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Indian Museum Notes. 



[ Vol. III. 



A NEW WOOD BORER. 

 By Oliver E. Janson, F.E.S. 



[ The specimens from wMch this species is described weie said to have been found 

 attacking oak stumps in Deoband, North-Western Provinces, in December 1881. 

 They are referred to the Coleopterous Family Scolytid£B, sub-Family Phitypides. — Ep.] 



Biapus, impressus n. sjJ. — Rufo-brunneus, elytris flavo-testaeeis, 

 apice rufo-brunneis, antennis pedibusque flavis. Capite parce punctato, 

 vertice tri-carinato, carinis nitidis, prothorace oblongOj lateribus emargi- 

 natis, elytris subtiliter punctato-striatis, inters titiis duabus suturalibus 

 ma2:is elevatis. Long. 3| — 4 millimetres. 



S Clypeo utrinque profunde impresso, elytris apice truncatis inertuis. 



$ Clypeo punetato, elytris apice quinque-spiuosis. 



Deoband, Nortb- Western Provinces, India. 



Red-brown, sbining, basal margin of the thorax and the elytra 

 brownish yellow, apical portion of: the latter red-brown ; legs and 

 antennae pale yellow; the knees brownish. Head dull, sparsely punc- 

 tured, three carinas on the vertex, and one on each side behind the eyes 

 shining ; the clypeus, in the male, occupied by two large deep impres- 

 sions separated by a narrow median carina and margined at the base by 

 an obtuse bi-sinuous carina ; in the female sub-ccnvex, coarsely punctured, 

 with a feeble median carina; antennae with the scape broadly pyriform. 

 Thorax oblong, strongly emarginate at the sides before the middle, the 

 basal margin bi-sinuous, a row of hirsute punctures close to the anterior 

 margin, the base finely and closely punctured and with a slight median 

 line. Elytra punctate-striate, the second stria from the suture and the 

 outer marginal one broader and more strongly punctured, the first and 

 second interstices from the suture strongly raised, the fourth slightly 

 convex; the apex coarsely punctured, sub truncate and unarmed iu the 



