TIHYSODES. 



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276. Rhysodes boysi, Arr. 



Rhysodes boysi, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vii, 1901, p. 87. 



Black, shining, depressed ; head triangular, without carinas or 

 lateral channels, but with a diamond- 

 shaped flat space in front, behind which 

 there is a deep circular foramen or 

 large fovea not reaching the base ; an- 

 tennae moderate; pro thorax long, with- 

 out raised costae, but with an entire 

 central furrow, and on each side of 

 this an almost pear-shaped depression, 

 which is very broad at the base, and 

 very narrow just about the middle, 

 where it ceases ; elytra with deeply 

 punctured striae, the fourth interstice 

 strongly raised behind ; anterior femora 

 not toothed in the female. 

 Length 7 millim. 

 Kashmir (?) 



Fig. 232.— Rhysodes boysi. Type in the British Museum. 



The species was described from two 

 females, probably from the Himalayan Kegion ; one of these is in 

 the British Museum, and the other in the Oxford Museum. The 

 male is not known. 



277. Rhysodes aterrimus, Chevr. 



Rhysodes aterrimus, Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (5) iii, 1873, 

 p. 209. 



Rhysodes armatus, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vii, 1901, p. 85. 



Pitchy black, rather dull, cylindrical ; 

 Itead produced behind the eyes, posterior 

 lobes twice approximating on the vertex, 

 anterior elevated space short, constricted 

 in the middle ; at the back of the head is 

 a small punctiform fovea which is distant 

 from the central raised space ; prothorax 

 long, with the sides almost straight, the disc 

 trisulcate, with the external sulci broad and 

 with four almost parallel carina?, the two 

 central ones nearly or actually meeting in 

 front and behind ; elytra with broad punc- 

 tured striae ; smooth parts of the head 

 and prothorax punctured, underside very 

 coarsely punctured; anterior tibiae biden- 

 tate at apex, with a third tooth in the 

 Fig. 233. centre. — Male with the anterior tibiae fur- 



Bhysodes aterrimus. nished with a fourth tooth a little behind 



