294 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. XXIV, 



Ceylon and S. India. 



" This is by far the commonest beetle on the island. In the 

 rainy season it is to be found literally in thousands under stones 

 and particularly behind pictures, under articles of furniture, and 

 in dark corners in the bungalow. In winter a few individuals can 

 always be discovered under stones. It is the species I have 

 referred to (Rec. Ind. Mus. XXII, p. 318) as being mutilated by 

 the ant Phidole rhombinoda and stored by it as provender in a 

 limbless but living condition." [N. Annandale.] 



Artactes gravelyi, sp. nov. 



Shortly oblong, nitid, black, with the elytra metallic and 

 iridescent. Head and thorax finely, not very closely, punctate, 

 the latter about twice as wide at the base as at the apex, the 

 median part of the base projecting considerably behind the basal 

 angles, the sides with a strong marginal sulcus continued as a fine 

 line along the anterior margin. Elytra striate-punctate. , the 

 punctures somewhat irregular in size, not very closely placed, and 

 the intervals fiat ; shoulders rounded, the lateral carina strongly 

 prominent almost to apex ; colour shining black with a faint 

 aeneous tinge, with a patch formed of concentric iridescent bands 

 behind the shoulders, and another externally at the apex ; these 

 bands of colour have a connecting strip of the same along the 6th 

 interval leaving an external lateral patch blackish. Underside 

 black, antennae, palpi and tarsi reddish. Length 8 mm. 



1 ex., i5-22 - viri6 (F.H. Gravely). 



This is of interest as being the first species of Artactes to be 

 recorded from India proper, the genus being essentially Indo- 

 Malayan. A. gravelyi is at once distinguished by its black head 

 and thorax and comparatively sombre colouration. 



Camarimena renardii Fairm. 



Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. XXXVIII, 1894, p. 25. 



4 ex., 15-22 viri6 (F. H. Gravely). 



This insect, with which Fairmaire's description agrees tolerably 

 well, is allied to C. rugosistriata mihi, but more elongate, the 

 thorax less markedly narrower than the elytra, the striae of the 

 latter more even, the punctures regularly crenulating the inter- 

 vals; the femora much more strongly clavate, etc. 



C. renardii was described from Konbir, Chota Nagpur. 



Hoplobrachium dentipes F. 



Fabricius, Spec. Ins. I. 1787, p. 326. 

 Helops ebenimts Walk. 

 Hoplobrachium asperipeuue Fairm. 



r ex., 15-22" vii* 16 and 1 ex., 3-iO"viiiio, (/•'. H. Gravely). 

 Described originally as ' Helops dentipes ' from Coromandel, 

 later as Helops ebeninus Walk., from Ce5 7 lon, this species appears 



