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Show 1889.] COLEOPTERA OF THE FAMILY TELEPHORIDiE. 109 adpressed pubescence, which is thickest at the hind angles, these latter are acute but not projecting. The body beneath does not, so far as I can at present ascertain, present any difference from that of other Telephoridas, and is very simple, and I cannot at present find any indication of the sexual distinction. The Lycoceri are plain, if, indeed, they may not be termed ugly insects, of a pale brick-red or smoky-black colour, without any brilliancy or pattern to relieve them, and their integuments are so soft that all the examples I have yet seen are shrivelled and distorted. 32. LYCOCERUS SERRICORNIS, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. 10.) Niger; corpore nitido, supra subsquamoso-pubescens ; capitis vertice, prothorace (vitta mediana parum distincta preetermissa) elytris-que rufis; antennis serratis. Long. 15-17 millim. Hab. N.E. India (coll. Gorham) ; Assam, Sibsaugor (Mus. Calcutta) ; Burroi Dunseri valley (Major Godwin-Austen). Crown of the head ochraceous, clothed with golden hair. Antennse with the basal joint stout, pear-shaped, the thickest end towards the second joint, which is short and obconic, the third to the sixth joints a little longer than wide, the fourth and fifth being the widest, the three terminal joints quite narrow, the apical one almost linear, lancet-shaped. Thorax with a short and very obsolete central channel, clothed with golden squamose pubescence, without trace of punctuation, the base rather wider than the length. Scutellum smoky black. Elytra dull, sordid brick-red ; humeral callosity well pronounced; there are four or five obsolete costse or raised nervures ; the surface is roughened, but neither punctures nor cells, nor indeed rugosities are present, but a close squamose pubescence of the colour of the elytra. The body and legs are entirely deep black, the breast shining and impunctate, the abdomen dull. 33. LYCOCERUS LATERITIUS, sp. nov. Niger, parum nitidus; prothorace eiytrisque saturate ochraceiscapitis vertice obscure rufo, antennis valde serratis. Long. 13-14 millim. Hab. India. Smaller than L. serricornis, and with the antennas wider and more distinctly serrate. The head is darker, being only obscurely red behind the eyes above. It is otherwise similarly pubescent. The thorax has no dark vitta. Two examples in m y own collection. 34. LYCOCERUS DECIPIENS, sp. nov. Niger, parum nitidus, supra parcius pilosus; capite (epistomate excepto) prothoraceque rufis, nigro-lineatis, elytris saturate ochraceis; antennis filiformibus. Long. 12 millim. Hab. N.E. India, Dibru. The head is red, excepting the front, before the antennas, and a |
