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sided ; the eyes are much less prominent, deepest in the 

 middle, and with the posterior edge not [jrodueed outAvards ; 

 the prothorax is even more strongly rounded at the sides, 

 bn)adest \Yell before the middle, eoarsely punctate and with 

 only inconspicuous granules ; the elytra are less distinctly 

 granulate ami the scales are much longer_, being at least 

 three or tour times as long as broad ; the hind tibiaj are not 

 sinuate dorsally, and the ascending portion ot" the corbel is 

 distinctly longer than the apical part. 



Protostrophus indotatus^ sp. n. 



(^ ? . Integument black, rather thinly clothed with 

 scaling; the elytra dorsally with grey or brownish scales 

 (often with a metallic retiection), usually unitbrm, but 

 sometimes mottled with faint darker spots, but the inflexed 

 margins beyond stria 7 entirely bare and shiny ; the pro- 

 notum darker, with extremely indefinite pale dorsal stripes ; 

 the lower surface thinly clothed with narrow pale scales and 

 setce, except for a dense patch of small pale scales on the 

 metepisternum. 



Head coarsely and shallowly punctate, with a broad 

 deep median sulcus, and separated from the rostrum by 

 a gently curved, short, deep furrow ; the scaling sparse, 

 the setae flattened and obliquely raised ; the eyes rather 

 strongly produced backwards, deepest a little behind the 

 middle, and the orbit not projecting on the posterior edge. 

 Rostrum (excluding the mandibles) a little shorter than the 

 basal width and with the sides gently sinuate; the dorsum 

 quite flat, punctate like the head and without any definite 

 carina. Antennce ferruginous, the distal half of the funicle 

 sometimes darker ; the funicle with joint 1 nearly twice as 

 long as 2, joints 3-6 moniliform and slightly transverse, 7 a 

 little longer and broader. Prothorax broader than long 

 (3:2), equally broad at base and apex, strongly rounded at 

 the sides, widest at or a little before the middle ; the apical 

 margin trnncate or feebly sinuate in the middle and sloping 

 gently backward on each sid(^, the base similarly trnncate 

 or sinuate in the middle but cur\ing more strongly forward 

 on each side, the basal angle being distinct ; the dorsum 

 with large shallow confluent punctures, readily visible 

 through the scaling, and a well-defined, shallowly and flnely 

 punctate, smooth median line, extending from the base 

 nearly to the apex ; the setie pale brownish, flattened, sub- 

 recumbent, and with the apex truncate. Elytra broadly 

 ovate, widest a little before the middle, truncate at the base. 



