CLINIDIUM. 



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Genus CLINIDIUM. 

 Clinidium, Kirby, Zool. Journ. v, 1835, p. 6. 

 Type, C. guildingi, Kirby. 



This genus has the eyes elongate and much more finely granu- 

 lated than in Rhysodes, Dalm. There seems however to be no 

 particularly strong reason for its separation, and we might, with 

 quite as good reason, raise the subgenus Shy r odes, with its small 

 prominent eyes, to generic rank. 



Key to the Species, 



I. Furrows of the prothorax on each side 

 of the central furrow not reaching the 



apex (subgen. Clinidium, s. s.) apertum, Ileitt., p. 511. 



II. Furrows of the prothorax on each side 

 of the central furrow entire (subgen. 

 Rhysodiastes , Fairm . ) . 



1. Central furrow of prothorax excavate 



at a third from the base fairmairei, Grouv., p. 511. 



2. Central furrow not excavate at a third 



from base waterhousei, Grouv., p. 512. 



287. Clinidium apertum, Reitt. 



Clinidium apertum, Reitter, Yerh. Nat. Ver. Briinn. xviii. 1880, 

 p. 29. 



Dark pitchy, shining, with the elytra reddish ; head almost as 

 long as broad, with the posterior lobes distinct, and with two deep 

 furrows enclosing a diamond-shaped space in front ; antenna 

 moniliform, with the joints scarcely transverse ; prothorax long, 

 with the sides somewhat rounded and with seven furrows or 

 channelled striae, the central dorsal one deep, reaching both base 

 and apex, the four lateral narrow and approximate to one another 

 and to the margin, also reaching base and apex ; in the space 

 between these there are at the base two short broad furrows, which 

 are widened behind and cease behind the middle ; elytra usually 

 reddish, with deep sulcate striae which are scarcely punctured and 

 the interstices more or less raised, the humeral angles large and 

 produced into a projecting lobe. 



Length 7 millim. 



Himalayas. 



Type in Eeitters collection. 



288. Clinidium fairmairei, Grouv. 



Clinidium (Rhysodiastes) fairmairei, Grouvelle. Ann. Mus. Genova 

 (2) xiv, 1895, p. 762. 



Shining black ; head elongate, with four longitudinal furrows, 

 the external ones being straight and the internal ones curved and 

 enclosing an elongate space which is foveolate in front and at the 



