go Indian Museum Notes, [Vol. VI» 



7. LichenopJianes khmerensis, Lesne. 



Lesne, 1896, An. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1896, p. 511. Ibid. 1898, 473. 

 ? carinatus Lewis, 1896, An. Nat. Hist., 6, XVII, p. 339. 



Elongate, parallel, the elytra slightly widened behind ; brown 



splashed with red. Forehead fairly densely granulate and only slightly 



pubescent in front. Frontal clypeal suture indistinct on the sides, 



well marked in the middle. Epistome granulate and pubescent, 



without long hairs, the anterior angles widely rounded. The eyes 



■with a sharp angle behind. The golden blotches of velvety hair 



upon the divisions of the antennal club well marked. Prothorax 



well rounded on its sides, narrowed in front and behind, its anterior 



angles prominent, pointed, but wide and depressed, the posterior 



angles prominent and pointed. Pronotum slightly excavated above 



its anterior edge ; the prominent lateral teeth of the rasp 4 or 5 in 



number ; the posterior space studded with big rounded granules and 



having a median central area smooth and shining down the middle 



of which a fine channel runs almost the whole length of the posterior 



space. Pubescence of the pronotum rufous, fairly dense. Elytra 



strongly and densely punctuate, subgranulous in the interspaces. 



Apical declivity without marginal tubercles, the apical angle being 



simple ; suture well marked and hardly conspicuous on the declivity. 



Elvtral pubescence placed in patches of varying size, longitudinally 



compressed ; the hairs of which these patches consist are pressed down 



flat upon the integument. Punctuation and pubescence of the abdomen 



fine and dense. The second joint of the anterior tarsus is much 



shorter than the last,, second and fifth joints of the posterior tarsus are 



sub-equal. Long. 9-1 1 J mill.. 



Distribution. — The British Museum contains one specimen from 



the Andaman Islands. 



Unrepresented in Coll. Ind. Mus., etc. 



A closely allied species as yet insufficiently known. — Bostrichus 



carinatus, Lewis {sub A pate), named from a single individual from 



the Andaman Islands (Coll. Gorham) is closely allied to khmerensis. 



It is larger, has not the central shining space with its fine channel 



on the posterior surface of the pronotum and has the sides of the 



thorax, according to the original description, parallel and is 13 millim, 



in length. 



Genus ScJiistOCeros, Lesne. 



Lesne, Rev. des Bostr. 3 Mem. in An. Soc. Ent. Fr., Vol. LXVII, p. 502 



(1898). 

 Amphicerus Leconte, 1861, Class. Col. N. Amer., p. 208. {parti m). — Horn, 



1878, Proc. An. Phil. Soc, XVII, p. 541 et 546. 

 Ccenophrada Waterhouse,' 1888, An. Nat. Hist., 1888, I, p. 350 {ad part 



