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erect hairs upon the front clypeal region. Funiculus of antennae not 

 fringed with hair. Second article of the club about one and a half 

 times as wide as long, rounded on the inner angle. The teeth of the 

 marginal row of the rasp-like anterior portion of the prothorax are 

 not^rounded, pointed at the tips, well separated from each other and 

 10 in number, the middle ones more prominent than the outer* 

 Scutellum very shining, transversely keel-shaped. Punctuations 

 confluent and areolate over the whole surface of the elytra except at 

 the extreme base ; the suture is bordered on each side on the declivity 

 by a slight ridge. Closely allied to D. bifoveolatus but is bigger 

 and has a shorter prothorax. Long. 3 \ millim. 



Distribution. — Deccan, Trichinopoly, Madura, 



Unrepresented in above collections. 



Life-History. — I can find no notes upon the life-history of this 

 species. 



4. Dinoderous minutus, Fabr, 



Fabricius, 1775, Syst. Ent., p. 45. 



Olivier, 1790, Enc. meth., Ins., V, p. ill. 



Id., 1795, Ent., IV, No. 77, p, 15, pi. II, f. 12. 



substriatus Stephens, 1830, 111. Brit. Ent., Ill, p. 352. 



siculus Baudi, 1873, Berl. Ent. Zeit., XVII, p. 336. 



Id., 1873, Ann. Mus. Gen., 1873, p. 265. 



bifoveolatus Zoufal (non Wollaston), 1894, Wien. ent. Zeit,, XIII, p. 42. 



Dinoderus sp. Ind. Mus. Not. Vol. I. Steb. Inj. Ins. Ind. For., p. 42. 



Slightly elongated, brown with the dorsal portions of the bases 

 of the elytra lighter-coloured, occasionally almost reddish. The 

 stiff hairs on the front clypeal region always few in number and very 

 short. Antennae 10-jointed, the funiculus not fringed with hair ', 

 the second joint of the club less than one and a half times as 

 wide as long. The teeth of the marginal row of the rasp-like anterior 

 portion of the prothorax are more or less pointed at their tips, not 

 set very close together, the middle ones more prominent than 

 the side ones. Posterior portion of the sides of the pronotum 

 strongly and thickly punctuate, but the punctures do not join 

 and are finely ocellated ; median foveoles are well marked. The 

 scutellum is dull and not keel-shaped. Elytra bristling with short 

 reddish hairs becoming denser on the posterior declivities; when 

 sufficiently magnified these hairs are thick, pyriform, and very pointed 

 at their tips. Elytra thickly and densely punctuate, thicker and deeper 



'The Bosirichus vertens Walker, 1859 (Ann. Nat. Hist., 1859, Vol. Ill, 

 p. 260) of Ceylon is a Dinoderus probably identical with either minutus or brevis. 



