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  B. 
  P. 
  UVAROV. 
  

  

  2. 
  Parahierogiyphus 
  colemani, 
  I. 
  Bol. 
  

  

  1912. 
  Hieroceryx 
  colemani, 
  I. 
  Bolivar, 
  Trab. 
  Mus. 
  Madrid, 
  no. 
  6, 
  p. 
  61. 
  

  

  1914. 
  Hieroceryx 
  colemani, 
  Coleman, 
  Journ. 
  Bombay 
  N.H. 
  Soc, 
  xxiii, 
  p. 
  175, 
  plate, 
  

   fig. 
  3. 
  " 
  

  

  As 
  I 
  have 
  already 
  mentioned, 
  the 
  species 
  has 
  been 
  described 
  from 
  a 
  single 
  female, 
  

   and 
  I 
  have 
  before 
  me 
  a 
  single 
  male, 
  which 
  makes 
  its 
  specific 
  identification 
  rather 
  

   uncertain. 
  There 
  is, 
  however, 
  no 
  doubt 
  whatever 
  that 
  my 
  male 
  is 
  specifically 
  distinct 
  

   from 
  P. 
  bilineatus, 
  since 
  the 
  difference 
  in 
  the 
  cerci 
  is 
  very 
  conspicuous 
  ; 
  other 
  differ- 
  

   ences 
  from 
  P. 
  bilineatus 
  indicated 
  in 
  the 
  key 
  agree 
  with 
  the 
  characters 
  used 
  by 
  Bolivar 
  

   to 
  separate 
  the 
  latter 
  from 
  P. 
  colemani 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  figure 
  given 
  by 
  Coleman, 
  so 
  that 
  

   I 
  refer 
  my 
  specimens 
  to 
  that 
  species, 
  although 
  with 
  some 
  doubt. 
  

  

  Specimen 
  studied. 
  — 
  Surat, 
  Bombay, 
  x. 
  1903, 
  1 
  ^(received 
  from 
  Pusa). 
  

  

  Geographical 
  distribution. 
  — 
  Bolivar 
  described 
  the 
  species 
  from 
  Anavatti, 
  in 
  the 
  

   Shimoga 
  district 
  of 
  Mysore 
  ;- 
  my 
  male 
  is 
  from 
  Surat, 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  species 
  may 
  be 
  

   restricted 
  to 
  the 
  Indian 
  peninsula. 
  

  

  Economic 
  importance. 
  — 
  According 
  to 
  Coleman 
  (I.e. 
  p. 
  174) 
  this 
  insect 
  has 
  been 
  

   found 
  in 
  small 
  numbers 
  associated 
  with 
  Hieroglyphus 
  banian 
  in 
  rice-fields 
  at 
  Anavatti. 
  

  

  3. 
  Parahierogiyphus 
  sp. 
  

  

  There 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  Pusa 
  material 
  two 
  females 
  from 
  Pardi, 
  Bombay, 
  23. 
  ix. 
  1904, 
  

   which 
  are 
  clearly 
  not 
  P. 
  bilineatus, 
  but 
  which 
  I 
  hesitate 
  to 
  identify 
  with 
  P. 
  colemani 
  

   either. 
  They 
  are 
  distinctly 
  larger 
  in 
  size 
  than 
  is 
  the 
  female 
  of 
  the 
  latter 
  species, 
  

   according 
  to 
  Bolivar's 
  description, 
  while 
  in 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  the 
  eyes, 
  they 
  

   agree 
  with 
  it, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  can 
  be 
  judged 
  by 
  description. 
  From 
  P. 
  bilineatus, 
  they 
  differ 
  

   in 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  subgenital 
  plate, 
  which 
  has 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  very 
  narrow 
  and 
  not 
  

   longer 
  than 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  middle 
  lobe. 
  I 
  abstain 
  from 
  describing 
  the 
  species 
  as 
  new 
  

   until 
  the 
  male 
  is 
  known. 
  

  

  Genus 
  Hieroglyphodes, 
  nov. 
  

  

  More 
  like 
  Hieroglyphus 
  than 
  Parahierogiyphus 
  , 
  but 
  more 
  closely 
  related 
  to 
  the 
  

   latter. 
  Head 
  large 
  and 
  thick, 
  strongly 
  reclinate. 
  Frontal 
  ridge 
  sulcate 
  throughout, 
  

   with 
  the 
  margins 
  feebly 
  divergent 
  downwards. 
  Fastigium 
  of 
  the 
  vertex 
  distinctly 
  

   sloping, 
  forming 
  an 
  acute 
  rounded 
  angle 
  with 
  the 
  frontal 
  ridge 
  : 
  with 
  a 
  bow-shaped 
  

   transverse 
  sulcus, 
  and 
  a 
  feeble 
  longitudinal 
  carina 
  between 
  the 
  eyes. 
  Pronotum 
  

   cylindrical, 
  slightly 
  narrowed 
  posteriorly 
  ; 
  the 
  transverse 
  sulci 
  well 
  developed, 
  three 
  

   of 
  them 
  cutting 
  the 
  median 
  keel, 
  which 
  is 
  low 
  but 
  well 
  developed 
  throughout 
  ; 
  the 
  

   metazona 
  distinctly 
  longer 
  than 
  half 
  the 
  prozona 
  ; 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtusely 
  angulate. 
  

   Posternal 
  spine 
  acutely 
  conical. 
  Mesosternal 
  lobes 
  subtransverse 
  ; 
  their 
  interspace 
  

   X-shaped, 
  constricted 
  before 
  the 
  middle 
  and 
  strongly 
  widened 
  posteriorly, 
  but 
  the 
  

   lobes 
  not 
  touching 
  each 
  other 
  even 
  in 
  the 
  male. 
  Metasternal 
  lobes 
  touching 
  each 
  

   other 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  and 
  narrowly 
  separated 
  in 
  the 
  female. 
  Elytra 
  abbreviated, 
  of 
  

   the 
  same 
  shape 
  as 
  in 
  Parahierogiyphus. 
  Abdomen 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  with 
  the 
  apex 
  recurved 
  ; 
  

   supra-anal 
  plate 
  rotundato-trapezoidal, 
  with 
  several 
  complicatedly 
  curved 
  obtuse 
  

   ridges 
  ; 
  cerci 
  inflated 
  basally, 
  strongly 
  recurved, 
  with 
  the 
  incrassate 
  apex 
  lying 
  on 
  

   the 
  anal 
  plate 
  ; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  short, 
  strongly 
  recurved. 
  Subgenital 
  plate 
  of 
  the 
  

   female 
  trilobate 
  apically. 
  

  

  Genotype 
  : 
  Hieroglyphodes 
  assamensis, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  1. 
  Hieroglyphodes 
  assamensis, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  (figs. 
  1 
  C, 
  2 
  B, 
  C, 
  D). 
  

  

  c?. 
  Head 
  thicker 
  than 
  pronotum 
  and 
  distinctly 
  longer 
  than 
  prozona 
  of 
  the 
  latter. 
  

   Frontal 
  ridge 
  in 
  profile 
  slightly 
  convex. 
  The 
  foremost 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  fastigium 
  (i.e., 
  

   that 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  the 
  transverse 
  impression) 
  about 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  as 
  long. 
  Eyes 
  

  

  