1S93.] BEiriLES OF THE FAMILY CLERID.i:. 577 



Orthrius, Grorham (Cist, Eat. 1870, p. 74). 

 Oi'tJii'ius was proposed by me for au Australian species {0. 

 ct/linch'icus), a smooth cylindrical ius^ct with only the labial palpi 

 hatchet-shaped at the tip, and the eyes coarse, scarcely cut out. I 

 have since then reco2;nized that man}'- Eastern species placed in 

 A'arious genera should be united with it, though not often so 

 cvlindrical. Clems suhfasclatus, Westwood, Thanasimas sdlatus, 

 Westwood, Opilo sinensis, Grorh., and probably some others cannot 

 be retained in those genera, but will form a homogeneous group 

 under this name. 



Obtheius beachialis, n. sp. 



O. tarsali, Gorh., affinis et summa similiticdine, fcrrufjineus, 

 nitidus, tihiis genicidisr/ue nii/ris, elyU'is suhstriatis perohsolete 

 iniactatis. Lonr/. 10 millini. 



Hah. Assam, Sudiya, Xaga Hills, Patkai Mountains (DoJiertij). 



Yery closely allied to 0. taysaUs, described by me in the ' Annals ' 

 of the Genoa Museum of Natural History for 1892, a species 

 from Burmah, and only diiiei'ing from it in having merely the tips of 

 the femora and the tibise black, whereas in 0. tarscdis the femora 

 and breast are also black. 



The striation and punctuation of the elytra are a little more 

 distinct. The specimen from the Nagas has the antennse a little 

 more inf uscate, and in both it and the other specimens the tarsi 

 have their uppersides dark. A single example from Patkai is not 

 well developed and has the tibiae red, being, in fact, ferruginous all 

 over, but does not, I think, represent another species. 



The femora in this species and its allies are subincrassate, 

 especially the front pair. 



Thakasimus carboxarics, n, sp. 



Ater ; antenmumm articulo ultimo, femorumqtte hasi alho-testaceis, 

 l>rotliorace tuhercidoso-inaquali, eh/iris hasi f/ramdatis tuher- 

 ctdisque nonnuUis seriatim instructis, dimidio ajricali siddtevi, 

 versus apicem fascia ar</enteo-pubescente ad suturam interrupta. 

 LoKKj. 8 milluii. 

 Hah. Manipur (Z'f>Z(fy•^/). 



Coal-black, a little sliiuing; eyes finely granulated, deeply and 

 angularly excised ; antenna; longer than the head and thorax, dull 

 and pubescent, compressed, the three basal joints pitchy, the 

 apical joint acuminate, nearly white, and the one preceding pale, 

 the second joint very short, the third as long as the two basal 

 joints, those following gradually increasing in width, not serrate. 

 The thorax longer than wide, very rugose and uneven, having 

 several tubercles, one of which bf'fore the niiddh' of the base is 

 round and sbining. Elytra not much wider than the thorax, their 

 basal third very rough, with two rows of elongate shar]) tubercles 

 on each, very irregular and often coalescing, the apex smooth, with 

 an oblique fascia-like band of silvery hairs at about a quart»-r 

 fi'om tile apex ; a few scattered hairs are found all over the elytra, 



