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a deep, broad, transverse impression, and in the elytral sculpture, 
the interspaces being convex and appearing as ridges. The 
general shape of this beetle is also quite different. Pharaxonotha 
kirshi is a slightly larger, more elongate species, and is usually 
darker in colouring and more polished, being very shiny. In des- 
cribing the genus Pharaxonotha in the volume of the Fauna of 
British India dealing with the Erotylidse, Mr. Arrow states that 
the genus forms a link with the Cryptophagidse, but that the 
stridulatory files and thoracic fovese associate it with the Lan- 
guriidse. In both P. kirshi and P. zamice faint traces of these 
longitudinal lines behind the occipital line are to be found. Dr. 
A. G. Boving has shown me his unpublished drawings of the 
larvae of Languria and the Pharaxonotha here described. The 
mouthparts of both are very similar and somewhat unlike the 
Cryptophagidse. In some other respects Pharaxonotha is more 
like the Cryptophagidse, and in the number of its ocelli* it is like 
neither Languria nor the Cryptophagidse. 
