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Show 1889.] COLEOPTERA OF THE FAMILY TELEPHORID^E. 99 One specimen. Var. ? Body beneath, coxse, trochanters, and base of the thighs yellow. Hab. Khasia Hills. One specimen. I cannot from the single specimens before me determine whether these are distinct species, the structure appears to be the same in both. 7. TELEPHORUS SEMIUSTUS, sp. nov. Nigro-subcinereus ; capitis fronte, antennarum articulo primo, prothorace femoribusque anticis et intermediis basi flavis ; elytris sordide lividis, pubescentibus, basi nitidis nigro-plumbeis. Long. 9-10 millim. Hab. India : Assam, Sibsaugor (Major Godwin-Austen). A feebly built, soft-looking species, which will be easily recognized by its peculiar coloration. The head is black and shining, the front from the insertion of the antennse, and underside excepting the cheeks, yellow ; the antennse ashy grey, yellowish at the base, the palpi fuscous. The thorax is suborbiculate, wider than long, impunctate and shining, the lateral margins and the base gently reflexed. The elytra appear to be very soft in texture, being shrivelled in all the specimens ; they are granulosely-subrugose, of a pale sordid yellow, indeterminately black at the base, the rather strongly raised shoulders being shining black. The body is ashy grey, the abdomen nearly black. Legs black, the front coxse and femora excepting at their tips, and the middle femora at the base for half the length, and their coxse internally, yellow. Three specimens in m y own collection, and one in the Calcutta Museum. 8. TELEPHORUS STYGIANUS, sp. nov. Ater, nitidus; elytris subrugulosis, sutura margineque laterali tenuissime albis; abdominis segmentis singulis albo-marginatis. Long. 7 | millim. 6* 2 • Mas. Segmentis tribus ultimis ventralibus divisis et imbricatis, prothoracis margine laterali infra medium plicato. Fern. Segmento sexto ventrali bifossulato et leevigato. Hab. South India (Mus. Calcutta), Mt. Kodeicanel (J. Gastets). The antennse are rather long in the male, being about the length of the body, those of the female are shorter. The mandibles are pitchy red. The thorax about as long as wide, none of the angles distinct, but the margin is raised and a little thickened at the front, plicate a little below the middle of the side, forming in the male a narrow notch, below which the margin is bidentate ; but this structure is not apparent in one of the two specimens of that sex nor in the female. The apical ventral plates of the male have their two halves somewhat inclined so as to form a V, and are divided in the middle much as in the Central-American genus Discodon, Gorh. It is probable that a new genus will have to be proposed for the present insect and its allies in the east. |
