PEDEILLIA. 
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pointed ; antennae filiform, the joints short, somewhat triangularly 
widened, the third and fourth rather longer. Thorax scarcely 
broader than long, the sides widened near middle into a more or 
less produced tubercle, the base with transverse sulcus. Elytra 
wider at base than the thorax, irregularly and closely punctured, 
rather convex, parallel, the apex rounded. Eemora rather strongly 
incrassate, tarsi short, claws appendiculate ; anterior coxae nearly 
contiguous, intermediate coxae slightly separated. First ventral 
segment twice the length of second. 
Formerly placed in the Megalopince, with which it has nothing 
in common, as pointed out by Weise. Its true place is near 
Zeugophora, from which it differs but little. 
16. Pedrillia longicornis, Westio. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) ii, 1864, p. 280. 
Fulvous above, black beneath ; antennae long and slender; head 
impunctate ; thorax finely and remotely punctured, the sides 
tuberculate ; elytra more strongly and closely punctured, clothed 
with long fulvous pubescence. 
Head broad, entirely impunctate ; mandibles robust, fulvous, the 
tips black ; eyes deeply notched ; antennae extending to the middle 
of the elytra, black, the first joint fulvous, the fourth the longest, 
following joints subquadrately widened, slightly longer than broad. 
Thorax half as long as broad, strongly and abruptly constricted 
at the base, the anterior portion produced into a broad tubercle at 
the sides ; the surface finely and remotely punctured, reddish- 
fulvous, shining, clothed with long fulvous hairs. Elytra rather 
long, widened and thickened posteriorly but very gradually, the 
puncturation much more distinct and close than that of the thorax, 
the interstices furnished with long fulvous hairs. Beneath and 
the legs black or piceous. 
Length 4 mm. 
Ilah. India. 
The antennae in this species are, as the name implies, propor- 
tionately long, and the tubercle at the sides of the thorax is blunt 
and broad ; specimens occur in which the entire head and thorax 
are black. 
17. Pedrillia murrayi, Clark , App. Cat. PJvytoph. 1866, p. 87. 
Zeugophora apicalis, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. xxxix, 1866, p. 406. 
Very similar to P. longicornis, but clearly differentiated by the 
black band at the apex of the elytra, the upper edge of which is 
concave ; another difference is the greater amount of constriction 
of the thorax in P. murrayi , this is deeper and more marked than 
in the continental Indian species ; whether the antennae likewise 
differ I am not able to say, since in all the specimens before me 
only two or three joints are present, the rest being broken off. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hah. Ceylon. Type in Brit. Mus., also obtained by Doherty. 
