious form of the male, and also of a 
female, are unknown. Possibly there may be a macroptere 
form, which would still more resemble P. melanocephalus, nt 
in this case probably the pronotum would be gently widen 
posteriorly, 
