2Qo Records oj the Indian Museum. [Vol. XXIV, 



Pseudoblaps barkudensis, sp. nov. 



Oblong, rather strongly convex, black, moderately nitid, with 

 the antennae and legs piceous. Head densely and strongly punc- 

 tured, moderately convex between the eyes, with a deep sulcus 

 bordering the latter ; clypeal suture obsolete, marked only by a 

 feeble depression. Antennae extending slightly beyond middle of 

 thorax, with a fine golden pubescence, 3rd joint about twice as 

 long as wide, scarcely longer than the 4th, the rest successively 

 shorter and wider, 10th twice as wide as long. Thorax trans- 

 verse, widest in the middle, the sides arcuate, the base scarcely 

 wider than the apex, all angles subrectangular, lateral margins 

 rather wide and thickened, anterior margin fine and widely 

 interrupted in the middle ; disc evenly convex, strongly punctured 

 throughout. Elytra less than i£ times as long as together wide, 

 widest behind the middle, shoulders rounded, with the lateral 

 carina prominent near the base but soon concealed (viewed from 

 above) by the convexity of the outer interstices ; striae impressed 

 with rather large punctures not very closely placed, intervals con- 

 vex, rather finely punctate; the striae combine towards the apex 

 as follows: 4th and 5th, 3rd and 6th, 2nd and 7th, 1st and 

 9th, the 8th ending about the level of the 4th and 5th. Iyength 

 11 mm. 



5 ex., i5-22"viri6 ; 4 ex., 3-io/viii , i9 ; 1 ex., 4-i9"x , i9 (F. H. 

 Gravely). 



All the specimens appear to be female. The species resembles 

 P. javanus Wied., but is smaller, more nitid and more convex, with 

 the striae uniting differently towards the apex. 



Pachypterus indicus, sp. nov. (F. Bates, M.S.) 



Elongate, oblong, piceous brown, clothed above with moderate- 

 ly long sub-erect hairs the surface usually concealed with an earthy 

 indument. Head short, transverse, strongly declivous and scarcely 

 visible when the insect is viewed from above; eyes transversely 

 oval, almost divided by the canthus; antennae slender, scarcely 

 thickened towards apex, and reaching almost to the base of the 

 thorax. Thorax feebly transverse, widest in front of the middle, 

 the sides rounded and finely denticulate, anterior angles rectangular, 

 posterior angles obtuse but distinct ; disc convex, densely rugose 

 punctate with feebly developed setigerous tubercles. Elytra 

 elongate ovate, scarcely as wide as the thorax, becoming feebly wider 

 from the base to behind the middle, the shoulders obtuse ; striae 

 moderately distinct, intervals feebly convex, set with setigerous 

 granules throughout ; epipleura suddenly reduced just beyond base 

 of last ventral segment. Femora rather thick, clavate densely 

 rugose-punctate, tibiae slender, feebly sinuate, with the inner 

 apical angle produced, anterior tibiae not carinate along outer 

 side, the exterior apical angle acute but scarcely produced. 



The male has the first three joints of the anterior tarsi feebly 



