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Indian Forest Records. 
[ VOL. VII 
Fpistoma concave, projected over the clypeus and at the lateral angles 
which are snbacute; front raised into a more or less denticulate, over¬ 
hanging carina, which extends obliquely forward from behind the dorsal 
condyles and ends in two prominent teeth on either side of the median 
suture; Postcondylar carina broadly curved and finely aciculate at the 
edge enclosing a shallow impression which is radially striate. 
Antennal scrobes elevated on inner side, broadly open postero-laterally. 
Antennae (contracted in all specimens examined) basal joint nearly twice 
as wide as 2nd joint; the latter cylindrical, short; 3rd joint conical, 
obliquely truncate at apex. Pleurostoma with a curved carina, posterior 
to which is a shallow furrow. 
Subfossal process a prominent conical tooth. 
Clypeus transverse, trapezoidal, narrowing slightly apically ; If to 2 
times as broad as long. 
labrum broadly ovate, flattened; at its greatest width as broad as the 
apical margin of the clypeus, and about 1J times as long as clypeus, 
margined anteriorly with reddish bristles, disc with fairly numerous 
punctures bearing longer hairs, median area bare. 
Mandibles rugosely tuberculate in basal half, more or less striate and 
carinate in apical half, apex acute. 
PROTHOBAX. Breadth about 1§ times that of segment 8; nearly 
twice as broad as long, declivous dorsally. 
Pronotal plate, subrectangular, twice as broad as long, sides rounded, 
vermiculate in posterior half, transversally aciculate along median anterior 
border, sparsely punctate, the punctures piliferous; a median impressed 
line extends longitudinally for a short distance on either side of the 
anterior margin of the plate and terminates about the middle of the disc 
in an elongate group of punctures; an oblique impression runs from the 
middle of each side downwards to near the posterior margin. 
Sides of Prothorax, deltoidal, convex, scantily punctate and pilose. 
Prosternum, eusternal area not entirely distinct; an oblique suture 
traverses the posterior angle, in front of the leg; above each basal angle 
of the presternum a triangular rugose pad bounded behind by the 
evanescent intersternal suture. 
Thoracic spiracle, ellipsoidal, 1^ times as long as that on the 1st 
abdominal segment. 
ABDOMEN. Ambulatory ampullae, without tubercles but narrowly 
aciculate along the sutures and occasionally punctate; dorsal series with 
the paired impressions parallel on the 3rd—6th segments, slightly 
curved backwards on the 7th segment; ventral series arched forwards on 
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